Were the Nuggets TOO TIRED? KCP thinks so
The Denver Nuggets got bounced from the NBA Playoffs after seemingly running out of gas during the series with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Did Michael Malone push his players too much during the regular season? Former Denver Nugget guard KCP recently shared his opinion on the topic, hinting at the fact the the Nuggets were worn down by the time they got to the NBA Playoffs. Ryan Blackburn and Swipa discuss as the Nuggets offseason rolls on.
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Malone labeled his bench players as not good enough to play in the NBA and chose to play very tired players…there may be better ways to motivate a team.
Jokic was the only one who had the guts to say that the better team won the series with Minnesota, and I'll post this every time you mention KCP and how good a player he is, and how irreplaceable he is.
Reading the comments, I conclude that the majority of people who write comments, including the majority of channel hosts on all YT channels related to Denver, draw conclusions and talk about KCP and other players as if they had no contact with any sport in their lives. Everyone writes about KCP as if he was in is an excellent basketball player, but in fact he is average and completely replaceable, especially if we take Braun as a replacement. If we have to take part in commenting about the Denver Nuggets team, let's be realistic and consider all aspects of the players or the team being commented on. KCP in the play offs of this completed season, in 12 games, only three games were positive in the complete + – statistics. In four games out of 12, he was in double figures – twice with 12 points, one 14. one 16 points, all other games r single digit. He had 2.7 ast per game, 2.9 rebounds pg. Now the complete picture of 3-point shooting in 12 playoff games-4/10, 0/4, 1/5, 2/3, 1/6, 2/4, 0/2, 0/2, 1/4, 4/ 5, 2/6, 1/4 – if we add it all up, we get 51 points from three-point shooting in 12 games, a very bad statistic even for an average player. Next, in only 3 games out of 12, KCP shot free throws, in 9 games there was not a single free throw attempt. How good is KCP with 8.08 ppg in 12 play off games. Steals for such a defender 1.4 spg, 17 in total on 12 POG, haha 10 of them are from 5 games against LA, 7 steals on 7 games against Wolves. I will not write to you about Fga without three points and free throws because it is additionally devastating. I can additionally write that in 12 playoff games CB has a negative + – in the complete statistics in only two, in ten playoff games he had a + in the complete statistics. I know that because of the championship team, every fan is attached to KCP, but looking at the bigger picture, he is not a player for Denver(CB is stronger better defender, and for shooting better to take CB because of the age and because of the winning mentality). What happened with Brown after leaving Denver, the same will happen with KCP, if he was really that good, OKC would take him instead of Caruso or some other team that is among the top five or top 8 to win the championship, but money above all because he knows that this is the last stop for a good contract at the age of 31. Jokic does not need players who are chasing contracts, but players who are chasing the championship. End of story all the best to KCP and Denver will be a much better team without KCP, Reggie and with Saric and Russ a much more mature and stronger team as a whole – this is a team sport, Denver to victory.
His comments weren't out of line. They were accurate.
Even though he did great for us, and I agree that we were tired, I'm glad he's off the team because that is loser speak to say we should have lost to the Lakers. We swept them, in spite of KCP being atrocious this postseason, and we took Minny to 7 after being complacent in the first 2 games. He was the reason we lost to Minny, he literally was the worst guarding Ant.
I don’t agree with sitting the players more games. That’s a crappy excuse in my opinion that they were tired. Everyone’s tired come playoff time.. when Golden state were winning championships their stars played. Malone just mishandled the younger players during the regular season so that when the rotation shortened in the playoffs and/or someone wasn’t a good matchup or had a bad outing (p wat) he had no one else he was comfortable throwing in. He just needs to play the younger guys more. He did the same thing with MPJ when he first came in. Let them play and live with the growing pains so they can properly develop.
His comments was right 🤦🏾♂️ look a most great coaches spo & poppovic they usaully always rest their players popovic even used to start resting his players in march 😂 when spurs was dominate coach Malone is a overrated coach that jokic has made look good like jokic does with every who plays next to him