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Now, here is your host from Denver Stiffs.com, Adam Mades.

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Welcome to the Locked on Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown NBA Network Network. I'm your host, Adam Mattis from Denver Stiffs.com, the largest

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and Twitter. Today's episode of the show. It's going to be kind of a recap of the season so far.

I just feel like this is a halfway point of the season, especially for the Denver Nuggets,

because they are getting so many guys back from injury, that I just thought it'd be neat

to kind of look back player by player, line by line, and just kind of talk about which guys

have stood out, which guys have looked good so far, and talk about things I want to see from

every player.

So that's what we're going to do with this episode.

So let's dive right into it.

And the first player we're going to start with, of course, who else would we start with?

Nicola Yokic.

Having what I think is the best season of his career, 20 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists.

If you look at his per 36 numbers compared to previous seasons, he's pretty much up in every category. His rebounding, I think,

is right on par with last season, but everything else, you know, up. His field goal percentages a little

bit down. He is the second best effective field goal percentage of his career. Effective field goal

percentage just factors in the value of three-pointers and two-pointers. So it tells you, it's a really good indicator of how well a guy

is shooting the ball, not counting free throws. And the only season that's better so far has

been his sophomore season, which was sort of like a historically great season from the mid-range.

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