Adleman COTY

Great run! Peyton Watson stepped up big. Would not have been surprised if it was 6-10, very happy with the 10-6 stretch. Adelman must be doing a great job

Think the team honestly needed to find ways to win without Jokic and have some other guys get more opportunity…….hoping all of this was a blessing in disguise somehow.

Great job surviving the stretch. They didn’t lose ground like lot thought they would 

You jerks! This was supposed to be the Wolves time to move up in the standings!

Good job Nugs.

“they’d be a 17 win team without him bro!”

Without Jokic is an understatement they missed a mix of everyone. Im surprised they did so well considering so many extra guys were out. The win in Philly was the craziest one all the starting 5 out and still got the win. Now to play devils advocate they did get to basically play the easiest possible stretch of games. Playing like 10east teams in like a 12 game stretch most being the worst ones. But regardless this was probably a fever dream for nuggets fans doing this well.

in this stretch and players like Zeke, Pickett and Tyson having to contribute legit nba minutes. TIM Hardaway J.r just keeps showing what a free agent signing he has been To get him on a minimum after he played 30mins a game on the pistons last season was insane. Watson step up making him look like KD for 5-6 games there and Murray continuing his best regular season by far.

Jokic mvp case in SHAMBLES

Terrific job winning a lot of close games. Big minutes for the rotation guys who benefit from the extra development

I think I was like one of 10 Jalen Pickett fans when he was drafted, fucking knew he’d make it

Not the 17 wins pace most Jokic fans swore thy would be huh?

hopefully Jamal has upped his FT practice

For them to still be 3rd in the west while missing so much of their roster is a minor miracle. Shout out to the coach, but also shout out to the GM for actually putting a competent roster around Jokic. I highly doubt last year’s Nuggets would have gone 10-6 over a similar stretch.

Ngl if anyone else had this happen it’d hurt their mvp case

Not bad at all, they stayed in the running for a top seed without the best player on the planet, they did a great job on their summer acquisitions

Jokic has so much help don’t let his fans gaslight you otherwise.

This is actually insane.

Honestly all these guys getting minutes without Jokic and some other starters will be huge come playoffs.

Everyone’s biggest worry with Denver is their depth, and maybe this will be the confidence boost the bench needs to make a finals push?

Most of the credit goes to Adelman. If it was Malone, they’d be 2-14 and Murray would be so far out of the All Star conversation.

Absolutely outstanding. Take a bow David Adelman. Going in, an 8-8 record over this stretch would have been a success. A 6-10 record understandable and 3-13 a real possibility. Unreal. And it coulda/shoulda been 12-4 (Lakers and Orlando games).

Signs of a well rounded roster that could compete with the likes of OKC. Considering they took them to 7 last year with less.

Denver gonna be scary with Jokic back 

Pwat was the sole reason they didn’t absolutely TANK. Obviously Jamal stepped up huge, but hes been having an amazing season, the whole season, point blank. Pwat breaking out saved them from play-in territory, especially considering even with his play they had a negative net rating during this stretch. To make matters even worse, their opponents on the season also had a negative net rating in this stretch. 10-6 was literally best case scenario, and they pulled it off. Incredible coaching, and gutsy performances - hell of a stretch. Great timing on his return too, they seem like they were running on fumes.

I was hoping we’d be above the play in line when Jokic came back. But we’re pretty much in the same place we were before he got hurt.

Thank you Jamal Murray.

That’s pretty solid. Denver still scary with joker on the court, damn!

Also, keep in mind that January was by far the easiest stretch for Denver.

I’m very high on the Nuggets championship potential. I would pick them over OKC as of right now.

Watson got reps as a high volume scorer which will help them in the playoffs

I would’ve guessed like 5-11

Murray and the rest of the Nuggets I tip my hat to you guys, helped the nuggets more than stay afloat.

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Murray is a dawg living up to his contract. Our “unplayable” bench players proved that if they are given a chance to warm up then they can score (except hunter Tyson sorry bro it’s not personal), and the nuggets have officially unlocked an entirely new offense that can succeed.

It’s amazing how they didn’t lose any ground and it’s not like they have much of a gap in the west. Jamal needs the added help for this carry job the past month.

Not gonna complain that they got a lot of east teams during this stretch. To stay in third place was a miracle. Now, somehow heal up Braun and Gordon.

jamal murray mvp?

Not only without Jokić , they didn’t have a big man for a month and at times all 5 starters were missing, adelmann is stamped in my book.

All they had to do was tread water, and they ended up swimming the English Channel.

It is really nice work and I’m surprised. Just last year their bench consisted mostly of just Russell Westbrook

Trade Jokic! 

its important to note that the other big JV was out for most of the time too

It’s been amazing. They’ve been playing without 3 or 4 starters, and also without Valanciunas, almost the entire time he’s been out (Murray was the only starter playing last night).

If this team can get healthy (particularly Gordon) for the playoffs, they’re gonna be tough to beat.

And they say Nuggets have no depth ._.

Crazy, not for jokic because we have a good team (and the calendar wasn’t that difficult) but because the majority of our best players didn’t play most of the games.

And Jonas missed a bunch of games. We pretty much were playing small ball and got killed on the boards a lot.

Congrats 😠 That’s awesome 😠 I’m so happy for you 😠

That’ll do pig

Back to Denver being a bunch of scrubs

Bbbbut Jokic is the best player EVER!!!

Without him, Denver would go 0-82

Does that mean the team is better without him? Or does it mean that the comments about “ the team being a 17 wins team without him” will stop? At least for this season.

Too bad he’s never played with an All-Star or had good teammates.

Still chance for mvp

Fucking Jokic fans flooding the entire sub with Jokic’s teammates being G-Leaguers for years. Exposed

My thoughts are that it’s questionable that he could be the MVP when his team played this well without him. They were even missing Gordon and Murray for a large chunk of those games.