Since he entered the Nuggets' lineup, he sparked an altruistic attitude in the altitude. He plays team-first, team-second. And he plays defense like the first quarter is the fourth quarter. That's right, Dahntay Jones has jolted the Nuggets (oh, and Chauncey Billups has helped, too).
While Billups' homecoming is cause for a hootenanny, there has been an underlying story line to the new-look Nuggets, and that's the new shooting guard Jones. He averages 18.5 minutes per game — eighth on the Nuggets — and Jones has started every game since the Allen Iverson-Billups trade, often setting the tone with his hungry defense. It's safe to say that the Nuggets' master plan wasn't to trade Iverson in order to create a starting job for Jones. But since Jones' insertion into the lineup, it's as if the Denver chemists have cooked up a perfect formula.
"He's a runner and a defender. My first unit has a tendency of committing to running up and down the court hard," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "The pace of the game is important to me. Sometimes in the past, convincing a team to play at the pace I want has been difficult. Guys who play 35 or 40 minutes have a tendency to conserve their energy, and that's not how I want to play.
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"You need one guy in the starting lineup who spikes up their commitment."
GK is an idiot and so is the guy that wrote this article. Jones has been torched in a bunch of our first quarters. Mayo had a career night against us and it started in the 1st quarter, I think he went for 17 in the 1st when we played them. Jones is the worst rebounding guard on the team.
edited for 3 paragraphs or less when posting articles. -corona
