big honey and the nuggets

ESPN diagnose Embiid with the "Serbian Flu"#MileHighBasketball pic.twitter.com/gnE1Ae14W7

— n i k o l a e s t h e t i c (@nikolaesthetic) August 17, 2023

Adam Silver cooked with this schedule. https://t.co/SJQdkeRxAy

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) August 18, 2023

wow

looks like about 15-20 games the clips will be punting next year

someone is going to write an article 10 years from now about how the leonard/george clippers never did anything consequential on the floor but were also the biggest driver of changes off the floor so far this century.

yup, I heard that adam silver sits down every year with a pot of coffee, a calendar, and a sharpie and draws up the nba regular season schedule. it's a scandal, but what can you do?

Heading to Ed Sheeran. pic.twitter.com/X6ZeXnTN3Q

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) August 19, 2023

immensely enjoying the jokic/AG buddy serbia chronicles

This is partly why I will refuse to hear Nuggets comparisons for teams that don’t shoot 3’s.

If your best player has over a 70% TS% inside the arc and generates shots for others at the rim at the highest rate in the league, yeah, you probably don’t need to lead the NBA in 3PA. https://t.co/BSVqu93OTz

— NOLA Analytics (@NolaAnalytics) August 24, 2023

jokic is everything

it very funny he had haters as late as the first round of the playoffs and then everyone just gave up

remember when he didn't win mvp last year that's was great stuff from the narrative shapers

I’m a little mad about that still but he’s the fav to win next year

the voters who got duped by perk have to be feeling some sort of contrition

three years in a row is too much, wouldve been better to give it to embiid the year before tho

hell prob coast next year and maybe not get it

It’s his own fault he didn’t get it

Home court is important for them tho they should def gun for that top spot

it seems pretty obvious that he didn't want it!

Nikola Jokic was shown the below video of Anthony Davis’ comments and he had this to say in response to the Lakers’ power forward https://t.co/TPbjG9k7Fo pic.twitter.com/BW0YcqEtJH

— Kevin (Lifelong CU fan since 9/2/23) (@_Kevlar23_) October 2, 2023

serbian is a weird ass language

Jokic doesn't know who Deion Sanders is 😅 pic.twitter.com/6N8LcdWN65

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 2, 2023

I’d be worried if he did know who Deion is, tbh

haa

Nikola Jokic on if this was the most fun he’s ever had in a summer:

“Nah, I think it’s actually opposite… We played 2 and 1/2 extra months." 😂

(via @9NEWSSports)pic.twitter.com/UVMcKpaEwd

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) October 3, 2023

fuckin love this guy

His combination of frankness and archness and our inability to be sure because jokic owns, it is my new life model

hes def leaning into the schtick

https://x.com/nuggets/status/1711794420419334498?s=46&t=XlsbhgknQH65_CH00_uPqw

aw man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVGI1X6tBfQ

talking myself into julian strawther, playoff rotation player

is that even a real guy sounds like a name you make up under duress

https://x.com/bballbreakdown/status/1716968412407279792?s=46&t=XlsbhgknQH65_CH00_uPqw

if the bench guys can just tread water in the half court, it would be so huge.

Why’d someone clip that with their mouse in the center.

tough out there for a keyboard warrior smh

TY for that endorphin feel—the comment that LA wasn’t that far from making it work also true

https://x.com/swipacam/status/1718071065660837923?s=46&t=XlsbhgknQH65_CH00_uPqw

not possible to judge since the camera couldnt keep up

https://x.com/katywinge/status/1718094575435227319?s=46&t=XlsbhgknQH65_CH00_uPqw

4 the haters

This is the angle pic.twitter.com/G5LufJT7hB

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) October 28, 2023

how do you get it to embed??

change x.com in the url to twitter.com:

i.e. https://twitter.com/ katywinge/status /1718094575435227319

with no spaces

thx!

highlight reel

https://x.com/katywinge/status/1718782583302180878?s=46&t=XlsbhgknQH65_CH00_uPqw

pic.twitter.com/xdw7V4N1tM https://t.co/cS9bCIbQ58

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) October 30, 2023

initial thoughts through three games: obviously the returns have been pretty uniformly positive. it’s actually a pretty surreal feeling to look at the schedule and just feel like the team should win every game, something I’ve never experienced as a nuggets fan in 21 years watching the team. even stranger is the way everyone talks about them, the skepticism has almost completely evaporated across the spectrum from casual to national reporter. the tone reflecting on the win over the thunder yesterday is a perfect encapsulation of this: a lot of talk about how great the thunder look, how much potential they have, and almost an air of indifference to the fact that they lost by 28: you can’t really blame them, they were playing the nuggets, after all. just things you don’t usually hear

the starting lineup as expected has been fantastic: these guys can just read each other’s thoughts at this point. every jokic-based lineup is just murdering. most encouraging is that different combinations of 3- and 4-starter lineups have been more than holding their own, obviously a small sample so far but all the indicators look really good. michael porter has been playing on a bud ankle and is grabbing 11 rebounds a game.

the bench has been really, really encouraging. there is still no can’t-miss “fifth starter” type a la brucie B, but christian braun has been as good as one can hope so far given his experience level. he had 7 rebounds, 7 assists, and zero turnovers yesterday. peyton watson has shown real promise as a prospect, particularly defensively. if his decision-making and execution on offense can just be good enough, he gives the nuggets amazing defensive lineup flexibility with braun alongside KCP and aaron gordon. zeke nnaji and reggie jackson have also done more than enough so far to justify legitimate rotation minutes. and I still think julian strawther will emerge as a 8-10 min a game guy by the end of the year. dude can really stroke it

aside from interior rim protection there’s basically nothing this team doesn’t do well. they can defend/switch multiple positions while putting 5 shooters on the floor, they’re bigger than anyone and completely dominate he glass (which makes up for their lack of rim protection), and most crucially they have utterly insane chemistry.

there doesn’t really seem like there is a team in the west who is anywhere near their level at the moment, but of course it’s a long season and they’re always a key injury away from being mortal. I’m just lucky to be a fan of this team at this moment, really seems like something organic and beautiful that comes along every 15-20 year or so

nuggets fans and media are also just in this insane delirious state, we don’t know how to act fuck all yall

It's kind of reminiscent of when the Broncos first got good in the mid-70s.

Jon Keyworth - Make Those Miracles Happen

Of course, it took the Broncos a couple decades after that to actually win a championship.

i hope colorado goes nuggets i encountered one serious nuggs fan the whole time i lived there

nikola’s shooting 70% on twos and 43% on threes through 4 games

this is also obv a small sample but according to the crude shot distance tracking on basketball-reference: 75% from 0-3 feet, 67% from 3-10 feet, 80% from 10-16 feet, and 67% from 16-23 feet. how are you supposed to guard that lol