These Are Not Last Year’s Denver Nuggets…
Dan is joined by Adam Mares (Adam_Mares) from DNVR Sports and the All NBA Podcast for a deep dive into the 2025-26 Denver Nuggets. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ALL NBA PODCAST HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbCjMq1m6Kjok4OGuO7CSQ. CHAPTERS BELOW.
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0:00 – INTRO
0:55 – Lessons learned from last season
3:10 – The Cam Johnson fit
5:48 – Defensive changes under David Adelman
10:51 – The Jonas Valanciunas fit
18:46 – Continued development of Peyton Watson
21:02 – Future of Christian Braun
24:02 – Do the Nuggets need to take more threes?
25:43 – Expectations for Jamal Murray
27:51 – How much deeper is Denver?
35:16 – Biggest needs
36:17 – Aaron Gordon is flying under the radar
38:15 – Top-10 rotation
42:03 – Go-to crunch-time unit
43:22 – Wackadoodle lineups we want to see
44:41 – The Nuggets’ front office making a statement
50:10 – PREDICTIONS
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This is a dream pairing for sure.
Really good 😊 Adam is always funny and on point 🎉
Incredible
Always glad to see Adam pop up both here and other pods 💜
Its strange. Mares played bb, should know better. Could`ve learn it better.
Mason Plumlee? BC he`s more Jokic like??
1st – hes not.
2nd – DEN needs something similar, but not necessarily close to Jokic at backup C.
3rd – Jonas is, by far, the best backup C (including plumlee and cousins) that DEN ever had in Jokic era.
4th – Jonas CAN emulate some of Jokic plays very well – he`s already that kind of a player – but MORE – Jonas is a legitimate scoring threat on its own.
Jonas >>>>>> Plumlee… anyone that played bb and knows bb should see that CLEARLY and EASILY.
Jonas is a hooper, Plumlee never was.
get me kessler edwards and russ
Great work gents
Payton is over criticized for his role, i think his role will raise to the level he’s critiqued at this year and just in time to meet the moment.
I think Jokic’s rebounds will go up per 75 but assists and points will go down. Steals sustaining are still a possibility
I love Cam Johnson and really hope he does well in Denver.
Cam Johnson seem to be effective even when he is not scoring which was never the case with MPJ. He was only effective when he was scoring.
JS is a smaller version of MPJ
31:33 Adams Pickett glaze is insane. A full court press will make Pickett unplayable as we have already seen in the preseason against the raptors…
Jokic shot 70% ts in the championship season I think people forget that
That was superb! Thanks, guys.