Could Zach LaVine save Denver Nuggets season?
Swipa and Ryan discuss the recent rumor that the Denver Nuggets are targeting Zach LaVine and whether adding the Chicago Bulls shooting guard would bring Denver closer to championship contention.
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37 Comments
No
Sounds like a bad idea on paper
The answer is no. He wouldn't. He would get hurt like he always does. Trade away your second best rebounder for a smaller player, who is worse on defense, and is more Injury prone, with a more expensive contract? Swipa I love you but you are way to doomer. I don't see how adding another attacking player and making our team smaller solves our problem of poor defense.
Package CB or PW with Naji and get a couple players that can get on the court
Fuck it let’s make it happen Mike is useless without Jokic out there and Jamal looks washed, if this team is not gonna defend and rebound let’s get a consistent no 2 scorer
Everyone keeps talking about trading for Zach LaVine, but has anyone considered whether the Chicago Bulls would even want MPJ and Zeke Nnaj? This feels like a one-sided discussion.
I love this trade idea. Lavine would free up pressure off of Murray. Adding more athletic dynamism, ball handling, shot creation, and playmaking, all of which we need badly, ESPECIALLY when Jokic is on the bench. It’s not often that you have the chance to make such an upgrade talent wise in a trade from MPJ to Lavine. He would be an All-NBA player next to Jokic, it would be incredible, let’s make it happen
So… addressing poor balance of the roster by imbalancing it even more… 🤪🤪
Hell no!! Screw LaVine!!
Lets take one more injury pron player. Lets dig ourselves even deeper.
These guys usually echoing Calvin Booths ideas. So this thing is done.
I want MPJ to stay, i like him so much
germany here and we are opposed stop that nonsense! lavine aint even better then MPJ….
You have to do something and this sounds good. MPJ has to be sacrificed because of Murray. We need a downhill ball handler/scorer. It also helps to move off Murray in the off-season, if anyone would take him.
I would trade Jamall Murray Dario Saric for Zach LaVine Talen Horton Tucker
Good question Swipa, if not LaVine something has to be done. nets and hawks (C. Johnson and Finley) Or (D. Hunter and Bogdon). If you trade for lavine then you must start Watson at small forward. Send Braun back to the bench. I wish we stop talking about it and make something happen. It's not fair to MPJ to have that on his mind going out there. Trade the dude already. Is it really about the zeke hold up..hat a fall, e's just 24 years old
i agree. The underrated aspect of the trade would be Lavine's ability to lead the bench. Chicago's bench offense has been really good with him and bad without him this year so far.
the only way I see these guys getting the point that most of us don't want this kind of content is to massively downvote it. pretty sure I am not the only one that feels this kind of "theory-crafting" does more harm than good, especially coming from homers.
At this point, yes. I’d trade everybody except Jokic and Gordon.
Yes, he very well could.
Lavine for mpj is just an older more expensive more injury prone lateral move
How many of the same videos are gonna be made? I feel like I've seen 2 or 3cof these already. That's how you know this will never happen. Lol. A good gm would wait till after the season to make a big move not do it in season. Those never work anyway
Either you ride out the season and trade Murray to fill your real needs in the offseason or roll the dice with Lavine who may end up injured again and not fit well in the system. Calvin has really painted the Nuggs into a corner these past 2 years. Now If you dont make any trades bench Murray until he is completely recovered because 13pts in a game for $208 mil isn't cutting it. CB has fallen off the map too for some reason and the inconsistency is horrible with everyone outside of Jok, MPJ and Russ(mostly). But MPJ is dependent on Jok to play well…lets hope a miracle happens and the problem fixes itself
Everyone ag gets hurt, guess who slides to pf? Mpj. So imagine we do this dumb fucking trade and ag goes down again, lavine aint playing pf so Watson or hunter would start. gtfoh with this nonsense trade and address jamal
Calvin Booth pls make a trade pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MPJ FG 51.7 Zach FG 50.1 MPJ has also more rebound, maybe Zach has more attractive dunks .. or something.. … .. .
Zach has over 100 career 30 point games and MPJ has like 16. So when Jokic is off the floor we will be great 😌!
LaVine is better and more talented than any other player on the Nuggets roster, except for Jokic. Trade for him! It would raise our ceiling to make a chip possible. As is, Nuggets are not a real contender.
80% of all of you commenting how bad Lavine is wrote the same for Russ. All this implies what I wrote yesterday, which is that 90% of all of you who are in the comments have absolutely no idea how a basketball team works, how and in what way one player can contribute to his team even with 19 points per match, the same applies to these podcasters whose job it is to create drama. Denver brought the last player via trade 3 years ago, and that is Gordon, that is imaginable for an NBA teams. Players are fed up with each other, at least two of the current starting 4, not counting the fifth Braun, has to go. We will see if MPJ will leave now and Jamal in the summer, certainly both will leave in the summer.
Wait one year and trade Jammal. He currently seems toxic to the atmosphere in the club. I think there's still a chance for MPJ. Somehow, everyone who signed contracts has become much worse.
Yes If they can get Lavine for Porter Zeke without giving up the 1st
He hasnt been traded so why would you think he would be? I dont think they wanted the deal😊
I would like to see this trade if there is any chance. Murray is struggling playing offense and defense, sometimes he shows he can still be clutch but in the league where you play 80+ games you should be more consistent. MPJ isn't bad but he can't take the ball and be agressive at all so he can't move the defense.
LaVine is not the one who will save Denver's season … Porter will leave for him, and Denver's biggest problem is Jamal … and of course a bad bench.
MPJ is one of the softest players I have seen….I would trade him in a NY second.
100%
No, if it's not about one player, it's about depth.