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This episode of the show is going to be on Nicola Yokic, the first player in my end-of-year

review, sort of an evaluation.

I want to go through every single player on the roster, at least not the guys that are expected

not to retire, probably won't get to Richard Jefferson but you know most of the guys I do want to talk about and just kind of

evaluate their year I think it provides interesting talking points and is a good

launch pad into this offseason ahead of the nuggets having to enter free agency in the draft

and all of that stuff so looking forward to this one starting, starting with Yokic, because, of course,

he's the most important player, the best player, and everything starts with him, so we might as well

start these evaluations. In the first segment, I'm going to talk about Yokic's successes this

season, sort of the good things that happened. In the second segment, I'm going to talk about the bad stuff.

And then in the third one, I'll talk about ways he can improve this summer

and kind of the things I'm hoping he can add to his game over the course of the summer.

So the first thing up, first step is the successes or all the good stuff that went on with him this year from a

basketball standpoint. I think the number one thing for Yokic, in my opinion, the number one

improvement that he made this season, the biggest leap that he made, really was a mental one.

You know, I've talked about this a lot on the show, so if you listen to every episode

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