Are the Nuggets Coaches and Front Office on the Same Page?
Reports are out that Malone and Booth are not seeing eye to eye on the direction of the team. Are these reports real? Does this mean anything for the upcoming season?
The Nuggets are not considered to be real threats in the West by many after losing KCP? Fair?
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28 Comments
Bring back Tim Connelly…
Is someone going to ask Nikola why he wanted Westbrook?
Does anyone think if Jamal was healthy and played like regular season Jamal, the Nuggets would not have made the finals
27:55 go back & watch russ while he’s been with the clippers especially coming off the bench. I promise russ can fit into that Bruce brown role perfectly. & him & pwat both being defensive playmakers could really open up fast break opportunities for the 2nd unit
27 deserve his contract extension Booth is horrible how you give zeke all that money for doing nothing at all really plus he is not that good stop drafting overrated players
Its very disrespectful for you guys talking about trading 27 am in North Carolina hear talking wrackless
Imo the problem with the nuggets is that jokic is a unicorn. He's amazing. But we don't have a back up center that can provide any continuity. When he sits we have to completely change our game. We go from a center who touches it every play and orchestrates the whole offense, to a series of undersized centers that don't touch the ball, don't have lob threats, and don't have the mental toughness to keep everyone on track. The bench is out there playing small ball which isn't our identity. They would need to be really mature to execute a completely different style that probably isn't talked about in practice. The best we looked last year was when DJ turned back the clock and was successfully handling DHOs and providing a lob threat for RJ. None of our young guys are truly developing because they're playing a chaotic brand of ball and 4v5 on top of that. Wtf Strather and Pwat gonna do with Saric as the center? We lose every game in the 10 minutes jokic isn't on the floor.
Your Favorite Lakers Fan here, Predictions for this upcoming season for your Denver Nuggets. 1 Seed, Jamal plays 70 games, Jokic averages Triple Double, CB plays better than last years KCP and this years. Russ plays well off the bench under 4 turnovers, 10 plus points and really good defense.
Jokic for 9 years never had all star temmate.
Shame for Denver GM!
Front office looks at the best player in Jokic and was like let’s develop our young players for the championship run 😂
I’ve been applying for hella jobs and getting ghosted by the recruiters. Apparently they think they’re Calvin Booth or something. Rude.
I said this b4, I do questions malones coaching on the floor sometimes, but despite that 1 thing I know & love about coach is you can tell how much he cares & wants the best for this team & nikolas personal success, he knows & truly understands Jokic greatness probably more then any1 & doesn’t wanna let him down, by having his prime being wasted
Ryan as always is eeyore which is… tiresome
Malone shouldn’t be developing young players it’s not the time Malone spent his first 6 years in Denver developing young players & he still has 2 develop mpj 🤦🏾♂️😂& treat him like a kid as he still has many bad rookie habits at age 25, I understand at anytime for a young team or even if jokic was 35 I would completely understand him going that route instead of going all out, but not in the middle of his prime who knows when jokic is gunna slow down or have a injury
23:05 ; tier 2? come on dude, losing KCP but gaining a much better bench and a year older Braun surely makes this team tier 1 still? Jokic,Jamal,AG,MPJ,Braun + Good bench.. had they had a bench vs Minnesota the series would be over in 5 games, with our without KCP.
Man, the Rocky's Auto hat goes so so hard!!!
Please, please let Nikola go. Maybe you can attach Zeke and finally get rid of him 😂 🤡
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Swipa is totally right. The key question is whether Malone will rest the starters and get them healthy and rested to the playoffs. If they do, it shouldn't matter what their seeding is. NBA history provides ZERO examples of winning championships with a bunch of late 1st second round draft picks. Malone needs veterans who are ready to win now. And their bench doesn't have it.
Booth is as good as a GM as he was a player, a bit worse.. he dismantled roster that Tim Connelly put together, thats the only thing hes done – day 1 he said hes gonna be doing that ( developing ), year 1 he got rid of green and brown, then year 2 he got rid of KCP. He didnt bring in anyone for 2 years. This thing is done and over. next year he might trade murray cause he didnt extend him and Malone will be gone.. you shouldnt let inmate run asylum
People, give me some optimism, yes, the KCP left, the great KCP, but the core remained, which Cristijan Braun, and also Russell Westerbruk, whom I believe will take over the role of life and be the ace up the sleeve, but let's not rush, I believe that we in the first 4 teams in the league and we will have to take the title, the season is long, there will be some additions or not, I don't know, but I believe in young guys, and they are all young, no one has 30 of them, not counting R.W and D.J. , a young and experienced team, with the help of those who improved in the off-season, and everyone improved, from Nikola to C.B. it will be a very interesting season and I believe in Nikola and the team!
We wouldn't be in such a mess if 2 things happened.
If we didn't drastically overpay MPJ which caused Murray to by comparison to deserve a much bigger deal because he is clearly better than MPJ. So bad asset allocation with a salary cap, which is why I said we had a timer on winning a title before MPJ sank us. Im so sorry you got the max deal you fought for Michael, I do agree no one should pay you that much and I also find it distracting you wasted Jokics prime with your elementary school education and podcast where you made up new medical facts during a pandemic which should have been the sign not to resign you.
The other is Malone and the Nuggets don't develop young guys unless they absolutely have to, and even then Braun and Watson were benched last year when they made any mistakes after Nnaji was wrongly made the scapegoat again early in the season showing maybe Nnaji wasn't the problem he is just a little rusty because he isnt allowed to play due to fans ignorantly low opinion of him.
Guys if Murray doesn’t suck they win it’s really that simple
im sure CB can get 6-8 points that kcp got most games
After contract ends I hope Nikola joins Luka.
Denver are so CHEAP!! If I am Jokic I will demand trade during the season , when I see what players bring as replacment or you did not bring."That is a sign of disrespect towards Jokic." Can you imagine if Jokic played in Philadelphia or Boston, Lakers, Warriors ,what are they going to do to use Jokic best years for championship
Calv literally appears to be trying to completely diminish our championship odds, but we'll see what happens 🤞
Denver now fs is biggest clown 🤡🤡🤡🤡 organization in the NBA! Shame shame shame…. Jokic, again, run out PLEASE 🥺😢