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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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