What Is The Denver Nuggets Biggest Offseason Need?

What Is The Denver Nuggets Biggest Offseason Need?

if I’m to tell you that they’re able to get you know maybe someone wants to ring Chase with them on the veterans because all as they can offer is minimums assuming case I’m just penciling kcp to come back if they try and sell us on Christian Brown being ready to take those minutes or Payton Watson uh I’m gonna call [ __ ] uh so I’m assuming he’s gonna come back they’ll only have minimums to offer or they can look at moving number 28 before it’s a salary in that sweet spot where it’s not a future pick but it’s also not a salary attach it to zek Nagi and they’re able to get somebody that has to make the same amount or less what is the biggest need for them like looking at they need a few things but what would be the one if they could address one need um what would be your brothers there so everyone talks about backup ball handler SLO guard and also backup center I would 100% prioritize backup center over everything those second units need a solid rotation level veteran scaffold to help those young guys have something to go to see Nai has not been I will not listen anymore it’s been every season they’re talking about this is the Zeke I will not listen to anymore Z nji hype coming from the Nuggets my problem isn’t that zek Nagi can’t like be the things that all the zek nji stands maybe think that he can be but it’s not gonna be on this team it’s not what this team needs we need a backup center who can set screens Andor be some kind of rooll threat or lob threat um the screen setting is so big because no one in our second unit can really create their own separation we’re not a good you know isolation team right um but also the rebounding those second units are really good at you know prot Rim protection but they can’t grab a defensive rebound to save their lives and part of that is because they are undersized zi is an undersized Center but also you had units where Payton Watson is playing the four um and so if had a more viable option there it just raises the floor for those second units by a lot more so that would be my answer in terms of like this is what we need for the regular season I do think that there’s a reasonable uh there’s a reasonable argument for backup ball handler to be more important in terms of creating um playoff versatility but I actually think that making sure we can get to that point where the starters are just totally refreshed and all of that like they could have made it through that Wolf series if they had been you know better at like not being completely gassed in the second half of the game where they were up 20 um but they can’t get through the regular season with uh they can’t get there without a uh a solid option Off the Bench to help spell yic that doesn’t involve Aon Gordon playing more minutes backup five in the regular season because he he and yic I think were the most just they had the biggest burden uh because of that throughout the regular season and I think that that’s the reason that they looked the most gassed um throughout the playoffs it wasn’t just in the wolv series either um yeah you gota we got to rest our our big guys a little bit more I would normally my view would be that because you’re have Nicole yit like I don’t care as much about the backup five but this is not like a Joel embiid situation where you can kind of pencil yic in for between 30 and 50 games of rest every single year um so if you can have somebody who is capable and especially because they don’t have the resources to get stupid it’s it’s like let’s trade like let’s give up a first- round pick for a backup center um that the the combination of oh maybe there’s a night where we can just force yage to rest and play this not DeAndre Jordan at Center but you mentioned the Aaron Gordon thing I think is huge that’s also part of the reason I think they missed Jeff Green a little bit is just that when you look at the minutes that Gordon played as the deao center those went up this year and also just like the assignments he had during some of the the like those bench units like he was just guarding bigger players a lot of the time it felt like and so I’m assuming that creates wear and tear so I would agree with you that if they could get a capable backup center that that might go a longer way at this point than if we can get veteran X to come in and soak up some of the the Reps behind Jamal Murray instead of a Reggie Jackson or testing out jail and pick it yeah and I think that again having just like a screen Setter would help the offense of the other guys a lot more because they can’t I don’t know whatever experiment with their games uh or have any confidence to like do something with the ball when they can’t create any separation from their Defenders because they’re not isolation players the guys that we draft the guys that we sort of build um uh used to build this team around yogic uh and that’s like they play well with Y because he’s a good screen Setter and a good passer but the screens are like a really underrated part of what just makes those units successful um I think that the the fact that yic is like kind of Peak at all the basic Center things that makes those lineups so successful uh I will never stop trying to trade Nick Richards to the Nuggets if anyone if anyone I me I’ll take that although they did have they had tatted up yo and then uh Isa hartstein went on and had a he wasn’t tatted up at the time but they had soon to be tatted up yic and they let him go I asked other nuggets fans like what was the deal with this guy he’s like he couldn’t stop fouling and like he couldn’t catch the ball and I’m like but look at his floater was that there maybe it wasn’t I he’s got a three-point shot that I don’t think tibs will ever let him experiment with but uh that’s neither here he’s about to get paid I that’s going to be Nicks need to worry about that a little bit if they can’t keep him uh anything else about this team that we didn’t touch on that you would just like to discuss before we uh move on to some magic talk yeah I mean there’s been a little bit of um of conversation about whether the Nuggets offense is like too organized um I I tend to think that there’s like a little bit of something there especially watching say the contrast between how the Mavericks played the wolves and how how the Nuggets looked against them in the games that the Nuggets looked the best especially the starters was when they were super decisive in their offense ball was moving and when a guy was the play finisher there was no hesitation to like take the shot maker Miss um I think the Mavs and the Pacers have a lot of freelancing in their offenses you see how much uh issue that ended up giving the Celtics in the in the Eastern Conference Finals in that Incredibly Close four game sweep um I do think that like there’s a question of like is it because we lack confident players because our players are so young Off the Bench in part particular uh I think part of the frustration with how the wolf series went a lot of people were like why was Christian Brown hesitating on a lot of his shots the thing with Justin holiday was he was ready to uh let that bad boy fly make her Miss whenever he got the ball a lot more misses were the uh back half of that series than makes but in the first half it was great he was making everything and we’re like yes somebody who will take a shot love it um but I do think that there can be more room like we talked about with mpj like there’s room to experiment a little bit more with all of the different players in the roster so that we’re not overly reliant on the Murray yic Twan game and this is something that um I think a lot of uh a lot of nuggets fans are talking about this off season um that is it’s funny that at point I mean it felt like a lot during the playoffs that offense was the bigger issue for the Nuggets I would be it’ be which no one would have expected although going up against the Wolves a team that we see receive push back from this from Timberwolves fan we said it like they were built in the image of beating the Nuggets like that’s just a fact at this point um but the Orlando will disagrees by the way but that they were built to beat the Nugget yeah he hat that narrative is it because they had some of those players before like the Nuggets were this version of the nuggets and Tim Connelly were there that’s a lot of the he like doesn’t want to give Tim credit but we don’t have to we don’t have to dive into that too deeply I just wanted to say that to annoy him oh man I will say I can’t remember who tweeted this but for Tim Connelly to play I’ll phrase it this way as to not anger will or anybody else to play such a big role in building what became the championship core of the nuggets and then building what turned out to be their cryptonite um someone tweeted like using that as act phrasing I found it hysterical [Music] [Music]

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