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My questions are:

1. What are you opinions about Kenneth Faried? And what does your current new staff and front office think? Is he potentially available either in a deal, or maybe in just a straight salary dump?

I would assume he is way way too good just to trade him to dump money, but honestly you guys don't always do what think you should do.

2. Is Erick Green available, and is he any good? I liked him coming out of college more than most, but I haven't seen him play since.

3. What exactly is your teams long term plan on how to get better? Your team and roster confuses me a little.

1. Kenneth Faried sounds like a Malone guy. It was the only player Malone was able to speak positive about in lengths in his introductory press and unlike some Nuggets fans I think it would be an unwise move to trade him just for the sake of trading him, especially since his 'bad contract' suddenly looks okay following the new CBA. I know Shaw had issues with Faried but the assistant coaches and George Karl and Melvin Hunt appeared to have no problems with him. I wouldn't call him untouchable but at this stage I think we need to keep him since our 4 depth is pretty weak once you remove him.

2. Available but he's just your typical end of the bench player right now.

3. I think most of us are unsure right now. I think the FO's plan was to rebuild and clean the roster but they didn't get the trade offers they would like. Heck the players we're reportedly going after are those we're trying to re-sign. I'd say we're definitely on the rebuild but the FO are also waiting to see what these guys are capable of under Malone and if anything are letting guys like Lawson, Chandler build their trade value and then dealing them at the deadline. The other problem is that we don't really have our own first round draft pick (we have the rights to swap with New York) so it's a tricky situation where it'd be better for us to stay in a 'wait and see' approach to see how good/bad Denver or New York are.

I will give this thread a few hours, and than will move it into the trade thread to warn you.

thunderbird1245 wrote:My questions are:

1. What are you opinions about Kenneth Faried? And what does your current new staff and front office think? Is he potentially available either in a deal, or maybe in just a straight salary dump?

I would assume he is way way too good just to trade him to dump money, but honestly you guys don't always do what think you should do.

The GM has reportedly been trying to trade Faried since the day he was hired, but has not found a deal he likes. There are rumors that the Nuggets really liked the way Faried and Nurkic fit so well in the front court once Nurkic was starting, and Malone has talked very well of Faried, so if he is traded it will probably be for a nice package, and not a dump by any means.

thunderbird1245 wrote:2. Is Erick Green available, and is he any good? I liked him coming out of college more than most, but I haven't seen him play since.

Green is a typical combo scoring guard coming out of college, not big enough or strong enough to play SG, and not a good enough passer to be a PG, right now he seems to be 3rd on the depth chart for PG and 4th for SG, so I would assume he is available.

thunderbird1245 wrote:3. What exactly is your teams long term plan on how to get better? Your team and roster confuses me a little.

The plan is to get younger better talent while still competing, people do not realize that Denver is one of the younger teams in the league with an average roster age of about 24 years old. They are flexible, and willing to trade anybody for the right deal, but they seem to be wanting to build around Gallo and Nurkic.

While it is flying under the radar they have gotten much younger the last 2 years, and this year are adding Mudiay who was once projected as the top prospect in this draft, and Jokic, who many writers that know the international games have stated would have been a lottery pick this year, some going as far as saying easily top 10.

Overall the Nuggets are open to deals, but despite the national writers and fans of other teams believing the Nuggets should or will blow things up, the Nuggets ownership does not believe in blowing things up and tanking. Last year the Nuggets were 2 games out of the playoffs on January 15th, despite Mozgov, Robinson, and Afflalo, all looking like they had already quit. There is reason to believe that with a better coach, and the young guys added, the Nuggets could be a good team next year.