Bench Concerns

[NuggetsWY]

Only 4 games but ... two things surprised me.

All five starters are averaging over 35 mpg.
Coach is playing only 9 players (his norm) but only 3 off the bench are over 10mpg (not his norm).

I remember reading somewhere that last year, only San Antonio's bench was ranked worse than our bench.
That seems about right in my opinion and based on postings on this board, I think many held the same belief.

So I took a few minutes to look around and saw that statmuse ranked our four bench players as in the 11 worst bench players (after 4 games).

#4 Westbrook
#5 Strawther
#9 Saric
#11 Watson

My opinion:
Evidently Coach does not believe we have a good bench at all (not a surprise).
Any start gets injured and the Nuggets are in deep trouble.

[BelgradeNugget]

By NETRTG our bench now is 30th

https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/advanced?StarterBench=Bench&dir=A&sort=NET_RATING

Russ and Strawther had 2 bad and 2 good games. Watson and Dario 4 bad, but I think things will be OK for them. Problem is deep bench in the case of injury we are in bad position

[skywalker33]

Same story, different year. Gotta give PSWatt a pass as he really didn’t get a TC due to his hamstring injuries. Saric is pathetic right now’s, I’m in for replacing him with Nnaji.

[skywalker33]

Same story, different year. Gotta give PSWatt a pass as he really didn’t get a TC due to his hamstring injuries. Saric is pathetic right now’s, I’m in for replacing him with Nnaji.

[skywalker33]

Quick update on DaRon Holmes, video looks to make it evident he'll be back early next season

https://denversports.com/headlines/daron-holmes-back-on-court/2117597

[TunaFish]

And now Strawther is out 4 weeks minimum. I'll post a link if anyone has not heard about this.