Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic, And The Contender Nuggets (johnwilmeswords on how Denver has finally formed back into a true showcase squad and worth falling in love with)
, a verb was born: going forward, no one will be unsure what it means to say someone “just got Landry Shamet’d on.” . Gordon has been excellent all year, having clearly the best season of his career—despite Nikola Jokic contending for an MVP trophy for a third-straight season and Jamal Murray’s return to the lineup, Gordon’s usage is a tick higher than it’s ever been in Denver, and the first-place Nuggets are better off for it.
His time with the Nuggets has been modest, thus far, generally ceding the spotlight to Jokic’s brilliance or to anxiety about Murray’s ACL injury, which stopped a title-contender dead in its tracks two seasons ago.
And as new teammates Bruce Brown and Caldwell-Pope acclimate more to the Jokic realm, and old ones in Murray and Michael Porter Jr. fully re-establish their place in it, the Nuggets should look more and more like a top choice to come out of the Western Conference playoff bracket on top. There is still a ways to go, though—only Gordon, among this group, was here last year, so the calibration process is very much underway.
There may be a need for an extra piece off the bench for Denver, as well; Bones Hyland is one of the worst defenders in basketball, and hurts the team badly when he isn’t shooting hot, and DeAndre Jordan is simply not playable in high-leverage games at this point of his career. Brown and Jeff Green can be trusted as reserves, but that only makes Denver reliably seven-deep. There’s room for addition on the trade market.
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