Pre-Season Predictions Challenge (ie, Crazy Guesses)

Post #1 » by **NuggetsWY** » Sat Oct 5, 2019 3:00 pm

What will the Nuggets' record be in the preseason?

Oct 8 at Portland
Oct 10 at Clippers
Oct 14 at Phoenix
Oct 17 vs Portland in Denver

Which Nugget will play the most minutes?
Who will be the Nuggets' leading scorer?
How many technical fouls will the Nuggets be called for? (Include Coach Malone)

Other crazy & wild predictions welcome

P.S. The winner will receive two free beverages at a Cheyenne Sports bar upon their next visit during a Nuggets game.

Post #2 » by **NuggetsWY** » Sat Oct 5, 2019 3:03 pm

What will the Nuggets' record be in the preseason? 2-2

Oct 8 at Portland loss
Oct 10 at Clippers win
Oct 14 at Phoenix win
Oct 17 vs Portland in Denver loss

Which Nugget will play the most minutes? Beasley
Who will be the Nuggets' leading scorer? Morris
How many technical fouls will the Nuggets be called for? (Include Coach Malone) 3

Post #3 » by **THE J0KER** » Sat Oct 5, 2019 3:33 pm

It is hard to give predictions if Jokic will play unofficially only two games but we don't know which two games, and there are about 50% chances Kawhi will play in that LA game. So, it is more Russian roulette than a prediction game.

But I find the question about scoring and playing time very interesting. No doubt Malone will experiment with rotations but in both cases, I give advantage to starter Murray, or even Jokic (if he is qualified to compete with just two games).

TunaFish · Post #4 » by **TunaFish** » Tue Oct 8, 2019 1:10 pm

A lot of backups will be playing a lot of minutes. Denver knows the starters except at small forward and that's where we will see the competition. I don't think they will try to win many games, that's what happens when you know you are pretty good. If they win 2 games then the backups played well.

They win 2 games but who can say which.
Morris is going to play the most.
Leading scorer will be Beasley.
Malone will get no techs because he is just watching.

skywalker33 · Post #5 » by **skywalker33** » Wed Oct 9, 2019 11:55 pm

NuggetsWY wrote:Oct 8 at Portland loss

Hope ya didn't bet the mortgage on that one...they controlled for most of the game which is a very good sign to me !!

skywalker33 · Post #6 » by **skywalker33** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:51 pm

I’m betting they go 2+ wins for the preseason :lol:

Post #7 » by **NuggetsWY** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:28 pm

skywalker33 wrote:I’m betting they go 2+ wins for the preseason

Would have meant something if you'd had the guts to say it before the first game.

skywalker33 · Post #8 » by **skywalker33** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:37 pm

NuggetsWY wrote:
skywalker33 wrote:I’m betting they go 2+ wins for the preseason

Would have meant something if you'd had the guts to say it before the first game.

Well, at least I'm not fence-jumping, I stand by my convictions ! And if you want guts, I'll make the same prediction for the entire regular season AND the playoffs :lol:

Post #9 » by **NuggetsWY** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:25 pm

skywalker33 wrote:
NuggetsWY wrote:
skywalker33 wrote:I’m betting they go 2+ wins for the preseason

Would have meant something if you'd had the guts to say it before the first game.

Well, at least I'm not fence-jumping, I stand by my convictions ! And if you want guts, I'll make the same prediction for the entire regular season AND the playoffs

We'll have a thread for that in the next few days --- and it will include a few other things you can project too! :cowboy:

skywalker33 · Post #10 » by **skywalker33** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:31 pm

NuggetsWY wrote:
skywalker33 wrote:
NuggetsWY wrote: Would have meant something if you'd had the guts to say it before the first game.

Well, at least I'm not fence-jumping, I stand by my convictions ! And if you want guts, I'll make the same prediction for the entire regular season AND the playoffs

We'll have a thread for that in the next few days --- and it will include a few other things you can project too!

TOO MUCH PRESSURE !!!

Post #11 » by **NuggetsWY** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:45 pm

skywalker33 wrote:
NuggetsWY wrote:
skywalker33 wrote:Well, at least I'm not fence-jumping, I stand by my convictions ! And if you want guts, I'll make the same prediction for the entire regular season AND the playoffs

We'll have a thread for that in the next few days --- and it will include a few other things you can project too!

TOO MUCH PRESSURE !!!

Aw, come on, you know you thrive on pressure. You're the only one from our board brave enough to meet me. Now that's pressure! :lol:

Post #12 » by **NuggetsWY** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 11:30 am

TunaFish wrote:A lot of backups will be playing a lot of minutes. Denver knows the starters except at small forward and that's where we will see the competition. I don't think they will try to win many games, that's what happens when you know you are pretty good. If they win 2 games then the backups played well.

They win 2 games but who can say which.
Morris is going to play the most.
Leading scorer will be Beasley.
Malone will get no techs because he is just watching.

Well TunaFish, no one else participated but here's the results:

4 wins ! ? ! Not that it matters much but, cool

Most minutes? I guessed Beasley & you had Morris. Murray played all four games and lead with 22.5 mpg.

Most points? I guessed Morris & you had Beasley. Who would have guess Millsap (in just 3 games). He had most ppg & most total points.

Technical fouls - none for the Nuggets and only one for an opponent.

Boring - somebody should have livened things up. :nod:

TunaFish · Post #13 » by **TunaFish** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:11 am

Starters played a lot more than I had anticipated. I guess Malone wanted to make sure he had the rotations set for the start of the season.

I think he should have given MPJ more minutes.

psimanic1 · Post #14 » by **psimanic1** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:18 am

So, how much will Malik be out after this fight with this Broncos guy? What can we expect? Suspension from NBA side? Another one from team side? Did he break anything in that fight, ****...

EDIT: Never mind, it's from August but video just got out, so he is probably good to go, how will that affect his game trough the season, who knows...They got into a fight over the girl Malik has baby with.. :banghead: