Will Denver Nuggets turn season around on the road? | Pickaxe and Roll
On the latest episode of Pickaxe and Roll, Ryan Blackburn discusses the Denver Nuggets 109-104 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, including what was a truly abhorrent offensive performance until Nikola Jokic took over the game. The Nuggets still lost, but did they figure anything out in the process? Ryan discusses Jamal Murray, Russell Westbrook, Michael Porter Jr., Peyton Watson, and much more. Then, he previews the Nuggets three-game road trip with the Toronto Raptors tonight.
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I'm not sure why you thought Porter's D was good in 2nd game. I thought Porter more then any player missed his rotation from the corner to help on the roll more then anyone else.
Trade mpj
Damn, I feel bad for Jokic. He has to do everything for this team, not sure why the FO had to give max contract to Jamal then because he seems to only be good with Jokic. Nuggets media need to stop ridding Jamal dick and hold him accountable.
I went to the game and in the second half, the bench defensive effort looked good but they couldn’t score. It was so frustrating seeing them not score on the fast breaks as they should
19:19 if Murray was on as much PEDs/Steroids as Lebron, he’d move like that too
Mpj poor defensive player can’t create his own shot has no ball handling poor passing poor decision making plays like he’s 6’1 instead of 6’10 and has a max contract
I think they can still come back and be a good team, but Malone for once is going to have to be a great development coach and embrace some young guys who need playing time to learn things. They cannot learn from the bench, and if they aren't playing off the bench maybe send them to Grand Rapids for an assignment so they can get playing time to develop parts of their game. Also frustrates me that we still don't have a practice facility, only team that doesn't in the NBA.
That being said I'm nervous about Jamal and Porter, they both tend to get into it with media when they're in slumps, and Westbrook since day 1 I warned could destroy this teams chemistry because he is so selfish and is so loud it makes other guys speak out too.
If each Nugget exudes confidence, be more intentional on the court, then they might have a chance. Nonchalant attitude shouldn’t exist. They should practice more accountability & respect to their coworker & paying fans.
stop making excuses for murray sucking, bottom line is I have said the nuggets should have gotten rid of murray since the championship..we have seen the best of him and he is DONE..NO way he can average 25 points a game, you're delusional 🤡
If each Nugget exudes confidence, be more intentional on the court, then they might have a chance. Nonchalant attitude shouldn’t exist. They should practice more accountability & respect to their coworker & paying fans by putting in more effort.
Fire Calvin Booth. They should have traded Murray and Porter jr.
The team is in desperate need of someone that can rebound on both ends of the floor when Jokic is not on the floor. Lack of offensive rebounds means one shot on our possessions and lack of defensive rebounds means other teams get multiple shots on their possessions. The result is bench lineups get significantly outscored unless they shoot super high percentages.
Another slight dissonance I got from the video. Though I thought overall Ryan made some great points. BUT, he talked about Murray needing to run high pick n' roll with Saric with the bench AND THEN right before that spoke of Russ need to look for Strawther. Issue is you can't do both. If you play Murray with the bench AND put the ball in Murray's hands that makes PWat, Russ, and Strawther as spacers, and that is tough. Not impossible but tough, and teams are going to help off of PWat and Russ and not Strawther so you're not going to get him going. I believe you either play Russ, Murray, Strawther, MPJ, Saric, with Murray handling the ball OR Russ, Strawther, PWat, MPJ, Saric, with Russ handling it, but you're not gong to be able to do both things mentioned in the video in any single game to any consistency.
Get Uncle Jeff back next season. He is a free agent.
The first thing the Nuggets need to do is get rid of Russel Westbrook obviously they should have never let KCP get away he's a much more valuable player than Westbrook will ever be for the Nuggets !