The Nuggets had a veteran to help with the playoff push.

Plus, why Yokic flops.

I'll tell you why on Locked On Nuggets.

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Dot supercast.com and sign up to be an everydayer. There's a link in the episode description here on this pod. This is the 10-0 run, which is something we're starting on Locked on Nuggets. These are going to be shorter episodes, and we won't do these every day, but they'll kind of fill in. Our goal is to be able to make sure that you've got Nuggets content in your podcast inbox or on your YouTube feed about every 12 hours Monday through Friday. And then also we'll do shows on the weekend because we're sickos. So that's kind of the goal. But these are going to be shorter shows. We will have ads in them, but they are going to be shorter shows that shows that you can expect they're going to be solo episodes from me or swipe up or Ryan on today's show i'm going to talk about tyus jones why the nuggets added him um what impact we really think that he can

have and then also i'm going to talk a little bit about the controversy over yokech flopping let's start

by talking about tyos jones so tyos j, the synopsis here is Nuggets add low mistake backup point guard. Everyone has kind of thought that backup point guard was a missing ingredient for the nuggets in terms of being able to have another creator or ball handler or someone who can create offense for them. Now, I think Jalen Pickett's actually done a pretty good job in this role. I don't think that Jalen Pickett's been an atrocious backup point guard. I think if I probably were to rank them all, which I have not, if we go down the list, I'm probably going to wind up being like, okay, he's probably somewhere in the backup point guard range between 20 and 30. And that's like, oh, that's not good. Well, it's not terrible either. Like this is a low bar for a second round pick. And I don't think what you're really trying to do is you're trying to not get past that 30 point where it's like, all right, he belongs is like a 30, one of the 30 backup point guards in the league. Is Tyas an improvement? I honestly don't know. I think it's pretty close because Tyas has really come with some issues lately. One of the key problems that's really hard to tell here, and this is a good indication of how I use stats all the time, and I will tell you very honestly that there's so much that stats do not capture, The problem I think is that when people are just like,

see,

it doesn't capture everything so you can't use it.

Nope,

that's stupid.

That's evidence.

You can actually use it.

You can examine it. We can make theories. We can actually say, like, well, there's evidence of this, that and the other. And the one thing I can tell you is that the evidence points

to the fact that with Tyos Jones on the floor,

your team doesn't work.

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