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OT: Nuggets Coach Fired

The season ends in a week and they fire their all time winningest coach right before a playoff run? What a slap in the face.

They are the 4th seed. I love watching Jokic but I hope they flame out in round 1.
 
They're a half game away from the 8 seed, which is a very possible destination for them with Murray out.
 
nomar said:
Fired the GM, too.

Unless Jokic hated these guys, I don't get it.
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There were a lot of indications that Malone had lost the locker room. And so if you're going into the playoffs with a guy the players aren't listening to anymore, you're gonna lose. And you can't afford to just piss away a year of Joker's prime like that.

Anyway, I give Malone a lot of credit for figuring out the defense a couple years ago. But this team should never have been so helpless, offensively, as they have been without Joker.

  • They're dead last in the league in guard/guard screens
  • They don't run any of the off-ball stuff for MPJ (who's a 6-foot-10, 50/40/80 shooter) as the Dubs did for Klay
  • They haven't tried any transition-based stuff with Gordon as a smallball 5

He just hasn't been a problem solver at all. If I were running the Nuggets right now I'd probably roll the dice on the devil you don't know, too.

As for Booth... I think he's a bit underrated (he's done a good job of drafting guys who fit around Joker -- POA defenders, long help defenders, shooters) but I don't think it's a disaster to fire him or anything, because his cap management has not been great.

The timing is weird, obviously, but I get it.
 
nomar said:
Fired the GM, too.

Unless Jokic hated these guys, I don't get it.
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I don't get the timing of it but their fans were fed up with Calvin Booth. They should've been building off their championship with Jokic and instead they're getting worse. They don't stop anyone on defense and they're always the worst team in the NBA with Jokic on the bench. You can't waste these prime Jokic years.
 
Matrim55 said:
There were a lot of indications that Malone had lost the locker room. And so if you're going into the playoffs with a guy the players aren't listening to anymore, you're gonna lose. And you can't afford to just piss away a year of Joker's prime like that.

Anyway, I give Malone a lot of credit for figuring out the defense a couple years ago. But this team should never have been so helpless, offensively, as they have been without Joker.

  • They're dead last in the league in guard/guard screens
  • They don't run any of the off-ball stuff for MPJ (who's a 6-foot-10, 50/40/80 shooter) as the Dubs did for Klay
  • They haven't tried any transition-based stuff with Gordon as a smallball 5

He just hasn't been a problem solver at all. If I were running the Nuggets right now I'd probably roll the dice on the devil you don't know, too.

As for Booth... I think he's a bit underrated (he's done a good job of drafting guys who fit around Joker -- POA defenders, long help defenders, shooters) but I don't think it's a disaster to fire him or anything, because his cap management has not been great.

The timing is weird, obviously, but I get it.
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Thanks for the explanation. I guess the answer is it took longer than it should have to arrive on a strategy, but once you decide, you need to pull the plug.

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The owner didn't want to pay the tax penalties for Bruce Brown and KCP, creates alot of pressure on Booth to nail the right draft picks in the late first round/2nd round that can step in and play right away. Braun is the only one who can actually play in the playoffs right now, Watson can defend but teams won't guard him on offense.
 
The Nuggets are a casualty of the new CBA. They had to offload their best depth pieces for nothing

Jokic is having the best individual season in the history of basketball and they’re half a game above the 8 seed (to be fair the West is insanely good) because they had to replace KCP, Bruce Brown, Reggie Jackson, and Jeff Green with 36 year old Russell Westbrook. That’s a losing scenario no matter what
 
As a nuggs fan Malone was dealt a crap hand here. the finger pointing starts with the owners who refused to go into the apron for a backup big man. Best they could do was 45 year old Deandre jordan and Dario Saric.

It was well known there was tension between Malone and Booth re bringing in vets versus playing rookies and again I side with Malone. you have to go all in with joker now not worry about what the team will look like in 4 years when joker could be retired on his horse farm.
 
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Didn't the nuggets pull this kind of thing with George Karl too? Dude literally won coach of the year the same year they fired him.
 
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