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Can Peyton Watson earn a starting role for the Denver Nuggets?
David Adelman have a redemption tour at the end of the season. What about Cam Johnson? And what about the Denver Nuggets bench? Those are the questions we're asking today as we get bold and give our bold predictions for the final month of the season. Exactly one month left in the NBA season. Let's get to bold predictions. Harrison, why don't you start us off? My bold prediction is that David Adelman will look better in the playoffs than he has in the regular season. And the reason I think that's going to be the case is I think David Adelman, with a full roster and his full complement of guys... will be the coach that he was, you know, more so at the very beginning of the season when we were loving the job he's done.
I mean, David Adelman at his core is a tactician. He's a strategist. He's an X's and O's guy. That stuff really only works for the Nuggets, I think, when they're healthy, when they have all their guys. You know, when he can put the exact lineups that he's – putting down on his whiteboard in his office when he can put those exact lineups out on the court because the Nuggets are healthy enough to do that. So I think his thinking and his X's and O's mindset, I think it's going to come together and we're going to see the best of it again when the Nuggets are fully healthy and when he can really dial in and lock in to an exact game plan, which you have to do in the playoffs.
What bold predictions are made for David Adelman’s coaching in the playoffs?
But D-line, one of the questions I have about that is what about his demeanor? Because I do think that his strength is probably coming up with game plans for series and those different things. But it's also about the intensity when it matters and the calm when it matters. This playoffs is not going to be easy. Even if things go great for Denver, it's hard to imagine it not being extremely tense. Can he shine, as Harrison said, in that department? I don't know. I really honestly don't know. I do think that he has been great when everything is going in the direction that he needs it to. We have all his players. It's sort of like you're able to sort of set it and forget it. I've seen Nikola Jokic get more and more boisterous on the bench, which is a good thing.
But I do think that there is an element of calling the timeout at the right moment. Things where, you know, like there's... the strategy of like do you foul when you're up three, all that stuff that comes down to like really split-second decisions where you have to be pretty deft as a head coach. You have to be really involved. And I haven't seen it from him yet, frankly. I just – I haven't. It's not – you know, I came into this year with some hesitance about David Adelman. I don't know that any of it has been quieted. But I do think he at least has the – benefit of just having a very now veteran team led by the best player in the world and so there's a lot of the emotional stuff that probably gets taken off of his plate but there are things that we need to make sure he does he calls the challenge at the right moment like that kind of stuff that i feel like kind of has gotten away from him at various points during this season here's a question for you
Did you think he did a good job in the playoffs last year? No, I didn't. Really? I thought he personally cost us the series against the Thunder. I thought he did pretty well, but I wasn't that mad. But I hated how he managed fourth quarters that entire Thunder series. He wore Nikola Jokic out two games in a row that they could have won. And it just came down to the fact, to the end, where... the OKC Thunder had a rested SGA that was able to come back in and take advantage of a weary Jokic. And that was two games, game five and game six, that I felt like they had, and I don't feel like, they did have big leads, and they let it slip away because of bad management. To your point, though, Wind, I was very impressed with, strategically, what he drew up.
He came up with a defense that flustered Oklahoma City. I thought his finger was on the pulse of that, but in game, there was maybe some...
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