Tim Legler on Why Jokic's Injury Was a HUGE POSITIVE for Nuggets, Peyton Watson's X-Factor & More
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, legs. Well, Nicole Yokic is finally back. And I mean, somehow the Nuggets have survived |
| 0:05.8 | this stretch without him. 10 and 6 in these games without Nicole Yokic, it's gone way better, |
| 0:12.3 | I think, than any of us here locally anticipated. From your perspective, what's kind of been |
| 0:17.9 | your biggest takeaway from how this team has looked without |
| 0:20.9 | yoke in the lineup? And how have they kind of weathered the storm here? Well, I don't think that, |
| 0:27.5 | you know, anybody could interpret it other than pretty much what you could have done during this |
| 0:33.3 | stretch without Yokic. A lot of people were very concerned about how many places they'd fall in |
| 0:38.1 | the standings while he was out because there was a little bit of uncertainty there at the beginning. |
| 0:42.5 | To go 10 and 6 without him and have, you know, not only Jamal Murray play sensational, most, |
| 0:48.1 | but the way that other guys have played during this stretch. And we know they've, they have other |
| 0:53.3 | guys out eventually you're going to have their whole roster and there's going to be some adjustments |
| 0:56.8 | to the rotation and opportunities. But all in all, I think all of this is going to be |
| 1:01.4 | positive for David Adelman because I think he has discovered things about his team. |
| 1:05.0 | Locuch was out. More guys forced to play extra minutes, extra opportunities really stepped up, took advantage of it. |
| 1:12.3 | That's just going to give them increased depth when they get everybody back. And it's not like |
| 1:16.4 | you can play everybody every night, but there will still be moments in the regular season, |
| 1:20.7 | when you have guys banged up, now you've got other buttons to push. And then certainly when you get |
| 1:25.8 | into the playoffs, you know, you might have a night where one of the guys that's gotten increased run during this stretch |
| 1:31.9 | might have to play really significant minutes in a quarter in a big moment, a big spot. |
| 1:37.0 | And I think they're like to come through now because I think Adelman has found out more about |
| 1:41.3 | his team. I think they have found out more about each other. So it's just about as successful as you could have expected them to be with Yokic out. And now he comes back. And good thing about incorporating a guy like that. I don't think it's too difficult because of his ability to pass to basketball and share it. You know, everybody gets better when he's on the floor. So he's not like an ISO-heavy player. It's going to take a bunch of shots. And that's a different, more difficult kind of guy to incorporate. He comes back in. You pick up where he left out there because of his ability to facilitate the offense. So everything, everything that happened during, you know, this stretch last month, just completely |
| 2:18.3 | positive for the nuggets. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, for guys that were put into the rotation |
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