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DNVR Denver Nuggets Podcast

Will PWAT Become a Starter? Will Nuggets Bench WIN the Non-Jokic Minutes? + More | Bold Predictions

DNVR Denver Nuggets Podcast

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4.7 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Can Peyton Watson earn a starting role for the Denver Nuggets as Denver makes its late-season push? With the Nuggets sitting at 42-27 after a 124-96 win over Philadelphia, David Adelman’s rotations, Peyton Watson’s looming return from a hamstring injury, and the battle to finally win the non-Jokic minutes are all under the microscope in these bold predictions. We break down whether PWAT can shake up the starting lineup, if Denver’s bench can become a real strength, and what it all means for Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and the Nuggets’ playoff outlook in the Western Conference. Eric Wedum, Brendan Vogt, Adam Mares, & Harrison Wind of the DNVR Nuggets Podcast give their boldest predictions for the rest of the Denver Nuggets NBA basketball season.

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0:00.0

And David Adelman have a redemption tour at the end of the season.

0:03.9

What about Cam Johnson?

0:05.1

And what about the Denver Nuggets Bench?

0:06.5

Those are the questions we're asking today as we get bold and give our bold predictions

0:09.7

for the final month of the season, exactly one month left in the NBA season.

0:14.3

Let's get to bold predictions.

0:15.4

Harrison, why don't you start us off?

0:17.0

My bold prediction is that David Adelman will look better in the playoffs than he has in the regular season.

0:25.2

And the reason I think that's going to be the case is I think David Adelman with a full roster and his full complement of guys will be the coach that he was, you know, more so at the very beginning of the season

0:37.7

when we were loving the job he's done.

0:40.3

I mean, David Adelman at his core is a tactician, he's a strategist, he's an exes,

0:45.1

nose guy.

0:46.6

That stuff really only works for the nuggets, I think, when they're healthy, when they have

0:53.1

all their guys.

0:54.2

You know, when he can put the exact lineups that he's putting down on

0:59.1

his whiteboard in his office, when he can put those exact lineups out on the court

1:03.3

because the nuggins are healthy enough to do that.

1:05.4

So I think, you know, his thinking and his exes and his mindset, I think it's going to come together

1:12.8

and we're going to see the best of it again when the nuggets are fully healthy and when he can

1:18.0

really dial in and lock in to an exact game plan, which you have to do in the playoffs.

1:23.2

But Deeline, one of the questions I have about that is what about his demeanor?

1:26.4

Because I do think that his strength is probably coming up with game plans for series and those different things. But it's also about the intensity when it matters and the calm when it matters. This playoffs is not going to be easy. Even if things go great for Denver, it's hard to imagine it not being extremely tense. Can he shine, as Harrison said in that department? I don't know. I really honestly don't know. I do think that he has been great when he had, when everything is going in the direction that he needs it to. We have all his players. It's sort of like you're able to sort of set it and forget it. I've seen Nikoliyokic get more and more boisterous on the bench, which is a good thing. But I do think that there is an element of calling the timeout of the right moment, things where, you know, like there's the strategy of like, do you foul when you're up three, all that stuff that comes down to like really split second decisions where you have to be pretty deft as a head coach.

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