The Nuggets Should NOT Be THIS Good
The Denver Nuggets lost Nikola Jokic to an injury a couple weeks ago but instead of falling in the NBA standings they’ve been climbing behind Jamal Murray’s career year, the arrival of Peyton Watson, and great supporting cast play. It’s been wildly impressive as they maintain pace along with the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves in a loaded conference and look like the best team the franchise has ever had.
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0:00 – Intro
1:00 – They’re surviving without Jokic
1:27 – Jamal Murray is All-NBA level
2:35 – Peyton Watson has been insane
3:57 – The depth is elite
4:47 – This shouldn’t be happening
6:31 – And Jokic should be back soon
9:09 – The rest of the NBA
13:10 – Outro
47 Comments
I’m a real one so I say it back 🤞🏾
Hmm 10:38 was that the best pic you had? Lmao
Peyton Watson is so cold, I remember back in 2023 and I always liked the look of him, I always traded for him in Basketball GM and NBA 2k, and its so good to see him playing so well.
Damn nuggets might actually be contenders
I know you’re shaking in your boots cone
Peyton Watson has stepped up BIG TIME!
Yeah they gonna do it. Nearly Had the Thunder already. Roster improved and the old Player all improved. Just braun Fell Off. They gonna do it 100% without injuries of course
Nuggets are better without Jokic. Change my mind
Nuggets got depth in the off season the signings are really benefiting them. And of course Murrays and Watsons leap. Imagine how scary the Nuggets are when Jokic Cam Johnson and Braun are all back to full health. THJ should also be a top contender for 6 moty nobody talks about him.
Three words or less: Hold off Rockets
That was Synthetic Sports on their New Year's resolution in 3 words or less video.
The playoff series versus the Funder will be epic.
Nobody saw this coming
9:12 we won 119-21???
I’m a huge jokic fan but he has no excuses anymore. I think the nuggets are the deepest team in the league. No reason why jokic can’t win a ring this year.
nuggets going 6 and 6 without jokic is definitely a surprise…. but a welcome one…. also… people are acting like they went 11-1 which is a bit overblown…i'm just happy it's not a losing record
Jamalstar my GOAT 🙏🙏
4:07 nnaji just unnecessary that he got that money he never even played
As any Nugget fan I am happy that they are holding without Jokic, plus the development of players like Watson is nice addition. But we have to take in to account that Nuggets are struggling against tanking teams in the league, only quality win they had was vs Boston. Also luckily for them they have in this month 4th easiest scheduled. This is showing that Jokic is important for them but there are multitude of people out there taking this as proof that somehow they play worse with Jokic, or that he is preventing them to play better because by them he is a ball hog. Still I have my hopes up for playoffs, this is indeed strongest team Jokic ever had and anything else but not winning would be without excuses, that is bar injuries.
this is the second time denver has had a complete team (including a bench) and this is the second time they will win a championship (health and refs permitting)
I feel so vindicated!
For the past year and a half I've been claiming that Jokic's ON/OFF numbers look so good because the Nuggets rotations are as bad as Thibodeau's Knicks and people have been calling me context. For context, the Knicks starters would play 65-85% of their minutes with any other starter. Whereas, Every Starter on Denver not named Jokic would play 70-85% of their minutes with Jokic(Jokic's relation would be lower because he played more minutes). It came out of Jokic was on the court, on average 2.5+ other starters were on the court and around 1 would be on the court without Jokic. And everyone always called me stupid and said I didn't understand what I was talking about and that the Nuggets would be the worst team without Jokic, but now here we are with me being right.
And maybe the haters are right and I don't completely understand ON/OFF, but they were equally wrong!
Edit: for clarification, I understand that the Nuggets this year are better than the nuggets last year, but their rotations are still garbage
Jokic injury opened up the floor for so many people to shine
Now yall can stop the “Nuggets would be a lottery team without Jokic” nonsense
In the short term, the Nuggets without Jokic should provide their players with opportunities to show what they can do on the floor. So, this could be good for them come playoff time. I would definitely not try to hurry Jokic back too soon, or overwork Jamal to burn him out or injure him before the playoffs.
This is what happens when joker not playing. They can actually have someone play defense and play team ball. It hard to do that when ur center can’t defend a cone and hold on to the ball most of the time. That why his stats are inflated
I was told the thunder would still be a playoff team with SGA! Nuggets would make the playoffs without Jokic!
I thought Denver would fall apart without Joker🤷his fans said he more important to the Nuggets than SGA is to OKC
How can they keep PWat?
Thunder may have a better record but I believe that this nuggets team are better than the Thunder, Jokic gon win his 2nd chip
The Nuggets are the second best team in the Western Conference. The league has been overdue for back to back champs for a long time. OKC gets it done this year.
9:12 wow what a blowout
Sure they aint bad. But meh most of the oppenents were bad or mid. Besides the celtics. So yeah. But hey atleast they are winning winable games.
People thought Denver would fall in to the playin with all the injuries they had surprisingly they have stayed in that 3-4 seed range. And now they are tied with the 2nd seed again.
The Nuggets always had good players but they’ll coaching staff prioritized the starting group and had bad rotations.
Pray another team doesn’t offer Peyton $20mil annually.
resting for the playoffs….so smart
as a day 1 pwat glazer, its amazing that he’s grown to be this kind of player. to think he was barely even averaging 3 points at ucla. need my heat to snag him in free agency
Healthy Nuggets = Ring.
If (and that’s a big “if” at this point) Denver is healthy, they will win it all.
This is why the "player X doesn't have any help" is and always BS to me. If you are in the NBA you are a great player and have talent. However when you play with a Jokic, Lebron, or Luka their heliocentric play style limits their teammates' abilities. I have always believed Jokic, Luka, Bron should be doing less offensively and put more effort defensively and their teams would be much better especially in the playoffs. You have to give players more defined roles other than "stand around and wait for JokicBronLuka to pass to you" and defend because they aren't.
They might actually give Jokic more rest if they not falling off all of a sudden
Jokic isn't just the best offensive player of all time, he's one of the best players of all time
Have a question for ya, I’m a Nugs fan so i know how good and influencial Jokić is, tho i see a lot of OKC fans saying that their team relies more on Shai than Denver on Jokić, so i wanna ask you whatcha think bc i don’t know OKC that well to make my own statement and with that comes another question who is the MVP for you. Much love❤
Boy please these nugs finna dog the thunder
Jokic the 🐐
David Adelman for COTY. I watch nearly every Nuggets game and I never expected these performances from these guys. The talent had been there for Watson, but it seems like Jokić and Adelman have really inspired confidence in him and everyone else. I’m so happy to see this.
10:41 what is going on here 💀
Peyton Watson is freed from the shackles of Serbia
I think you’ve found a good format for these videos. Focus on one game and the quick recap the rest. Works well.