Coll_MindElectric | Nuggets

71 | 5 hours ago

It took losing TWO CENTERS to get the coaching staff to recognize he can play over ZEKE NNAJI. What is up with Denver coaches not giving promising players a chance over worse players?

Narrow-Theory-3533

25 | 5 hours ago

Adelman had him guarding Jokic and Valenciunas off season by his own words looked bad. And thought he might not be ready yet.

Ok_Possible_5702

13 | 4 hours ago

who would have guessed that asking a player with 0 NBA minutes to guard the BITW would make the former look bad?

Coll_MindElectric | Nuggets

9 | 5 hours ago

Sure if we compared him to those guys, but choosing to play Zeke Nnaji (a guy who is in Year 6 who is a net negative player on both sides of the court) over him?!

vNocturnus | Kings

9 | 4 hours ago

Holmes was always a tweener coming in and imo would be best suited at the 4 over the 5. Nobody that knows anything about basketball should be surprised that a guy like that would struggle to defend probably the two biggest centers in the NBA - one of whom is the best player in the league.

Glove_Upset

4 | 4 hours ago

Good thing those guys are on our team. Tbf, every starting center in the league looks bad guarding Jokic

JPowTheDayTrader

2 | 4 hours ago

First time I’ve heard it and it’s stupid as fuck. Holmes is a nat 4. Both centers are much bigger and heavier than him.

siegeoftyre | Nuggets

4 | 3 hours ago

Playing 4s as backup 5s has been a constant disaster for the Nuggets. JaMychal Green went from a nice fit at PF to an absolute disaster at Centre, same thing with Jeff Green. Hell, even Zeke Nnaji looked serviceable for a while playing the 4 which is his natural position.

That is why finally getting a proper backup Centre this season was such a Godsend.

jdorje | Nuggets

9 | 3 hours ago

Stop with this idiot narrative. He wasn’t riding the bench all those games - he was racking up 452 G league minutes and ~200 fg attempts. The moment Jokic got hurt he was called up to be a backup 5 to JV. He hasn’t played any power forward at all which is where Zeke plays.

Betaateb | Nuggets

2 | 4 hours ago

We had great ⁴⁄₅ depth to start the year and it made sense to give him consistent run in the G league to develop coming off the achilles injury.

ConcLaveTime | Nuggets

52 | 5 hours ago

HOLMES TRUTHERS RISE!!! BOOTH WAS RIGHT (only about this though)!

Propuhganduh | DEN

30 | 5 hours ago

His strength was drafting, but it was also his weakness because he believed everyone he drafted could play immediately.

9SidedLemon | Nuggets

5 | 3 hours ago

Yeah great drafting, considering the positioning seconds and late firsts but expecting those guys to be the solution to the teams depth problems without any fallbacks was hubris.

JPowTheDayTrader

6 | 4 hours ago

Booth was also right about Braun, Watson, Huff, IHart, and maybe Pickett.

the_mexican_menace | Nuggets

8 | 3 hours ago

Lol hartenstein was in the nuggets way before booth was the gm

-xXxMangoxXx- | Raptors

2 | 3 hours ago

Booth was always good at drafting, just not so good at everything else

Dry-Invite-5837

2 | 3 hours ago

Booth was right about alot of things (Watson, Braun, Daron, Strawther?, Pickett) but anything that required signing a free agent or trading for someone he was worse than a corpse.

LurkerFailsLurking | Nuggets

3 | 2 hours ago

Booth was a good talent scout, and an awful GM.

alphalobster200 | Nuggets

31 | 5 hours ago

should’ve kept Calvin Booth as head of scouting where he always belonged

landlion-35 | Nuggets

15 | 5 hours ago

I think Tyson was the only bad pick but he was a second round pick that should not have been given that contract

Spiritual-Chameleon | Nuggets

2 | 2 hours ago

I’m not sure Strawther was a great pick either. End of first round is a crapshoot, but they traded draft capital for those picks

Dependent-Effect6077 | Nuggets

10 | 5 hours ago

It’s insane how much better our depth/supporting cast looks with just ONE offseason free of the Booth/Malone combo

Malone was the actual Jokic merchant all along

Wonderful-Photo-9938

31 | 5 hours ago

Jokic out, Jonas out.

So, he got the opportunity.

Denver Bigs are being injured. What is happening?

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

27 | 5 hours ago

Our entire starting lineup sans Jamal is out, it’s nothing to do with the bigs

We’ve just got the fucking curse ig

doomrider2 | Lakers

8 | 5 hours ago

Yeah, seems to happen to a couple teams each season. This year it seems like you and the pacers are getting hit pretty hard. Although injuries seem to be up around the league.

lazysoup12 | Nuggets Bandwagon

8 | 5 hours ago

Jamal blood sacrifice to make the all star team

greenwhitehell

27 | 5 hours ago

His first non-garbage time NBA minutes lmao. Shot ⁴⁄₅ from the field too, ²⁄₃ from 3.

For reference, Zeke Nnaji’s game high in points this season was 6…

Narrow-Theory-3533

20 | 5 hours ago

Nuggets fan note.

David Adelman said Daron Holmes has not been NBA ready during the offseason practices as he had Daron Holmes guard Jokic and Valenciunas back to back. Lmao.

AdFew4836

2 | 4 hours ago

I mean it’s one game. Maybe calm down a little bit? I assume Adelman isn’t just saying this because he hates Holmes

Spiritual-Chameleon | Nuggets

1 | 2 hours ago

Well, getting development time in the G League and NBA level coaching by Ryan Bowen certainly helped. Hastings commented on Holmes’ improvement since summer league as a result of that development

CaffeineJunkee | Nuggets

8 | 5 hours ago

I’ve been screaming for Holmes all season. So glad he got a chance tonight even if it’s because of injuries. The dude can play.

Ancient_Response_787

9 | 5 hours ago

Please remove the 65 game rule. At this rate dillon brooks is gonna make the all nba

Wonderful-Photo-9938

8 | 5 hours ago

I think the only hypothetical moment this season where they will force them to amend the rule is when SGA hurt too.

Cause Jokic, Giannis, Wemby are/were hurt. Most likely to be disqualified.

SGA is even more likely to win MVP now. Unless, he gets hurt too.

In that scenario,Idk how NBA will adjust.

PS: I hope SGA stays healthy for the rest of the season.

Ok_Possible_5702

4 | 4 hours ago

I don’t think they can adjust the rules during the season, even if SGA were to miss the 65-games threshold. It’s just unfair.

You’d have a Brunson, Cade or Fox MVP.

Piratenika | Knicks

6 | 5 hours ago

It really took ⁴⁄₅ the starters getting injured for Adelman to give this guy some minutes.

obaidknight | Nuggets

4 | 5 hours ago

The Future!

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

4 | 5 hours ago

Classic 2nd year rookie things.

dbgager | Nuggets

5 | 4 hours ago

There starting center now..

diiron | Cavaliers

2 | 3 hours ago

jaylon tyson’s been playing great but would’ve also loved to get him during the 2024 draft, hope he kills it

ColdCocking | Nuggets

1 | 2 hours ago

what do you call an end of the bench player in the NBA?

An NBA player

Nuggets Rookie Daron Holmes II off the bench. 11/3/1/0/1