Who is to blame for the Denver Nuggets disappointing season? | DNVR Nuggets Podcast
Who’s to blame for the Denver Nuggets’ disappointing season? Jamal Murray? Michael Malone? Someone else? The DNVR Nuggets podcast goes on a Witch Hunt to find out. Also, the fellas enter a time machine to discuss when the season could have been saved and talk about who they’re rooting for and not rooting for in the playoffs.
The DNVR Nuggets podcast team takes on those questions and goes on a witch hunt to find out who is to blame for not winning the title? And the fellas hop in a time machine to figure out when things went wrong for the Nuggets.
Start – 0:00
Witch Hunt (Murray & Porter) – 5:15
Witch Hunt (Malone & Booth) – 22:00
Nuggets time machine – 38:30
Who do the fellas want to win? – 51:00
Superchats – 1:00:00
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The Nuggets flamed out because Murray and Porter are overrated.
Malone -> Murray -> MPJ -> Gordon -> Jokic
I’ve been avoiding basketball content since Game 7. Aside from that 3 game stretch it was honestly an utterly deflating postseason. We looked sluggish, out of sync and made so many errors. However, here’s to the hope of next season! And I wanted to say a big thanks to the DNVR crew for your work this season. I’m over in the UK and don’t meet too many Nuggets fans, so it’s been awesome watching the streams, the behind the scenes content and all the other bits you guys put together – I get to feel part of the family. I’ve been a fan of the game a while but been on board with the Nuggets since they came to London back in 2017. It’s been a wild ride so far and I ain’t getting off. Enjoy the summer fellas and looking forward to riding with you again in the Autumn. Cheers and all the love to the Nuggets fans around the world 💙💛💙💛
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I was unhappy, of course, and depressed after Sunday. I now think the front office should try to reconstitute the champions with Bruce Brown back, if possible. The magic formula was THERE, and it got away, and who can say if new pieces will fit well, no matter how good they appear on paper? I know people will say other teams will just get better and better, and we need to join the arms race, but that isn't really true. If the Wolves win the chip, and even if they don't, they've had enough of a positive light shone on them that one or two of their players will want to cash in and leave.
I didn't really find their season disappointing. They tied for the best record in a stacked division. They had four more wins this season than last season, tying the franchise record. They dominated the Lakers in round 1 of the playoffs, and about half the time did pretty well against the Wolves. I'm definitely disappointed the season is over, and game 2 and (the second half of) game 7 against Minn were completely miserable to watch, but does that make their whole season a disappointment? People need to remember this a game we watch for fun, imho.
But ok, if we have to place blame for an outcome we don't like? I blame:
Anthony Edwards
Naz Reid
Karl Anthony Towns
Mike Conley
Rudy Gobert
…in roughly that order. Or maybe Tim Connelly for building the Nuggets core championship roster and then going to Minnesota to specifically build a team that could beat them.
All the Nuggets players and Mike Malone did their jobs, for the most part. Murray had consistency issues, and shouldn't have been guarding bigs. Jokic needed more relief from the bench. But overall, and especially during the regular season, this club did what it was supposed to do and I loved watching. Only one team can win the title every year. I'm not sure I like where this trend is going, of blaming and firing head coaches (except for Darvin Hamm 😜) for only making it to the division semis or whatever.
Skap Atack YT video : Putrid Nuggets Stab Nikola Jokic in the Back (sum it up perfectly) .
Also there are rumors Denver is trading KCP and MPJ is staying ..That means its a wrap for Denver next season.
This team is lottery team without Nikola Jokic ..
Nugets as an organization is player development organization not a championship organization.. And they dont know how to handle Nikola Jokic caliber player and they w8sted 3 off 4 years of his prime by giving him Facu Campaso Astin Rivers 3 back surgery MPJ (low iq) ACL Jamal and this year 0 bench players ..
I hope Jokic grow up and move on from this team to any decant NBA team org and finish off his prime with at list 3 or more rings …
We need another big!! Malone did a terrible job utilizing the bench ….the development of young players just works if they let them play…..
Calvin Booth and Michael Malone better get on the same page. Booth said that he's willing to sacrifice this year's repeat for the sake of winning three in six years. Malone didn't play any of the youngsters to get them ready for that vision. I know it's hard for any coach to coach that way, but if the team is built for that vision, then the better play that way.
I could finally come out and Grieve
Dallas to beat the wolves for sure and Dallas to beat Boston right?
Michael Porter Jr is the 🧙♂️
Front office ans MPJ. He is paid max for 6 points average for last 3 Play off games? This is garbage
Nuggets won 3 games cause they hit shots, and lost 4 cause they missed shots. It sounds basic, but when you get multiple good looks in the third and miss almost all of them, you are going to feel deflated. Also, Murray has to be a better play maker. He was good at it last year, but this year, there was too much over dribbling.
49:10 like I said yesterday
This was such a stupid discussion. They were either fatigued because they played so much throughout the season or they were not. If they were, you can't say oh if they just won that game 7 everything would have been fine, because there would have been another six or seven game series with Dallas and then another six or seven game series with the Celtics. If you're arguing that they were overplayed, then they were cooked anyway.
MPJ looks like a sad sack when he can’t hit shots. He moves slower, no pep in his step, no juice at all.
We did need the #1 seed away from the wolves 🤷🏽♂️ would've been better to see them in the WCF
Drinking game: drink every time someone says “man” on this show (two drinks if its in a whiny tone) 😵💫🤮
I felt Eric and Brendan made the better points during the Witch Hunt. Cathartic episode–thanks DNVR guys!
I agree with the larger point that Denver should try to not ride the starting 5 so much. But I just don't understand this narrative about Malone and the young guys. He played Braun and PWat a ton this year. PWat was bad in the playoffs, got benched for Holiday, who played well. All the vets off the bench played well enough, they generally won their minutes! So this is really about not playing second-round rookies during the season. Which …. show me a playoff team who did that this year. I'll wait.
The GM, primarily.
Game 7 Nuggets got out coached.
Jamal Murray is a good player but he gets injured too much and is inconsistent.
Still adorable.
Stop making these excuses “too tired” “repeating is exhausting” for this team’s performance. Bulls won 72 games and still went on to win the whole damn thing. I think something wasn’t right in the locker room.
The average Wolves fan is a clueless ass that knows nothing about the endless illegal contact fouls their players commit and call "defense."
Awesome graphic Kalle 😂
Don’t trade MPJ. He’s not top of my list. He played hard all season. 6’10 snipers don’t grow on trees. I’m saying Murray
Naz Reid
Booth. As I said on a stat of season, ALL teams made a move, Nuggets drafted bunch of nothing and signed backup…piano player.