Welcome back to Smallball with Kenny Beach and we are finally here.

There's no more predictions, no more what-ifs, no more, oh, I think this team could look good

because basketball is finally here.

Every single team has played at least one game and I watched, I can't say I watched

every single game throughout the first three days, but boy, did I watch a lot of them. And today I'm giving my observations. Some of them might be overreactions, but that's what the first week of basketball is about. If your favorite team won by 30, you should act like you just won the Larry O'Brien trophy, man. We've been waiting a long time for this. So I'm going to

talk about the nationally televised game that I'm filming this right after the Divenuggets losing

to the OKC Thunder. Then I want to give y'all seven observations I had based on the first

couple days of the NBA season. Again, some of these might be overreactions, but boy, some teams

I'm really, really excited about. Some teams, I am

some random role players I'm extremely excited about. That's how you know we are stooply locked

into the season. If a Nyeka Akangu and Dyson Daniels get their own segment on the podcast,

yes, it's happening today. And at the end of the show, I'm going to give y'all my power rankings three

days into the NBA season. Is it too early? Probably. But that doesn't matter to me. We hear,

let's talk about this Denver Nuggets game, or I guess the O KC Thunder game. This was very interesting

one. I made a video a little while ago talking about the Denver Nuggets, and one of the

main questions of the entire video was, did I believe the Denver Nuggets championship window had

closed? And I gave it unequivocally, no, it has not, it has not, but it's not close, but it's

slowly closing. This team looks so much different than the team that was the champion a couple

years back. And in this game, it's game number one, and we're going to overreact a little bit. Boy, did they get exposed. There were so many lineups, so many moments in time where the Denver Nuggets had no shooters. This lineup, I'm about to read you, played 11 minutes tonight. 11 minutes and were a net rating of boy minus 105. I don't know the exact number, but I was watching this game like, oh yeah, I can't wait to see their advanced analytics. I know this is about to be bad. It was Jamal Murray, Russell Westbrook, Julian Strother, Peyton Watson, and Dario Scharge. Now on paper, it don't sound too bad, right? Jamal Murray for what worth, good basketball player, even though we got to talk about him in a second

because this is another stinker.

Julian Strother is supposed to be one of the high-volume three-point shooters on the team.

Dario Schardt shot the course of his career has been given the name of a stretch four,

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