Nuggets point guard Chauncey Billups hasn't been scoring much as of late.

From Nov. 13-20, Billups averaged just 6.0 points per game.

Since then, he's stepped it up to 19.3 points in four games.

"Well, I think we're better when I'm looking to score, especially early, because it puts so much pressure on the defense," Billups said. "I'll do it sometimes and sometimes I won't. In the last week or so I haven't been because I'm trying to allow some of the other guys to put their imprint on (the game).

"If I have to take a step back sometimes and do that, as long as I'm not jeopardizing the win, I don't mind that. But I knew coming into (Friday's) game that I was going to be aggressive from the jump. I was going to be aggressive, get us in a good aggressive mode and see what happens."

When his scoring numbers dipped, Billups simply wasn't attempting many shots.

"It's funny because people were saying I was struggling," Billups said. "I wasn't struggling, I was shooting five or six shots, making two or three. Struggling is 6-for-20, 5-for-16; that's struggling. I wasn't struggling at all. I just wasn't being aggressive.

"There are games I play with myself throughout the course of the season, trying to pick up certain guys' confidence, trying to open up the door for some other guys to take a bigger piece of the pie. Just small things like that, that I learned to do over the years. So I don't really listen to the 'He's struggling,' or 'He's got five points' or whatever. That's cool. When I want to put my foot on the pedal, this is what I can do all the time."