Let's talk about the Denver Nuggets, another team that didn't have a ton of turnover, but also I think is one of the more fun teams in the league to analyze it.

And they did at least get some new players. Wilson Chandler is gone. I say a Thomas hit is in. And this is a team that continues its perpetual quest to make the playoffs always a prize made never a bride in that regard.

I'm sorry. I've got a lot of wedding metaphors. Uh, since we're recording this. What I'm about to get married. But at a Mars is going to join us here. I figured by saying your name fast, I can do better in terms of making it sound like I'm pronouncing it well, even though maybe I'm not. How you doing, man?

That's always the key with a tricky name. You just you kind of mumble that part of it. And then you're good. Danny is the one who always messes me up on it. I think because he like he's one of these guys who like goes really far out of his way to like pronouncing.

But sometimes he's going he's got he's messed me up on Donchich now too. Uh, he's telling me it's done. Cheat. And then all these people are like, no, no, that's not it. So the nuggets front offices is, you know, a lot of Europeans there.

So anytime I screw up any European players name, I get an earful about it. So now I'm extra cautious and nervous about it.

Yeah, man. It isn't that terrifying though to know that like people who work for teams are actually listening to this. So we can't we can't just like go in on them with cartblops.

Like they're actually going to hear what you say. It is tough. It's one of the tougher parts of the job. But it also, you know, it reminds you there's people involved, which I think is one of the things every every writer has to always be kind of aware of that.

You know, we're analyzing people's jobs and different things. So be honest, but I will say that I can't remember a time that someone from a team has talked to me in a way that I felt was like overly sensitive. Like when they, I mean, and I totally understand.

I mean, it's very human to want to say, hey, you know what? Like this is what you're missing about what we're doing. You know, you'll get you'll that get those sometimes sometimes it'll make some pretty good points and I'll you know, or sometimes we'll just get stuff wrong. And so usually it's something like that. I mean, if they're just like usually if we're like kind of laying into them a little bit. It's usually not mean spirited. So they'll, but they'll understand.

And I'd be like, yeah, you know, that didn't work out too well for us, blah, blah. So I think it's mostly people I talked to are pretty cool about that. But you have to be because, you know, there are a lot of harsh or critics out there that we are probably.

They get paid a lot of money to be criticized. But yeah, at the same time, I mean, you know this too, because you're now a famous internet personate. But, you know, people can be incredibly cruel online, even to even to writers and things. So it really makes you take a step back and think like, you know, you got to be careful and how you phrase things even when you're being critical.

When people are go out of their way to be mean about it, that actually makes it much easier to dismiss because you know that they're you know that they're not actually thinking about it.

They're not coming from a place that actually has some kind of an accrues to it. It's when people actually really try to you're like, hey, you know, I'm a listener. I really like your work. But you know, you screwed this one up in this way. Or have you considered this like those are the ones that actually make me think it and help me get better. If it's just like, ah, you suck Duncan. It's like, all right. Well, it's not going to like that type of stuff.

Like, doesn't bother me at all. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, let's talk a little Denver nuggets here. It made some changes in the off season. And but where you want to start here, usually talk about how the new additions fit in.

But how big is the loss of Wilson Chandler to this team? I don't think for read. You know, he was a depth piece. You maybe could have helped in the event of injury, but wasn't really in the rotation.

Last year, Arthur, same thing, you know, really just never was able to get it going after signing that new contract in the fall of 2016. I think in large part due to injuries, whether it was that weird illness or knee issues or whatever.

But Chandler was in the rotation. He famously played 48 minutes going over three in that final game that they lost in overtime in Minnesota a year ago. So how are you going to miss it? What Wilson Chandler gave them a year ago?

It's going to be that's the most interesting question. I think regarding the nuggets this year because on paper and even, you know, watching the games, Wilson Chandler was the weakest link of the nugget starting five. And the numbers

are just bad that out when they would swap other players in, you know, their offense would go up their defense wouldn't necessarily suffer. But he was, you know, six eight athletic strong guy who can guard who was the only player on the nugget roster that could guard some of your bigger perimeter players, your bigger wings, your LeBron's Carmelo's Paul George's those type of guys.

So on paper, I think, and I actually believe this, I actually think Denver is now going to become the team that they ought to be this high powered offense will Barton at, you know, is another playmaker in the starting lineup. I think their offense goes to a whole new level.

They're not weighed down by some of the things. You know, Wilson Chandler, a very passive player passes up wide open shots record scratches all all of the time.

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