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Most teams substitute players rather randomly based on fouls or matchups or whatever.
Some teams substitute for their star player(s) at a specific point, usually around 2 min left in the 1st or 3rd quarter.
OKC, GSW, and others do that. It makes sense.
Some teams even substitute other players at a fairly consistent time, although that's less common.

Has anyone noticed a substitution pattern with the Nuggets (other than when Jokic gets in foul trouble)?
I haven't been able to find a consistent substitution pattern yet.
Not sure it's important, but wouldn't it make sense with Gallinari? He's our #1 scorer and injury prone.
Might make sense with Chandler for the same two reasons.
Might make sense with Harris, especially because we have nice a nice backup there.

Would a regular rotation at PG make a difference? Maybe - maybe not.

Do you think Jokic commits more fouls when he's tired? It seems like he picks up fouls faster late in a period. Then again, there have been a few occasions where he picked up two fouls real fast in the 1st or 3rd period. I'm not sure but would he play better if he played three 6 minute rotations in each half?

Malone is a panic coach. He overadapts to opposition lineups and the reason why I say over-adapt is because he is always moving away from the strength of our roster to marginally match up to opposition. Like I bet if an opposition coach put in a small ball lineup of 5 D-league players, Malone would counter by taking Jokic out and putting in Faried/Arthur, despite there being 5 D-league players.

In most games, he burns and wastes timeouts (costed us against Philly at the end when we had none left) and makes changes too quickly rather than trusting players and giving them a chance to play through mistakes. This might sound unreasonable but a good coach puts in a lineup that would work straight away rather than constantly shuffling 30 seconds or a minute afterwards.

I believe we need to go young as our best players are young (and they give the most effort as well) but I won't rip Malone for going with vets since we have several vets here that are primma donnas.

Malone likes to go with his gut, and the veterans that bitch enough get more minutes, while the young guys who bitch lose their minutes.

The biggest thing I do not like is that some players are allowed to make all the mistakes they can find a way to make in their minutes, while others get benched for 1 or 2 minor mistakes. Mudiay has way to long of a leash, most of the veterans can seemingly do no wrong, yet guys like Jokic and Nurkic get benched when they miss one rotation, or the rush one shot. Sorry but that is bull ****.

From what I can see
Mudiay is almost guaranteed at least 28 MPG, Nelson is almost guaranteed 20+ mpg, and Harris will get at least 20+ mpg, Barton and Chandler each get at least 27 mpg. Faried is basically guaranteed 25 mpg, and Gallo is getting 30+ mpg. Other than that it depends on what Malone's gut tells him I guess.

As for what combos are on the court together, that always depends heavily on how Malone feels that night. Which hurts on court chemistry as it is obvious that some guys just do not seem to feel comfortable with some other guys one the court. Like Murray and Barton, when Murray is in and Barton is not, Murray moves very well without the ball and finds open spots to hit his shots, with Barton on the court Murray is stuck in the corner as barton as Murray seems to be trying to stay out of his way. There are other combos that do not seem to work either, but that is probably the most obvious one to me.