Miroslav Cuk

Handla med minuterna av den kvarande stora trean av Joker, Jamal och Peyton Watson. Hur skulle du stäcka de tre idag? Och hur om alla är tillbaka? Skulle du starta Peyton Watson? Eller kanske spela honom av benet för att det gör det lättare för honom att stäcka med den andra unitten. Eller stäcka utan de andra två personerna.

And another dilemma the Nuggets fans have is more of Peyton Watson versus Christian Brown in the starting lineup because we've seen Peyton Watson being able to play at the shooting guard position as well even though he is more naturally at the small forward position. One thing I want to see from the Nuggets until the end of the season and hopefully we'll have enough health

för det att materialisera. Det är bara 150 eller 200 minuter av öppningsnattstartare, men med Peyton Watson istället för Christian Brown. För det här är en linje som vi har sett zero possessions off. Den här säsongen, den senaste säsongen, vad det är. Det har aldrig hänt. Det är en teoretisk linje som aldrig har hänt. Och det är verkligen en skämd att vi aldrig har fått en glimt av det, för

I think it would be awesome, I think it would be amazing but at the same time how can I be sure when we never saw it coming before.

When it comes to this part of season, the trade deadline part of the season, which is very amusing to a lot of, especially...

More casual fans who are more concentrated on football season and now the football season is almost over. Now a lot of attention goes to the NBA. But what are you focused the most on in this part of NBA season in general? You know, for your work and stuff like that. Yeah, so...

that doesn't hurt our playoff chances and also sets us up for a more successful future. So definitely it's a multi-year thing you're looking at at this time of year. So it's really interesting to me when you mentioned that agents will hire you to make their client look better using the numbers. And I always remember the story about Nikola Jokic versus Josef Nurkic for the starting job on the Nuggets and there was this big

front office dilemma whether they should start a rookie who has been a second round pick or their first round pick from that same 2014 draft class. And the story Josh Cronky mentioned is that they've made a blindfold with two guys and displayed their stats

där George Cronk immediately picked Nikolaj Jokic but the other guy on the pole wasn't Yusuf Nurkic it was Larry Bird from his rookie or whatever age 20 season so are the jobs you get more difficult than that like are there less obvious guys to be promoted in those situations

Ja, det är det. Jag minns att jag en gång gjorde det för Bones Highland. Jag blev inte betalt för det, men jag hittade att Bones Highland hade en av de mest elektriska rookie-säsongerna. För han fick en stor chans på Nuggets när Jamal Murray var skadad. Okej, nu ska vi gå till...

The Nuggets front office moves from last summer. Since I haven't had you on this show since the last July we talked about it just before the start of the season and I have to ask you how did you view the Nuggets front office moves back then versus how do you view them now with the new information available with all the games missed from their main guys?

When you mentioned Jonas Valenciunas trade where the Nuggets practically just gave away the last season of Dario Saric and got back Jonas so Sacramento could spare a couple of five million dollars to be able to sign Danny Schroeder when they are not trying to trade away again.

The moral of the story is just trade with Sacramento Kings. Go in business with Sacramento Kings. By the way, the Nuggets have never dealt with New Orleans Pelicans, which is malpractice. We've seen so many dumb moves by New Orleans Pelicans so far in their history. Hopefully we'll see something in that department. But I don't want to joke too much about stuff like that. How would you compare the Nuggets depth

And the top level talent to those of other contenders like OKC, San Antonio, Houston, Detroit and whoever else you pick in the East. Because I don't really think too much about the other Eastern Conference teams. Yeah, I think if you're just looking at depth, I think you probably put OKC on a different level compared to everybody else. I think they...

Dorian Finney-Smith är bara en ny version av Robert Covington. En spelare som alla vill ha. Han spelar inte, eller när han spelar är han inte så bra. Så på ett visst sätt kommer han bli en minimumsäljare också.

Jag kommer tillbaka till det här, men förväntar du dig att vi kommer att se fler och fler personer som vi känner är bra spelare på en minskad kontrakt? Tänk på alla penaltider från första och andra apron, för jag har tittat på

luxury tax bills for the teams. They're not as big as they used to be. Teams are trying to get under those aprons for sure. We only have Cleveland with just a stupid amount of luxury tax. Everybody else is trying to shrink their extra expenses. Can you see some really solid players like Tim Hardaway Jr.?

Oh, I fully expect Bogdan back in Euroleague next season because I don't think he's going to stay in the States for a minimum deal. He can get that kind of money in Europe with no problems. And there are actually already some rumors about him coming back to Partizan Belgrade, but I don't want to speak about that too much before anything happens. Back to my original question about the top-level talent on the Nuggets compared to the other...

the contenders. Can you see another team that can challenge the group of Joker, Jamal, Aaron Gordon, Cam Johnson, Peyton Watson, uh, like on a starter level? Yeah. So I would say, uh, OKC is right there. Um, but they need their best performance out of Jalen Williams and they haven't always got that this year. Uh,

Så, ja, jag tittar på det som Denver, Houston, Oklahoma City och sedan Detroit, pågående en bra handel. Ja, jag kan agera med det. Okej, låt oss ta en annan kort avsnitt. Och efter det kommer vi att prata om saker som folk kom hit för att lyssna på. Och det är den pågående handelssiffran och vad nuggetarna kommer att vara.