big honey and the nuggets

jumping takes a lot of energy

hollinger:

Jokić’s start, in particular, has been a revelation. If you thought he’d spend his post-championship offseason resting on his laurels and blow off basketball for more enjoyable pursuits like mucking stables, think again. Through seven games, he leads the league in PER with a 33.1 mark, one that would be a record if he kept it up for a full season.

Dig deeper, and the numbers get more hilarious. After mostly abandoning 3-point shots last season, he’s actually taking them again and making 40 percent thus far. He surprised Chicago’s Nikola Vučević by letting it rip on an early-clock pull-up 3 on Saturday. He’s eighth in the league in assists; he’s a 6-foot-11 center, and everyone else in the top 15 is a point guard. Already one of the league’s most dangerous offensive rebounders, his 11.0 percent offensive rebound rate this season would be his first time in double digits in seven years.

Most notably, he’s shooting 69.4 percent on 2s despite the fact that barely one in five of those attempts come at the rim. I’m sorry but … what?!?!? That doesn’t even seem real.

The skill level on some of his shots is simply preposterous. He makes this slow-mo Euro step into a floater over Andre Drummond look like the most casually easy shot attempt; in reality, having the touch for this shot both while taking a shot and decelerating to avoid the charge is something few guards could emulate consistently. It’s just that Jokić makes complicated footwork seem about as challenging as the recipe for ice cubes. This shot also is part of a massive larger pattern: He makes one-handed, on the move, non-rim paint shots like this over and over and over again

Coach Malone said the Jamal Murray hamstring injury is not a “one or two game injury.”

Said this is something that will “be longer than we like” but the Nuggets “need to have big picture in mind.”

Malone said they don’t want it to linger.

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) November 7, 2023

not great

just as long as hes healthy for the offs, seems like hes maybe not a super durable guy, might be good to not play a whole season

plus maybe joker will shoot more

malone is right too with those hammys you really want them fully healed

yah some aren’t meant to be great in the regular

would be good for murray to make the all star team tho

doesnt look that bad

Jamal Murray will miss tonight’s game against New Orleans with a hamstring strain.

Here he is chopping it up with the coaching staff. pic.twitter.com/trpHDQ128E

— DNVR Nuggets (@DNVR_Nuggets) November 6, 2023

yeah should hopefully be a 3-4 game thing

jokic already has a behind the back pass to a wide open layup and a through the legs backward pass tonight, neither of them led to buckets tho

2021 jokic out there tonight with murray out. this is the future lagoon wants smh

hell yeah lets do this

the pels shot like 75% on jumpers in the first half it was not too cool to watch

you know what they say its a shooting league

jokic first dunk of the season!

julian strawther!! love this kid

jordan hawkins from uconn (the best college) is having an insane game this guy is steph curry

hard to even describe what’s going on right now, jokic is out and the nuggets rookies are like the harlem globetrotters now, what an insane run

jokic finishes with 35-14-12. nuggs out score the pels 75-45 in the second half. sick game

Sequence of the Year. pic.twitter.com/uUWA81MouT

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) November 7, 2023

sick

wed night espn nugs v dubs baby

Most 2-pointers from 5 feet and out (plus FG% on those shots)

Nikola Jokić (45 2P, 75.0 FG%)

Kevin Durant (43 2P, 47.3 FG%)

Cam Thomas (34 2P, 50.0 FG%)

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (30 2P, 49.2 FG%)

DeMar DeRozan (30 2P, 36.6 FG%)

— Andy Bailey (@AndrewDBailey) November 7, 2023

Bench guys stepped up last night.

it was incredible to watch

jokic already has a behind the back pass to a wide open layup and a through the legs backward pass tonight, neither of them led to buckets tho

― k3vin k., Monday, November 6, 2023 9:32 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nikola Jokic made these two passes in a four-minute span. pic.twitter.com/oR6IKrsAlY

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) November 8, 2023

murray out a month :/

ESPN Sources: Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray will be likely sidelined for the remainder of the month because of his right hamstring strain. pic.twitter.com/yfdxUZ5bkK

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 8, 2023

ban legs

remainder of the month is better than a month

three weeks honestly not that bad

my 9 year old shook me to wake me up this morning and when i came to... "dad.... warriors play the nuggets tonight, should i wear my curry jersey to school?"

best alarm clock ever

DeAndre Jordan was on The Great American Baking Show (Celebrity Holiday Edition)

𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩:

Jordan was one of six contestants along with Arturo Castro (Broad City), Ego Nwodim (Saturday Night Live), Joel McHale (Animal Control), Heather McMahan (Everything's… pic.twitter.com/hlbM7bNwRR

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) November 12, 2023

heh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-tw-m6WsAALs25?format=jpg&name=medium

I’m sorry was that random shot in the middle…lefty?!?!? pic.twitter.com/YxStTZYfaF

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) November 12, 2023

that lefty three looks pretty good…

https://stathead.com/basketball/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=perchoice&player_id1=jokicni01&p1yrfrom=2021&p1yrto=2024&player_id2=jordami01&p2yrfrom=1990&p2yrto=1993

just something I’m keeping an eye on…

ESPN Sources: The Denver Nuggets’ Michael Malone — who led the franchise to the 2023 NBA championship — has agreed on a contract extension that’ll make him one of the league’s highest paid coaches. pic.twitter.com/klyGsLSYKO

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 13, 2023

malone extended

riding the gravy big honey train

local sportstalk is all “props” vs “wt actual fuck” as u might guess.

mostly props tho.

lol i think he gets a lotta love from “lol impaired parade malone” feels, which tbf is also pretty great.

idgi why wouldnt they want him extended

he wasn’t the most popular coach before last year, he’s not like a pop or spo level genius or anything, can be very stubborn…the players like him tho mostly

i mean they won the chip theres nothing else to talk about

who's the worst coach to win a title? is there anyone worse than Bud?

why is no one engaging with my jokic vs MJ post I know u read it, don’t be rude

jordan is better imo

saw a stat today in reference to harden being too ball dominant to ever win a title it was something like no player who was top three in the league in usage has ever won a title in that season, except for jordan who did it six times

this is why you say jokic should shoot more

no i say that just because i want to see what happens, like an experiment

malone's personality and stubbornness is probably a bug not a feature, that team is full of chill guys so it makes sense to have a coach who's willing to rock the boat sometimes

oops a feature not a bug, i'm tired