Dear President Connelly
Posted: Wed Apr 4, 2018 1:28 am
Building a roster with only two legitimate point guards is ridiculous. There were already question marks and then add in the injury potential, it left us with a wing man playing too much PG and he just doesn't do well there. Trading one of those PGs for another PG that can't seem to fit on this team seems like a move that was made just so you could say, "We made a move at the trade-deadline". Yes, you did, but it was of no significant impact.
Building a roster with a SF that prefers PF and a SF that is better suited to SG was ridiculous.
Building a team with only two centers is ridiculous. As they say, "you can't teach height" and when one is injured, there is no backup that can reasonably play center for more than brief periods of small-ball.
But the most inexplicable roster aspect is to have three legitimate PFs plus a center and SF that play PF and trade a draft pick for another PF. Regardless of the reasoning, that doesn't make sense unless there is a follow-up move (and there wasn't). But to then draft another PF seems even crazier. Now, to add to those five-plus PFs, you signed a PF. Why? Yes he is great and I love him. Yes he seems like a good fit. But having six true PFs (plus two) on a team is mind-boggling. Did you sign Millsap merely to prove you could sign a free agent?
It is hard to remember any team in the last 50 years that has had a more out-of-balance roster.
Can you please find some way to balance the roster? Three players at each position is nice, especially if your coach will play those players. They do not all have to be starting quality or sixth-man-of-the-year candidates and they don't all have to be strictly one position, but there needs to be balance in case of injury.
Speaking of the coach; he clearly does not like using 1/3 of the roster. Of course we do not expect 15 players to play in every game, but when injuries occur, he tends to play people out of their positions instead of using his bench. He clearly does not like using young players and our three best young players have had to force their way into the lineup while other young players languish on the bench. Clearly your coach is inflexible, trying to force players into playing his style when it doesn't fit them. He has said publicly that things work better when he calls fewer plays, but he keeps reverting to his control tendencies.
Why have the Nuggets found virtually no opportunity for Morris to even visit the Nuggets? If learning from the bench is what your coach teaches, as he does with young players, does that imply Morris has zero chance of being on the Nuggets?
Finally, last year we heard about a "new training facility" but we don't hear about that any more. Yes, a great training facility helps attract free agents. We should have one.
Last year we heard about a G-League team and we don't hear about that any more. A G-League team seems a no-brainer since you could control playing time and playing style - thus accelerating young players in their development towards becoming Denver Nuggets. The hand-writing is on the wall and G-League teams are going to become more important as the NBA works out the one-and-down rule and other aspects of not-yet-ready players.
Building a roster with a SF that prefers PF and a SF that is better suited to SG was ridiculous.
Building a team with only two centers is ridiculous. As they say, "you can't teach height" and when one is injured, there is no backup that can reasonably play center for more than brief periods of small-ball.
But the most inexplicable roster aspect is to have three legitimate PFs plus a center and SF that play PF and trade a draft pick for another PF. Regardless of the reasoning, that doesn't make sense unless there is a follow-up move (and there wasn't). But to then draft another PF seems even crazier. Now, to add to those five-plus PFs, you signed a PF. Why? Yes he is great and I love him. Yes he seems like a good fit. But having six true PFs (plus two) on a team is mind-boggling. Did you sign Millsap merely to prove you could sign a free agent?
It is hard to remember any team in the last 50 years that has had a more out-of-balance roster.
Can you please find some way to balance the roster? Three players at each position is nice, especially if your coach will play those players. They do not all have to be starting quality or sixth-man-of-the-year candidates and they don't all have to be strictly one position, but there needs to be balance in case of injury.
Speaking of the coach; he clearly does not like using 1/3 of the roster. Of course we do not expect 15 players to play in every game, but when injuries occur, he tends to play people out of their positions instead of using his bench. He clearly does not like using young players and our three best young players have had to force their way into the lineup while other young players languish on the bench. Clearly your coach is inflexible, trying to force players into playing his style when it doesn't fit them. He has said publicly that things work better when he calls fewer plays, but he keeps reverting to his control tendencies.
Why have the Nuggets found virtually no opportunity for Morris to even visit the Nuggets? If learning from the bench is what your coach teaches, as he does with young players, does that imply Morris has zero chance of being on the Nuggets?
Finally, last year we heard about a "new training facility" but we don't hear about that any more. Yes, a great training facility helps attract free agents. We should have one.
Last year we heard about a G-League team and we don't hear about that any more. A G-League team seems a no-brainer since you could control playing time and playing style - thus accelerating young players in their development towards becoming Denver Nuggets. The hand-writing is on the wall and G-League teams are going to become more important as the NBA works out the one-and-down rule and other aspects of not-yet-ready players.
