Miroslav Cuk

Let's start with Mike this time.

So, Ken, last year, we didn't have Jonas.

We didn't have Tim Hardaway.

We didn't have Bruce Brown.

But we did have Pickett, and we did have, you know, Strother, and we did have...

even Hunter Tyson and Zeke Nagy, and they all look so incapable of playing real NBA minutes.

But this season, something changed for them.

Is it as simple as just changing the coach there, or do you think there's something else to it?

Will, the Nuggets have played 14 games without Joker so far.

We'll see how many more we'll have to endure.

But the record is 9-5 in those.

I thought when the initial injury report of four weeks absence, I was looking at the schedule, it was something like 18 games or something.

And I was thinking, yeah, phew.

They're probably going to go like 8 and 10, 7 and 11, something like that.

And I was trying to figure out how low they're going to drop in the standings and are they going to be able to dig themselves up from the plane and get back to the home court advantage part of the Western Conference bracket.

And now...

When they're still the number three seed, I can rest easy, at least for a second.

Are you surprised?

If I told you four weeks ago they're going to be 9-5 without Joker, what would you tell me?

What do you think, Mike?