It’s crazy how well this is working out so far. *knocks wood*

Joker rests, Jamal balls out and makes his first All-Star team, role players stretch their wings big time, and DA problem solves like a mofo. Overall, the reaction has been “DAMN, these guys can do all this?!”

It’s a ‘what have you done for me lately’ league. Unfortunate really because Mike Malone was a great coach for Denver who turned this franchise around and made our guys winners again.

The Malone slander is mostly undeserved. Maybe a little bit with Pickett but Watson and Zeke put in the work and got better, which is what they needed to do. And without the injuries we never would have seen this anyway no matter who the coach is.

We drafted well and they didn’t. Bucks signed much better FA’s than we did but that’s not enough.

I’m not even going to bother linking the laundry list of players he refused to develop. Suffice it to say that he had destroyed the confidence of Pickett, Hunter and Zeke and even to a lesser degree Watson.

We’ve been missing 2-4 starters for almost 3/4th of our games played. Malone had vastly more talent to work with even in the years with shorter benches yet we are on pace to tie his highest win total specifically because Adleman is maximizing the guys he was bitter were on the roster.

Michael “Jokic merchant” Porter Jr Malone

Wow. I actually feel it was the opposite. Under Malone the bench offense was “idk Jamal do something” where with DA we still run our same split cut and delay DHO actions as we do with Jokic on the floor so there’s consistency. It was genuinely remarkable to me that in 5 years Malone didn’t seem to come up with a single offensive set for the bench to run 

Real finals in the West isn’t real. Although the West match-ups are legitimately tougher.

Detroit definitely deserves respect this season. Outside of them, I’m just not high on East teams.

Raptors, Celtics, Sixers don’t move me. Maybe if the Celtics get Tatum back.

Ehh I’ve seen Denver-Minnesota (and Jokic-Gobert) several times by now. Jokic-Wembanyama and SGA-Ant would be more direct matchups.

Wemby-Chet would be fun but there’s lots of time for that matchup to happen.

Those lineups would make better stories for sure. NBA media and fans would be licking their chops

It’s the wolves curse for drafting Rubio and Flynn b2b before Stephen Wardell Curry.

They don’t need one. The Wolves have a top 6 offense with Ant and Randle as lead playmakers. And Bones is a solid backup.

Well their personnel were also able to keep up the defensive intensity for entire games. Sure they got better on O, but it will be different this time when you try to play Hardaway and big Val against OKC’s bench lineups, those guys aren’t exactly known for their defensive chops. I remember Val being run off the court by OKC when he was with the Pels a few years ago come playoff time even when he was dominating OKC on the other end, his PnR defense is just very bad. We’ll see if he can adapt this time around at age 34.

We’ll see how things go, should be a fun series if we meet again.

their defense is garbage, OKC don’t need to have the best offense in the world to beat them lol

OKC still have a top5 offense and a top 1 defense

Denver have a top 1 offense and a bottom 5 defense, their entire roster there’s like 3 good defenders

Denver will probably win a couple of games but just like we saw last year in that game 7 and the games OKC won they just suffocated Denver

Despite the series going to 7 last year OKC held them 105 ppg on awful ⁴⁰⁄₃₀ shooting splits and Denver last year were an elite offensive team

All factual comments, where is “i dislike the Nuggets”

Because i called them an awful defense? Bro what? You have an awful defense

Its after 1st or first if you prefer.

Did he stutter?

Pistons disrespect getting out of hand, y’all the only eastern team I respect tbh and if you don’t make it to the finals it’ll be absolutely horrible. 

Pistons max a 5th seed out west

nah watch some of houston’s recent hoops bro its sickening to watch

Brother, the state of Minnesota has not won a professional men’s championship in any sport since 1991. It’s been 35 years. I won’t hold my breath. This fucking conference is disgusting.

Counterpoint: the Timberwolves are from the state of Minnesota.

TWolves need a serious coach to go up a level.

They said ankle sprain not a hurt Achilles but the injury type was the negative step, looked like an injury that could cause an Achilles—not that there was, obviously wasn’t a full rupture (although for some reason he came back out to play a couple more minutes).

I would not be surprised if you told me there was some form of Achilles tendinitis he was also recovering from throughout this time. I’m hoping he recovers but the lift was noticeably worse on his return and he clearly wasn’t back fully, they need to keep him out till he’s 100 because reaggravating regular season injuries is death for the playoffs

likely gonna drop Cam to pay Watson

What’s there to understand? Malone is an idiot. A toxic idiot with a big ego. Simple as that.

You’re an ungrateful shortsighted zoomer clown if that’s really what you think.

If LeBron were like 35, I actually think there could be a case. lol

Every sane nuggets fan recognised that our team is much better this year. In previous years our lack of depth has been a huge issue

I was a doomer when he went down but they are just so much deeper and better coached than they were last year. We hadn’t seen the team play without jok for even a single game before he got hurt so we had no real way of knowing whag it would be like. The offense is worse and we aren’t blowing teams out anymore but we are definitely getting these gutsy ass wins. Pwat exploding in this stretch is crazy and we wouldnt be doing this without him

What agenda am I pushing

We can see your post history champ. You’re not slick.

Is the “shitting on his teammates” in the room with us right now?

Are you sure you just aren’t reading it that way because you’re insecure about your corny ass team looking very beatable right now, and you’re desperate to feel like Jokic is pedestrian?

OP said the Nuggets are SHORT HANDED. They have MULTIPLE STARTERS OUT. Recognizing that isn’t “shitting on his teammates.”

Go help Daigneault cram more Juicy Fruit into his mouth.