big honey and the nuggets

Last year during the NBA Finals, I wrote about Bruce Brown’s unseen pregame routine.

Here’s a short sequel. Brown now has a 2-hour video saved in his phone that he watches a snippet of before games: a compilation of every basket he made as a Denver Nuggethttps://t.co/JZ1clMVrpH

— Bennett Durando (@BennettDurando) March 11, 2024

this is so sad! bruce come back

seems like a guy thats gonna find his way back to the team

Guys, you should actually read this, Bruce is the best. Here's a snippet: https://t.co/Xszl8nstAb pic.twitter.com/f53rnIA8lI

— Grace (@ErinBurr27) March 11, 2024

literally doing the batman picture frame meme this is down very bad

lol wow yeah

u mean the wolverine picture frame meme

yes the comic book guy in the mask!

haha love that guy

im sure his teammates loved that

yeah definitely got the sense his pacers teammates knew something was up

he should just be happy with his piles of gold

📽️The Nuggets have outperformed their point differential more than any team in the Nikola Jokic era.

Why are they so good in the clutch? And what makes them so formidable against the best teams? https://t.co/HQOLNPsb4N

— Ben Taylor (@ElGee35) March 11, 2024

bookmarking this to listen to, something I’ve been thinking about recently

i bet having an unstoppable guy has something to do with it

yeah pretty much guaranteed to get a good high percentage look every time just putting the ball in his hands.

also if the timeframe is the jokic era then theyve been pretty good during that while other teams who are good now mightve been bad at the beginning etc

another ghastly half from reggie jackson, who I think is cooked. malone is going to need to figure something out. would love to see strawther get some minutes

just dont play reggie jackson

other options are mostly rookies…but it’s time to figure out what you’ve got

jamal’s had some smooth finishes tonight

the nuggets have “flipped the switch”. jokic had 19 in the 3Q. 23 point deficit now a 3 point lead

this team

jokic has 33-16-11-6-2 and just checked back in

gee, I wonder who deserves the mvp this season?

Jokic did it again lol. Fake ties his shoe so the Nuggets have time to review a play https://t.co/1CLd1pAxth pic.twitter.com/DeRe0MpbOO

— Amit Mann (@Amit_Mann) March 12, 2024

Great quote from Michael Malone.

"Jamal Murray and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope both at the scorer's table said to me, let Reggie [Jackson] ride. Let [Christian Braun] ride. This group is playing well."

"Part of our culture is being selfless. Getting over yourself."

— Matt Brooks (@MattBrooksNBA) March 14, 2024

vibes are quite good

One dribble. pic.twitter.com/asvxlbcnXy

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) March 16, 2024

284 pound jokic leading this fast break sheesh

2012 nuggets were cooking with jet fuel pic.twitter.com/k5HCZPihs7

— z - Molly Smith (@MollySm62661288) March 16, 2024

wistfully remembering the white gazelle era

I want to play on this team

Most highlight filled night of the season. Amazing assists. And ones. Self alley oops off the glass. Record breaking 3s. Multiple no looks passes It had it all. pic.twitter.com/vij7SG7ou7

— will jones ⚒️ (@Will_d_jones) March 22, 2024

the most ethical team

joyous

how frequent are backboard self-alleys in reg season, really? is there any stat that would find that assist and scorer same?

dont think they give an assist for it, def seems like its becoming more common tho, it used to be a real curio

the nuggets of denver are 15-2 since the all star break

(which is good)

Has anyone tried Jokic since? pic.twitter.com/fLYtK2vhl3

— NBAinthezone™️ (@NBAinthezone) March 26, 2024

while I don’t condone violence…this is for sure an interesting inflection point

jokic's game is all finesse and his personality is pretty easygoing, but soft he is not

I LIVE for these conversation about Nikola Jokić pic.twitter.com/9onlgybDFB

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) March 28, 2024

is this the only good player pod?

I've seen a lot of talk from other fan bases about why the Nuggets play Jokic with the starters so many minutes to juice his plus-minus.

It's not to juice his plus-minus.

It's to quite literally keep the Nuggets from bleeding out. pic.twitter.com/1nI0NQ8qVK

— Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) March 29, 2024

this is legitimately obscene

Jamal Murray will not play tonight for Denver.

Malone says he’s getting better but Murray isn’t ready to go out and compete at the level the Nuggets need him to quite yet.

It’s a combination of ankle, shins, and knee bothering him.

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) March 29, 2024

if malone starts reggie I’m calling the police

lmao brunson/hart arguing about the location of the lower defensive box

wonder if thibs listens to the pod

he should have just called in, probably could have cleared things up

that would be a good bit

Jesus, they looked bad last night.

yeah they’re tired and disengaged. jokic is banged up and the only other guy in the rotation who can plausibly create off the dribble is reggie. time to just pull the plug on the season and focus on health

I mean, there is Braun, too, but the whole team just looked exhausted and out of sync last night. They had, what, a dozen turnovers? I guess if there is an upside it's that the remaining games of the season are relatively easy.

braun has no meaningful off the dribble creation skills. he will make a play here and there but he’s not someone you can have fill in as a creator. to his credit he’s a very smart player who knows his skill set and wojt try to color outside the lines much. he’s a very good defender of course

I was really hoping we’d see strawther get some meaningful minutes just to see what he could give us but it’s probably too late to even try now

One of the reasons we've seen Nikola Jokic's shooting efficiency drop is because of WHEN in the shot clock he attempts a shot.

Jokic has attempted 165 shots with under 4 seconds on the shot clock this year, which is 27 more than anyone else.

Jokic has attempted 204 shots with… pic.twitter.com/JLnMSwUGwz

— Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) April 2, 2024

kind of wild he’s got such a lead in both time chunks

maybe he should shoot more earlier in the clock

Best Passer in the Association pic.twitter.com/Vn4ZCjP3bj

— Swipa (@SwipaCam) April 3, 2024

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