Why didn t Thomas play in the Nuggets? Is it because Malone is inferior to Carlisle or other reasons

Why didn't Thomas Bryant play in the Nuggets? Is it because Mike Malone is inferior to Carlisle, or is it something else? What does the experience of Harten, McGee and others in the Nuggets show? Brothers, please like, bookmark and follow us. Let’s quickly return to Colorado to find out! In the sixth game of

Pacers eliminated the Knicks, Thomas Bryant came on as a substitute for 13 minutes, made three consecutive three-pointers, scored 11 points, 3 rebounds and 1 block. When he was on the court, the Pacers won 7 points! The Pacers played against the Bucks and the Cavaliers in the first two rounds. Mopp had time in Carlisle's rotation. When playing against the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Final, the Pacers encountered the Knicks crazy chasing points in the first two home games. Carlisle tightened the rotation slightly and did not let the Mopp play. However, in the critical game, Mopp used these 11 points to play his masterpiece in the playoffs! Nuggets reporter Will Peterson immediately tweeted, complaining that Malone had DNP Mop in 23 years, and suggested that Harten and McGee had not gotten a chance in the Nuggets either. So why can't these centers who look pretty good?

Friends who have played in the NBA know that with the blurring of 5 positions in modern basketball, it is common to have two small forwards or two double-season guards on the court, but the configuration of two centers is still very rare unless you have a three-point shooting range like Towns. So in the Nuggets with Jokic, Mopp, Harten and McGee can only get help from this super core from the field. It is impossible to get Jokic bonuses like defenders and forwards on the field. Harten later played the season with the highest assist rate in his career in 22 years with the Clippers. I don’t know if this has anything to do with Jokic training together, but at least he performed pure blue-collarly in 21 years and was not good at endings, so that year the Nuggets exchanged McGee from the Cavaliers, the starting center who was the champion of the Lakers the year before. But whether it was in the Cavaliers, Lakers or later the Suns, McGee started playing time at 15 minutes, but only played for 13.5 minutes with the Nuggets. Coincidentally, Thomas Bryant, in the 23rd season, played his best season after a serious knee injury in the first half of the season. He averaged 12.1 points per game and shot 65.4%. Since the Lakers' record before the trade of the competition that season was only 14th in the Western Conference, the attendance rate of the first half of the season of the dynasty was again at a stand-alone, which made Mopp, who was expected to get a big contract with outstanding performance, feel dissatisfied. "Brother, can you play? If you can't play, don't delay my family, okay?" So the Lakers sent Mopp to the Nuggets, whose substitute center is Jordan Jr., on the deadline, the Lakers sent Mopp to the Nuggets, where only Jordan Jr. However, Mop will definitely feel regretful. He only played 18 games in the Nuggets, his playing time dropped sharply to 11 minutes, his score shrank to 4 points, and his shooting percentage dropped to 48.5%, which directly led to his performance in a market of 10 million, and he could only get more than 2 million a year. I watched the water dispenser throughout the playoffs and did not get a minute of playing time. It is worth mentioning that the Lakers have to go to the Nuggets in this trade in three second rounds, and later they took Russell to exchange for electric fans in these three second rounds.

But Booth, who was criticized by Nuggets fans, did not encounter any complaints about this matter. First, it was because the Nuggets won the championship that season and the new labor-management agreement was later issued, and people did not realize the importance of the second round; second, it was because, after all, Bryant was different from Reggie Jackson and Saric. He had already fallen out of rotation in other teams before he came. He had real combat power, and there was nothing wrong with it if he changed it. The joyful atmosphere of winning the championship also brought the reputation of head coach Ma Long to a new high, so no one questioned his little matter of DNP as a substitute center who was not suitable for the local environment.

But as the Nuggets' substitute lineup became increasingly weaker in recent years and the conflict between Malone Booth was revealed, both were finally dismissed. People began to realize that in addition to Booth's unimprovement when running the team, it seemed that Malone had problems with the use of non-supportive centers. After all, whether it was McGee or Mop, they had good condition before and after coming and left. Just under your hands, Malone had a bad history. McGee and Harten were even people during the Connery era. You can't get involved in palace fighting, right? In Malone's short coaching experience before the Nuggets, he had only used a supportive center like Cousins. Do you really don't use a cake-type center?

In fact, this problem is all blamed on Malone. You should know that McGee has James and Rondo in the Lakers, Paul and Booker in the Suns, and even in the half season with the Cavaliers, he also has a sophomore Garland with an assist rate of 30.9. McGee only partnered with Jamal Murray in one game when he went to the Nuggets. Murray suffered a cruciate ligament torn on his knee. After that, only the defenders around him were Campazzo and Rivers Jr. None of them could play with the pick-and-roll. The two best periods of mop's career are: one in the Wizards in 18-21, and the other in the first half of the season with the Lakers in 23. During this period, the point guards around them were either Wall before the Achilles tendon injury, or Westbrook, who could average triple-double. Their ability to feed the center is a strong point, and you cannot ask the Nuggets defender who plays the pass and cut must also have this ability.

So, the guard of Jamal Murray is very suitable for core centers like Jokic in terms of size, off-ball habits, and hard-resolving projection. Jokic's solid screen quality and ability to handle the ball twice after pick-and-roll can also make the pick-and-roll ball awareness that Murray is not good at looking good. How to say that, since Murray has other advantages, he doesn't have to play the ball when pick-and-roll with Jokic, just enough. But this leads to Jokic being the most suitable center for Murray, but other centers are not suitable for Murray. The other Nuggets' defenders, at least at the age of the Nuggets, no longer have the ability to rely on pick-and-roll to drive the center to play. Reggie Jackson led Jordan Jr. to defeat the Clippers, and it was only two years since he saw such a game. Even a small sample was not considered a small sample, and it could only be considered a corpse blown up.

Then this triggered another discussion. In an era when support centers are not common, and there are almost no substitute centers that can support, what should the centers in the Nuggets connect? You don’t have a defender who can play a simple pick-and-roll feeding cake, and even after watching McGee and Mop’s experience, it’s a question mark whether anyone will choose to join the Nuggets on their own initiative. No matter how much Jokic plays for the full playing time, he will never be able to play 48 minutes in every game. Do you hope for Holmes, whose Achilles tendon has broken? Or are you looking forward to what contract Najib, who is not suitable for playing center, deserves?

Brothers, who do you think the Nuggets should take the blame for the experience of Mop and McGee? Is there any way to find the Nuggets' substitute center? Please leave your opinion in the comment section.