Is It Championship Or Bust For The Nuggets? | Ranking Trade Assets
Adam Mares and Matt Moore break down the essential question of what the expectations should be for Denver this season? Do they need a top-four seed? Is health more important? Do they need an identity or a survivable bench more? And when it comes to the playoffs, is it championship or bust for Denver with Nikola Jokic in his prime? Plus, we talk trade assets and how Denver may not have many avenues to improve… or more than you might think. All this and more on Locked on Nuggets!
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Big changes coming if Nuggets don’t go all the way this season.
Matt makes me laugh :D, Jamal Murray vs Dort+Caruso and we are favorites 😀 😀 😀 really? so Jokic is second incarnation of Michael Jordan?
God..hey everyone in the comments: why even watch them then? Go take your shitty outlook elsewhere. Im a fan of this team and I’m gonna wait and see how the season goes because like you I HAVE ZERO IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF THIS TEAM. The chances ANYONE wins it all is slim. So I’ll be rooting for my guys from my city.
great convo on the trade value
From the 2021 year every year should been for DN FO championship or bust .But they didnt belive in Jokic chancis of wining championship for them and made catastrophic mistakes like waiting Jamal for 2 year injury , giving max contract to MPJ, and one year they invested in Jokic they won the ring but in 2024 they countiniuned with the same mindset didnt believe they could win 2 in a row and invested in project dynasty ..
So after 2024-25 there is no logical reason why would Denver keep Jokic after next year when also AG is gone if they dont have Championship aspirations and they are focused more on project dynasty 😛 other then waist his prime..
It's time for OKC and Sam P. to enter Godfather mode and bring Joker, I mean 16 frp, 16 srp and plethora of young talents. Calvin Booth look like someone trying to leave his own mark and something tells me his stupid enough to go for it. Maybe it would be the best thing for Nuggets coz championship window is kinda closed.
Alpi is called "baby Jokić", so Rockets are the obvious choice for AG trade, Smith Jr, Whitmore and Tate would be nice return, it would sure be better than letting him go for nothing coz Calvin Booth thinks Pswat is ready.
It's been championship or bust for a couple years, glad we got one but cap management is why we need a miracle for a 2nd one.
You guys are way too confident in a team that just lost a pivotal starter and a bench that is very questionable compared to the other West top teams. To think the twolves are the only threat is absurd and you are downplaying the Mavs way too much
Denver unfortunately become clown organization, only because they have Jokić and act like they do for 2 years… So I'm not at all optimistic. Matter the fact I'm pessimistic 💯. Unfortunately 😔
Nuggets (or any team) who is top5 in the Vegas odds to win a title and top2 in Vegas odds to win your conference is INARGUABLY championship or bust.
The odds aren’t saying 76ers or Knicks would beat the Nuggets in a series they’re just slightly higher bc in a weaker conference.
Nuggets are essentially 3rd best odds to win title behind Celtics & Thunder.
My money is on them to win title again. Could care less what the national media says. Only thing that scares me is health, but that’s the case for all teams. If nuggets 100% healthy I’m taking them over anyone in 7 game series.
. DON'T WORRY. AMERICANS, EVEN WITH JOKIČ, CAN'T LEARN THAT IT'S NOT ALL STATISTICS. WESTBROOK WILL REBIRTH NEXT TO JOKIC, EVERYONE WILL FOLLOW THEM AND DENVER WILL BE THE CHAMPION AGAIN. GREETINGS TO DENVER FROM SERBIA.
I don't care what anybody says! It's Championship or bust as long as we have Jokic
Mares is glass half full and Matt is glass half empty 😂
So is CB going to guard SGA?
Great points on knowing who you are..Adam
It's 'cause you're stupid, OK? 😩
Of course it's Championship or bust. Booth can say whatever he wants about how brilliant his "Project Dynasty" plan is but if the nuggets fall short again this year he's going to have to produce next season or else he will be gone. Josh Kroenke isn't going to tolerate failure.
Denver should hire a rotational consultant that should just focus on rotations where Malone cannot change it and just play the guys put by that consultant
15:45 but the nuggets got worse too.
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