The Denver Nuggets got back on track Wednesday night with a tight 123-118 win over the Memphis Grizzlies that was defined by both crucial performances from center Nikola Jokic and guard Jamal Murray, but they weren't the only ones who came up big for Denver.

Forward Cameron Johnson, partially informed by Murray entering into foul trouble somewhat early in the game, was far more aggressive against the Grizzlies than he'd been at any point this season and that aggressiveness translated into big scoring.

Johnson netted 23 points while shooting 9-15 from the field and he added four rebounds and three assists on top of it.

But Johnson wasn't the only Nugget who was willing to let it fly against the Grizzlies. Denver was both efficient from the field at 50%, but the Nuggets were also eager to get shots off, totaling 98 attempts from the field and 38 from three, a welcome departure from the hesitancy that head coach David Adelman feared was creeping into his team.

"Watching our guys tonight, I didn't feel like at any timeout I had to say, 'Just play! Just hoop!'" Adelman said (via Nuggets). "They were just hooping out there. Open man wins, we say that all the time, and they did that tonight."

As recently as the Nuggets' last loss, a 110-100 defeat to the Houston Rockets, Adelman beseeched his team to get their confidence back. In that game, he felt like the Nuggets knocked themselves out of rhythm after a handful of poor shooting performances and in turn were turning away from wide open shots. 

After that game, he publicly declared that no one on his team would lose minutes for missing open shots and that he would rather see them take a shot and miss than dribble themselves away from an open look out of fear. 

That message has seemingly been taken to heart and the Nuggets are once again feeling confident and aggressive about what they can do with an open look. That's a huge development for the team if it sticks because despite the Nuggets' struggles to open the season, the talent to be a real threat in the league is still there, it just needs to be utilized.

That confidence is certainly helped by the kind of night that both Jokic and Murray had as they are the tone-setters for the team and will be so long as they each wear a Denver uniform, but an wide-reaching mentality of confidence can only mean good things for the Nuggets.

There's still a lot to do before the Nuggets get back to the form that made them one of the contending teams of last season, but a win against a tough Grizzlies squad is itself both evidence of the strides the Nuggets have made and another great way to instill more confidence in a team that Adelman wants to see shoot often.