This Is NOT The Same Denver Nuggets…
The Denver Nuggets are a mess around Nikola Jokic, with Jamal Murry and Michael Porter Jr. struggling and a bad supporting cast… are they even still contenders in the West?
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As a nuggets fan. You’re absolutely correct about saying Malone would play someone over Porter and that’s been the problem. He’s using him incorrectly, he needs to let him iso more when he has mismatches on him. No reason Conley should have been able to “guard” him for an entire series. He always sits MPJ in defensive situations late game despite the fact that teams literally will attack Murray as opposed to MPJ because he’s actually a decent help defender just due to his length. His defensive struggles really only come when he’s guarding much quicker players. Which is usually the case because teams cross match due to putting their better taller defenders on Murray.
Jamal and MPJ are extremely overvalued and overpaid players, they both got lucky to play alongside Jokic otherwise they'd be irrelevant. Jamal got two good playoffs, the one in bubble and in 2023 but that's pretty much all he did for the Nuggets since he's drafted. He has never carried the team during the regular season, he missed two playoffs in Jokic's MVP seasons, never really been close to all star level outside of those two playoffs. But incompetent front office treat him as an absolute superstar and they gave him 208 mil/4 years contract. This makes his contract absolutely untradeable and I think it closed championship window for Jokic in Nuggets
The narrative that Jokic asked the front office to bring Westbrook is not true. Nuggets just consulted Jokic like any other team talk to their superstars about trades. And the choice for the Nuggets was very simple, they could keep Reggie Jackson who was pretty bad last season or bring Westbrook for the half of the Reggie's salary. There were no other options for Denver since they would hit 2nd apron with any other more expensive player
it was impossible to bring back Bruce Brown, btw. (unless he took way less money)
Bigges mistake giving max contracts to Murrey , Gordon and MPJ they should of traded for some of those guys
Idk y but that Murray air all 3 was funny asf. But this team show flashes of championship level dense and offense it just look like there rotations need to be better and need to communicate better because the amount of defensive lapses is inexcusable for a championship level team
You sound so stupid saying the nuggets are not contenders…
the starting 5 is still some of the highest plus minutes. Mpj and jamal can shoot and cb has been shooting close to kcp percentage. It's like you know nothing about the nuggets and you are just rehashing false talking points.
Pretty pathetic video…
Wrong on pretty much everything except the obvious…
The issue is not the young players but Jamal Murray and MPJ performances and their efficiency, if Murray still a threat the young guys will have less responsibilities and they can execute what was they asked for
NBA keeps paying damaged payers as if they are still perfect. Jamal Murray will not return. Kawhi Leonard will not return.
Without Jokic they wouldn’t even be a play-in team
Tucker I know you're a Nets fan so you understand that they're not supposed to be good this season, but as a Raptors fan, I know they're not a bad team. Both the Raptors and Nets should've won these games(I imagine the refs bailed out the Nuggets again last night), but the Raptors are heavily injured. They are not a bad team by any means, they're just not at the level of these major contenders, but going into the season, I knew the Nuggets weren't going to be good. it was a for sure thing that Porter Jr can't play defence, their bench has no offence and overall they're not a good defensive team(and can't shoot). That was evident, and now that it's actually being shown to people, everyone is surprised(which i really don't get tbh).
All last year, I kept saying that the Nuggets without Joker were not even a playoff team. And the organization did not make a move at the trade deadline, instead thinking they could rely on Jamal Murray (who always has some type of injury or excuse why he is not an all-star). Joker has to do literally everything, even help bring up the ball because they don't have good ball handlers to do even that, so their offense is slow to get going and they run out of time on the shot clock. Joker needs help now, so that by the end of the season, he won't be worn out and risk injury.
MPJ and someone else for Lauri and this team would be broken.
It's just not physical talent, I think it is more mental and basketball IQ that most players lack. The other Nuggets besides Joker, are great athletes, but not great basketball players. Also, they are not really skilled in basketball skills like dribbling, setting effective screens, etc. They are just strong, run fast or can jump.
Sky is falling!
Jokic has a average sixers team now embiid and jokic are even rn
Now they are gonna move the goalposts again to try and give Jokic another mvp 🙄
Still early in the season the law of averages will come around. Mpj wont be shooting this bad for the rest of the season nor will murray however denver has much to discuss when it comes to keeping murray with his injury
Lets wait about 20 games then will see,it is to early
MPJ, Gordon and Murray are still sleeping. Hopefully they wake up soon.
Afraid u r right but I'm still hoping!
Agree. They ruined it by giving max contracts to Murray and MPJ and thus not being able to bring beneficial player with an exception of AG. Worst part is they're not using Jokers prime time.
This is a over reaction, Nuggets finishing a top 4 seed in the West… Watch!
They have been playing jokic different this season alot more post ups reminds me of tim duncan