Adam Mares

When he can play the center, you go with him, Spencer, Peyton Watson, that's a big small ball lineup.

In the regular season right now on a minute restriction, they can't go to that as much, but he seems very happy with what he's seeing out of that group as a second unit that can switch a lot.

He did say he thought the key to that lineup though on the offensive end is going to be getting the ball to the slip.

You're gonna trap Jamal Murray in those lineups because there's no Jokic on the floor.

You're gonna try to get it out.

He thinks the team, when they make good reads on those traps and get the ball out to the slip player, they have a lot of success.

So kind of an interesting key for us all to keep our eye on as that unit gets more and more minutes together.

You know, he talked about, when he was asked what he thought of Peyton Watson, what he looked like tonight, he said tired, first and foremost.

But he thought he played well.

He just said it looked like he's going to take a while to get in shape.

I asked Nikola Jokic about that very question.

You know, he missed similar amounts of time.

I said, how long do you think it takes for you to get back into game shape when you missed that four to six weeks?

And he said he thinks it takes three or four weeks to get in shape.

I'm kind of surprised by that.

That seems longer than I would have guessed.

That would take us to the end of the year.

There's only three or four weeks left, but that's what we should expect for Peyton Watson, I suppose, as he tries to come back from this.

tall, skinny guys.

Like I'll take him three days.