All of the questions in regards to the Nuggets’ taking pictures and depth, and whether or not the younger gamers the group is relying on to exchange key contributors from the group that gained a title in 2023 can in the end accomplish that, remained uncomfortably within the air. “I feel individuals basically, they at all times need increasingly more and extra, however they don’t know what they’ve,” Jokic mentioned. “I’m actually joyful we now have one title — plenty of superb gamers don’t win.” However the Nuggets have the very best participant on the planet on their roster — whose prime, by Sales space’s personal definition, is greater than half over. Which raises maybe crucial query within the NBA: How do they maximize what’s left of it? “If we don’t win it this yr,” ahead Michael Porter Jr. instructed ESPN. “Everyone knows they could have to interrupt it up.”
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“Does this Denver Nuggets group seem like a championship contender? Hell no.” 😳
@KendrickPerkins says Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. want to assist NIkola Jokic 👀 pic.x.com/X3qZDqQd1E – 3:38 PM
“Does this Denver Nuggets group seem like a championship contender? Hell no.” 😳
@KendrickPerkins says Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. want to assist NIkola Jokic 👀 pic.x.com/X3qZDqQd1E – 3:38 PM
Sam Quinn @SamQuinnCBS
… I kinda just like the Invoice Simmons “Michael Porter Jr. and Zeke Nnaji for Zach LaVine” commerce thought.
Chicago breaks up the LaVine contract and clears the ball-handling logjam for Coby and Giddey.
Denver will get a badly-needed dose of creation with out sacrificing taking pictures. – 3:32 PM
… I kinda just like the Invoice Simmons “Michael Porter Jr. and Zeke Nnaji for Zach LaVine” commerce thought.
Chicago breaks up the LaVine contract and clears the ball-handling logjam for Coby and Giddey.
Denver will get a badly-needed dose of creation with out sacrificing taking pictures. – 3:32 PM
Tim Reynolds @ByTimReynolds
Nuggets have 4 gamers with no less than 20 tonight … and Michael Porter Jr. has 14 getting into OT.
Membership report for 20-point scorers in a recreation: 5, executed twice, each throughout the nice Alex English period. – 10:12 PM
Nuggets have 4 gamers with no less than 20 tonight … and Michael Porter Jr. has 14 getting into OT.
Membership report for 20-point scorers in a recreation: 5, executed twice, each throughout the nice Alex English period. – 10:12 PM
Duvalier Johnson @DuvalierJohnson
On the half: Nets 72, Nuggets 63
Regression on the defensive aspect of the ball on the 2nd night time of a b2b, gave up 12 3-pointers already
Jamal has 13 factors, Jokic has a close to triple double with 10p/8r/7a and MPJ has 11 factors
In the event you’re Malone, what’s your message to the group? – 8:42 PM
On the half: Nets 72, Nuggets 63
Regression on the defensive aspect of the ball on the 2nd night time of a b2b, gave up 12 3-pointers already
Jamal has 13 factors, Jokic has a close to triple double with 10p/8r/7a and MPJ has 11 factors
In the event you’re Malone, what’s your message to the group? – 8:42 PM
Vinny Benedetto @VBenedetto
Michael Malone’s sticking with the MPJ stagger in Brooklyn. Julian Strawther is available in for Porter in the midst of the primary quarter.
Nets up 4. – 7:53 PM
Michael Malone’s sticking with the MPJ stagger in Brooklyn. Julian Strawther is available in for Porter in the midst of the primary quarter.
Nets up 4. – 7:53 PM
Extra on this storyline
League sources mentioned the Nuggets inquired about Paul George this offseason, however talks by no means escalated as a result of Denver refused to debate Braun, Watson or Strawther, and the Clippers weren’t eager about solely taking again future wage — possible the $147 million owed to Porter and Zeke Nnaji. -via ESPN / November 1, 2024
“I feel we’ve received plenty of gamers that, they wish to get to the midrange, they wish to get to the rim,” Porter mentioned. “So we all know on this day in age, groups rating plenty of factors after they get some 3s up. So I don’t have my companion in crime, KCP. He was type of a quantity shooter final yr. So we don’t have any actually quantity 3-point shooters. I feel Jamal (Murray), he’ll shoot some 3s, however he likes to get to the middy. Joker ought to most likely take a pair extra per recreation. However I do know it’s gonna be as much as me and Julian (Strawther) to essentially be the amount 3-point shooters.” -via Denver Put up / October 21, 2024
“With Denver, Joker [Nikola Jokic] is the very best participant within the league. However Denver’s second-best participant goes backward. Jamal Murray hasn’t been the identical. There’s something about Jamal’s well being and bodily capability proper now that issues me. Michael Porter can be terribly overrated. He’s a one-way participant and only a scorer. I additionally don’t assume Denver has the property to get an improve. They’ll be caught with the group they’ve.” -via SportsKeeda / October 14, 2024
