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Post by famicommander on Sept 28, 2024 20:29:20 GMT -5
We still need to score. We weren't able to get up enough 3s in general last year and we lost a gigantic chunk of the attempts we did get up between KCP, Holiday, and Reggie.
CB, Cancar, and Saric need to be cash money from 3. High volume, high percentage, high consistency.
We know we'll get good production from Murray and Porter if healthy. We know Jokic will put up his normal amount and shoot somewhere in the 30s (hopefully he ticks back up towards the high 30s this year). We know Russ and Gordon are going to struggle from 3. Watson and Strawther are both huge wildcards. Neither have shown the ability to consistently hit NBA 3s yet, but they're both obviously still growing their games and we don't know where they'll top out.
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Post by JB on Sept 29, 2024 13:36:16 GMT -5
I still can't believe Tim traded his second best player of a team that just made the WCF in the first time in two decades for the most overrated player in the league, a quality backup SG and a fake first that will never convey.
and the worst part is he still might not even be able to keep Naz if a team maxes him out in UFA and Randle picks up his 31m PO.
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Post by scooter on Sept 29, 2024 17:48:52 GMT -5
I still can't believe Tim traded his second best player of a team that just made the WCF in the first time in two decades for the most overrated player in the league, a quality backup SG and a fake first that will never convey. and the worst part is he still might not even be able to keep Naz if a team maxes him out in UFA and Randle picks up his 31m PO. Connelly doesn’t own the team just like Booth doesn’t own the Nuggets. Going so deep into the tax starts to lead to red ink unless you have one of the teams at the top of local revenue, and the Nuggets and TWolves are not that. I have no idea if or how the TWolves murky ownership situation factored into this decision, but it seems mostly motivated by $$$. I’m not a big Towns fan, so I don’t blame the TWolves for moving him. He’ll likely disappoint the Knicks’ faithful sooner or later, although the crappier eastern conference elevates the odds of a KAT team making it to the Finals. |
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Post by famicommander on Sept 29, 2024 19:25:56 GMT -5
I still can't believe Tim traded his second best player of a team that just made the WCF in the first time in two decades for the most overrated player in the league, a quality backup SG and a fake first that will never convey. and the worst part is he still might not even be able to keep Naz if a team maxes him out in UFA and Randle picks up his 31m PO. The Wolves don't have money. For them it's not a matter of their megabillionaire owning being willing or unwilling to spend above a certain amount. They just plain don't have it. The new owners bought the team on freaking layaway. |
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Post by LotharBraunBrownBryant on Sept 29, 2024 19:28:58 GMT -5
There's also the reality that, if you go over the apron to keep a guy now, you can't keep or bring in other guys later. Even if the financial penalties were meaningless ownership (which they're not), the competitive challenges of an apron team where you can't bring in even TPMLE players means we'll probably see a lot of teams with multiple max-level guys make cost-cutting moves around whoever they perceive as their 3rd-5th players, based on their evaluation that the dropoff there isn't as big as the gains they could make with maybe their 6th-8th players if they have a little more flexibility. Add that on top of ownership caring about the money, and probably most teams outside of the huge-market contenders are going to avoid the 2nd apron if they possibly can.
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Post by TNF on Sept 30, 2024 11:58:09 GMT -5
Dikembe - 58
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Post by TNF on Sept 30, 2024 11:58:39 GMT -5
Dead . crying
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Post by JB on Sept 30, 2024 12:48:53 GMT -5
what a loss. Deke was a great player. great ambassador for the game. great guy that genuinely cared for the Congo and Africa. I'm glad he got to see us retire his jersey. |
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Post by TNF on Sept 30, 2024 12:51:57 GMT -5
Dikembe-on-floor was THE greatest Nugget's moment until they won the championship.
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Post by famicommander on Sept 30, 2024 13:58:49 GMT -5
Embiid claims he's lost 30 pounds in an effort to stay healthy and is now "done" focusing on individual awards.
If he'd done this 8 years ago his career path could've been so much different and so much better.
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Post by famicommander on Oct 12, 2024 0:36:58 GMT -5
Gillespie through 3 preseason games:
8/15 FG
4/8 3PT
8/9 FT
28 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, 3 steals, 5 turnovers, 4 fouls in 33 minutes
He looks like he has a firm grasp on the #3 PG spot there, ahead of TyTy Washington Jr and behind Tyus Jones and Monte Morris. But the Suns are wisely carrying two two-way point guards so they don't run out of man-games.
If everyone is healthy for them you'd expect the guard rotation to be Booker, Jones, Beal, Allen, and Morris for the most part but obviously that's a big "if".
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Post by nuggetshipster on Oct 12, 2024 4:18:39 GMT -5
Ill always wonder why so many Nuggets fans didnt like CG. Seemed like an amazing dude and his ball skills was obvious to anyone that watched him play
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Post by nuggetshipster on Oct 12, 2024 4:19:55 GMT -5
Lakers crying about going to MIL when we had to travel to fuckign Dubai is peak
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Post by wizardofcozz on Oct 12, 2024 9:14:47 GMT -5
Ill always wonder why so many Nuggets fans didnt like CG. Seemed like an amazing dude and his ball skills was obvious to anyone that watched him play I agree. Anyone with a brain could see CG was way better than Pickett. The issue was we had already given Pickett the contract. Just replacing Pickett eith CG would give me relief in games where one of our PGs rests or us injured. |
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Post by inyourmind on Oct 13, 2024 0:31:02 GMT -5
Ill always wonder why so many Nuggets fans didnt like CG. Seemed like an amazing dude and his ball skills was obvious to anyone that watched him play I don't think anybody disliked CG. He was an awesome practice player and Malone and the team seemed to love him. I just don't care about 13th men. The Nuggets loved CG and didn't keep him. If they had any interest in him playing any kind of role on this team he'd still be here. Honestly part of the reason why I don't care that he's gone. The Nuggets had a long look at him and clearly liked him but weren't ever going to play him in a role that matters. He's clearly better than Pickett. At this point has anybody argued otherwise? While I personally don't think CG ever becomes a rotation player I actually think that's more of a reason to be upset. That you think he could be a legit 15-20 MPG player in the NBA and Malone chose to play the corpse of Reggie Jackson over him. I think he's better but until he becomes a legit NBA player it's just another Julyan Stone situation to me. I remember there being a small group of people that were really upset we lost him. Never truly mattered in the end. |
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Post by nuggetshipster on Oct 13, 2024 3:04:12 GMT -5
Ill always wonder why so many Nuggets fans didnt like CG. Seemed like an amazing dude and his ball skills was obvious to anyone that watched him play I don't think anybody disliked CG. He was an awesome practice player and Malone and the team seemed to love him. I just don't care about 13th men. The Nuggets loved CG and didn't keep him. If they had any interest in him playing any kind of role on this team he'd still be here. Honestly part of the reason why I don't care that he's gone. The Nuggets had a long look at him and clearly liked him but weren't ever going to play him in a role that matters. He's clearly better than Pickett. At this point has anybody argued otherwise? While I personally don't think CG ever becomes a rotation player I actually think that's more of a reason to be upset. That you think he could be a legit 15-20 MPG player in the NBA and Malone chose to play the corpse of Reggie Jackson over him. I think he's better but until he becomes a legit NBA player it's just another Julyan Stone situation to me. I remember there being a small group of people that were really upset we lost him. Never truly mattered in the end. I honestly think Calvin prefers keeping «his guys». Thats why CG isnt here, and not because he wasnt good enough |
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Post by nuggetshipster on Oct 13, 2024 3:05:40 GMT -5
And he doesnt have to be a «rotation player» to have value in the NBA.
Easier to load manage Russ and Jamal if you have a good third string (not rotation player)
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Post by scooter on Oct 13, 2024 9:42:14 GMT -5
I don't think anybody disliked CG. He was an awesome practice player and Malone and the team seemed to love him. I just don't care about 13th men. The Nuggets loved CG and didn't keep him. If they had any interest in him playing any kind of role on this team he'd still be here. Honestly part of the reason why I don't care that he's gone. The Nuggets had a long look at him and clearly liked him but weren't ever going to play him in a role that matters. He's clearly better than Pickett. At this point has anybody argued otherwise? While I personally don't think CG ever becomes a rotation player I actually think that's more of a reason to be upset. That you think he could be a legit 15-20 MPG player in the NBA and Malone chose to play the corpse of Reggie Jackson over him. I think he's better but until he becomes a legit NBA player it's just another Julyan Stone situation to me. I remember there being a small group of people that were really upset we lost him. Never truly mattered in the end. I honestly think Calvin prefers keeping «his guys». Thats why CG isnt here, and not because he wasnt good enough Fans in the cheap seats like us thought the exact same thing about Connelly and I doubt it was very true then and I’m confident it isn’t now. I’m even more confident now, since Booth doesn’t hang around the team much at all and doesn’t seem to have a personal relationship with any of the players. I think the FO just didn’t think that much of 25 year old Gillespie, beyond that maybe he was good enough to be a 15th man type. I’m pretty sure they thought he’d always be a big defensive liability and that his offensive skills were not strong enough to outweigh that. |
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Post by GBG on Oct 13, 2024 11:19:56 GMT -5
I honestly think Calvin prefers keeping «his guys». Thats why CG isnt here, and not because he wasnt good enough Fans in the cheap seats like us thought the exact same thing about Connelly and I doubt it was very true then and I’m confident it isn’t now. I’m even more confident now, since Booth doesn’t hang around the team much at all and doesn’t seem to have a personal relationship with any of the players. I think the FO just didn’t think that much of 25 year old Gillespie, beyond that maybe he was good enough to be a 15th man type. I’m pretty sure they thought he’d always be a big defensive liability and that his offensive skills were not strong enough to outweigh that. You just described a crappy front office, which I don’t think our FO is. If indeed Booth thought (and continues to think) that Pickett is a better player than CG, which is ostensibly why he drafted him and handed him a standard NBA contract rather than promote CG and give him that contract while making Pickett the 2-way PG in the summer/fall of 2023, then that is crappy player evaluation. You and I weren’t quite sure who was better a year ago, I’ll admit, but we are just fans in the cheap seats, as you put it, and our FO and GM are supposed to have much better player evaluation tools than we do. This whole situation is why I’m not as confident in the Calvin Booth administration as I could be. Let’s hope for a fun season, but the CG versus Pickett mistake stings a little bit and makes fans like me doubt our GM’s skills to a small degree. |
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Post by famicommander on Oct 13, 2024 11:35:33 GMT -5
for the 10 billionth time, the choice this season was not between Gillespie and Pickett. It was between Gillespie and Spencer Jones.
So to let Gillespie go for nothing you have to make the case that Jones can or will help us more than Gillespie could or would.
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