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DENVER(AP) The high-flying, high-scoring Denver Nuggets didn't leave town with Allen Iverson, after all.

Although the new model features a stingy defense and an effective halfcourt offense engineered by Chauncey Billups, there's still some pop left in the lineup to light up the scoreboards.

Linas Kleiza scored 25 points and Carmelo Anthony had 17 and the Nuggets whipped Milwaukee 114-105 Tuesday night.

The Nuggets got double-digit scoring from all their starters, plus Kleiza and Renaldo Balkman, and they beat their season high in total points, 113 in overtime against the Clippers on Oct. 31.

This was Denver's sixth win in seven games since acquiring Billups, the classic point guard that Detroit gave up to get A.I. back East.

Aside from a big win at Boston last week, those victories have come against sub-.500 teams still searching for an identity in the young season, and truer tests are coming, starting Wednesday night at San Antonio, where the Spurs have righted the ship after struggling without injured stars Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker.

Although they won three of them, the Nuggets, hadn't topped 100 points in four straight games, a stark contrast to the two years Iverson wore a Nuggets uniform and Denver ran up and down the court trying to just outscore their opponents.

The Bucks, who got 25 points from Charlie Bell, played their eighth straight game without star Michael Redd (ankle) and their third straight without starting power forward Charlie Villanueva (hamstring), and the Nuggets took advantage early on, building a 64-50 halftime lead.

They piled up an 18-2 advantage in fast breaks in the first half, including a rim-rattler by Balkman on a steal-and-slam that had the Pepsi Center rocking just like it used to during Iverson's short stint in the Rockies.

Balkman left the game in the fourth quarter after spraining his right ankle.

The Nuggets were 40-for-48 from the free throw line, Milwaukee 19 of 24.

Notes: Denver G Chucky Atkins made his debut after missing the first 10 games with a right knee injury. He missed 50 games last season. ... Nuggets coach George Karl lamented the timing of Joe Wolf's move from the Denver organization to Milwaukee to serve as Bucks coach Scott Skiles' assistant. Karl said that had he known he was going to lose two of his own assistants last summer, Wolf would have been at the top of his list for a promotion after serving as coach of the D-League's Colorado 14ers the last two seasons.

Skiles

“We were just incredibly soft pretty much from beginning to end.  We were hanging close early in the game, but we were making some shots and you could feel that at any moment that they wanted to they could just step on it and blow right by us.  It was an unacceptable performance.  We’ve got a game tomorrow night and we got to try to bounce back.  From the moment the ball went up we just didn’t have anything from a lot of guys.  We have got to have a lot from a lot of guys; we just didn’t have it tonight.” 

Jefferson

“We were a step slow today.  We let them get to the line.  We got through and play every new player and new team.  This is a new defense and when you guard certain players, certain ways for years, now you are adjusting to it and I haven’t done a very good job with that.  I haven’t played well the last week or so.  Even the game before this, I got into foul trouble early and when you are short handed you have to be ready to play early and we can’t make those types of mistakes.  It’s frustrating when you are done in the first half and I have to apologize to my teammates because I haven’t played well the last few games.  I got to pick it up for them, not put more on my shoulders, but more carry my weight.  I don’t feel I have done that the last couple games.”

Bell

“They attacked every time.  Every time that we made a basket they did a good job getting the ball out quick.  Getting back down they didn’t hang their heads when we scored, they were just right back on the attack trying to score back on us.  We didn’t do a good job getting back on defense and when they are that aggressive and we are not getting back on defense and they are attacking the basket like that, it’s going to be easy to draw a foul.  We have been fouling a lot this season and we have to do a better job.”