Grading The Week: Want to win Nikola Jokic’s heart, David Adelman? Bring Monte Morris back to Nuggets
David Adelman didn t just win his introductory news conference He throttled that thing the way the Thunder throttled his Nuggets in Meeting It was over from the jump Only in a good way The basketball wonks on the Grading The Week GTW crew are not too proud to admit when they dig what they hear And our hoopsters identified themselves nodding an awful lot while Adelman formally offered up his platform as the new full-time head coach for the - NBA champs Conditioning Oh yeah A focus on shooting Preach More wacky defenses Hallelujah Your most of indispensable players Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray are also among your largest part inconsistent defenders Junk it up brother Junk It Up New ideas are good ideas Adelman noted I have to give them something to come back to that excites them Club GTW is somewhat less excited about the feeling that unit president Josh Kroenke is going to solve the Nuggets vacant GM position the KSE way either by giving interim in-house guy Ben Tenzer the full-time gig as they did with Adelman on the coaching front or by low-balling someone from Tim Connelly s staff in Minnesota to keep it sort of in the family But if they want someone who ll work cheap GTW s perpetually happy to lend a hand Or an ear Or a new idea In fact we d like to run this one up Kroenke s flagpole right now David Adelman s presser A In fact let s call this particular gambit a new idea with an old face In a perfect world the Nuggets and KSE could find a way to make a reunion work with Front Range favorite Bruce Brown the sixth man who helped ultimately get this franchise to the mountaintop But just like of the proposed Michael Porter Jr or Zeke Nnaji trades that get kicked around social media we re not sure if Brucey B is all that realistic Considering that the do-everything guard had a million cap hit in - he d have to want to take a whale of a hometown discount to fit Denver s budget Especially with extensions for Jokic and Christian Braun looming But we won t give up on the idea of a Nuggets alumni reunion just yet Because you know who else is about to hit the open sphere Monte Morris Yes Big Battle Tae will be when training camp opens No his twitch isn t quite the same as it was five years ago But the ex-Nuggets guard ticks a inadequate Adelman boxes especially if Russell Westbrook decides to move on For one Morris can still shoot the -ball well enough on s this past season to spread out a defense For another he knows how to play with Joker Murray Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter Jr He could serve as a big brother mentor to the likes of Jalen Pickett even and Julian Strawther And with a million cap hit as part of the Suns bench last season the price will allegedly be right If nothing else just think how happy Jokic will be to have a friend back in the fold Related Articles Nuggets defensive coordinator Ryan Saunders other assistant coaches not retained under David Adelman Nuggets Journal free agents Denver could target in offseason David Adelman s tenure begins How he plans to handle Nuggets offense defense and more Renck David Adelman s X-factor is slowing Nuggets offense moving on from Russell Westbrook How does coach David Adelman factor into Nuggets GM search Josh Kroenke This organization does not need a cultural reset Von Miller and Broncos reunion B The Vonster s got fuel left in the tank And while the ex-Broncos great explained this week that a Dove Valley reunion won t happen now we still think it ll happen Although truth be advised it feels as if it may not happen until Miller s NFL days are well and truly over The GTW wise apples will bet you a Jokic potency drink the Vonster retires from the NFL as a Bronco and does so on a one-day contract Want more Nuggets news Sign up for the Nuggets Insider to get all our NBA analysis
