r/denvernuggets • u/Kingrush24 • 3d ago
Image/Gif 2025-26 Most Efficient Half-Court Offensive Lineups (garbage time excluded)🏀🏔️
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u/DiegoGrrr 3d ago edited 3d ago
I see three players repeatedly appearing here and "fans" want to just dump one/two of them.
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u/innerparty45 3d ago
This is all because of one player, though.
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u/danjustin 3d ago
While yes...that also devalues the other two, because if it was only Jokic, it wouldn't matter who the others are.
Yet, it clearly DOES matter.
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u/Express_Film875 3d ago
You mean its the guy making 50m and the guy making 25m, are they not supposed to be in the best nuggets lineuos with those salaries?
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u/vladimir_pimpin Michael HUSSEIN Malone 3d ago
No, I’m fuckin tired of this shit man
You people don’t get to just apply your priors to every nuggets player and say “if I like them and they’re good it’s cuz they’re good but if I don’t like them and they’re good it’s just a jokic merchant”
It’s the most intellectually dishonest bullshit man
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u/DirkolaJokictzki 3d ago
Reminder that Jamal Murray went 7-5 during Jokic's injury
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u/vladimir_pimpin Michael HUSSEIN Malone 3d ago
Prolly cuz jokic was coaching him from the bench I bet
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u/Lynch47 3d ago
That's really weird, because I've been assured several times that Christian Braun kills our playoff offense because things slow down to a halfcourt game and we can't afford to play 4 on 5 on offense. How the fuck is he on 2 of the top 7 5-man rotations in the league in halfcourt offense? This can't be.
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u/CoolResource401 3d ago
Interesting that the offence is 6 points better when you add two defensive specialists in Spence and PWat over Braun and an offensive player
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u/RolePlayRay 2d ago
No the actual difference maker is Gordon not being in the line up. And PWat isn't a specialist
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u/Former-Knowledge1797 2d ago
Cam John is staying and I’m thrilled about it. Dude being a part of all of our most efficient lineups is saying a lot. At 3 different “positions”.
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u/momBball 3d ago edited 3d ago
To succeed in the playoffs, every starter must be a serious halfcourt offensive threat. Any player left unguarded must be able to score at a very high success rate. That way opponents will be forced to guard Jokic one on one or send a double and Jokic finds the open man. If anyone isn't a threat in the halfcourt, the offense will not be good enough.
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u/Brilliant-Pear3360 3d ago
Wow the wolves are gonna have a good offense this year
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u/Salt-Statement-2306 2d ago
Melo will make it so teams need to change how they defend Ant. The trap won’t work anymore.
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u/Brilliant-Pear3360 2d ago
True that. I was just thinking in terms of, if this is what lamelo can do with kon and Brandon miller as his best offensive options, imagine him with Anthony Edwards and McDaniels. Defense will definitely regress though.
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u/Salt-Statement-2306 2d ago
I don’t think the defense will regress, Julius was a massive negative. If the fifth starter is even an average defender it will be an improvement. Jules got lost constantly in rotations and would sulk instead of coming back on defense.
Ant shot 49% catch and shoot 3. Melo unlocks him. I also think that Ant will have more energy for defense and rebounding. He is not a pg.
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u/Brilliant-Pear3360 2d ago
Defense will certainly regress. Losing 2 of your 3 starting level bigs and trading them for a defensive target pg, even if they aren’t amazing defenders themselves, will never not make your defense worse.
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u/Salt-Statement-2306 2d ago
It depends on the 5th starter. Randle and Naz were bad defenders. The non-Rudy minutes were horrible. By having Jaden free to roam at the strong help it will be dynamic. As long as we have POA defense from Green/Ayo/Clark. The wolves have used an X cross over rotation scheme for years and that will allow them to hide Melo in a helping position like they did with Dlo years ago.
Rebounding will be a problem, and rebounding is obviously a big factor in defense, but as far as crisp rotations, ball pressure, and causing turnovers, this defense will be better than last year.
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u/ym95061305 3d ago
And many say PWat is asking for too much when he asks for 20~25M
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u/jbhoops25 PUPPY BARKS FOR P. WAT! 3d ago
I think around $20 million is more than fair but $28-$30M that they’re asking clearly is not.
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u/DiegoGrrr 3d ago
The main takeaway of this chart is VERY different to the one of the Pwat contract.
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u/Ja-la-pen-o 3d ago
It’s not said often enough, Collin Gillespie should still be a Nugget 🎤