Malone talking end of year meetings and young guys

[skywalker33]

He’s a tough-ass from Queens, NY with the demeanor of a stereotypical unenlightened blue-collar day-laborer, maybe marginally more refined but that’s it. He reminds me of certain of those individuals that I’ve worked or interacted with.

Not sure why you are making this statement for two reasons.

1. Malone is not from Queens. His father was the coach at Power Memorial when he was born. He then went to Fordham and on to Yale, then Syracuse then Rhode Island. Did the family live in Queens for all of that? It seems very unlikely. I'll grant you that his dad spent a lot of time in New York though. But it seems likely that the family moved to upstate New York when Mike Malone was about 7 and then they probably moved to Rhode Island when he was 13.

2. You seem to be rather condescending towards people who do manual labor for a living. That seems to be a rather prejudiced attitude that will not be welcome by many people. I'd suggest toning down your superciliousness before you encounter someone that decides to make a deprecating remark that might derogate your opinions in a manner which might bring a measure of opprobrium to your arguments.

Well, looks like you’ve done more research into his upbringing than I have. I’m obviously not trying to insult anyone, just trying to characterize him and who he is or might be to try and gain insight into why he does what he does. It must be because he’s a tough-ass who prizes “defensive hustle” because otherwise it’s just nonsensical.

I've heard Malone has Queens ties as well, not sure to what extent. Regardless, I wonder what kind of response he get when he's preaching defense to the team ??

[NuggetsWY]

He’s a tough-ass from Queens, NY with the demeanor of a stereotypical unenlightened blue-collar day-laborer, maybe marginally more refined but that’s it. He reminds me of certain of those individuals that I’ve worked or interacted with.

Not sure why you are making this statement for two reasons.

1. Malone is not from Queens. His father was the coach at Power Memorial when he was born. He then went to Fordham and on to Yale, then Syracuse then Rhode Island. Did the family live in Queens for all of that? It seems very unlikely. I'll grant you that his dad spent a lot of time in New York though. But it seems likely that the family moved to upstate New York when Mike Malone was about 7 and then they probably moved to Rhode Island when he was 13.

2. You seem to be rather condescending towards people who do manual labor for a living. That seems to be a rather prejudiced attitude that will not be welcome by many people. I'd suggest toning down your superciliousness before you encounter someone that decides to make a deprecating remark that might derogate your opinions in a manner which might bring a measure of opprobrium to your arguments.

Well, looks like you’ve done more research into his upbringing than I have. I’m obviously not trying to insult anyone, just trying to characterize him and who he is or might be to try and gain insight into why he does what he does. It must be because he’s a tough-ass who prizes “defensive hustle” because otherwise it’s just nonsensical.

If we're taking a vote, I'll vote "nonsensical".

[NuggetsWY]

Not sure why you are making this statement for two reasons.

1. Malone is not from Queens. His father was the coach at Power Memorial when he was born. He then went to Fordham and on to Yale, then Syracuse then Rhode Island. Did the family live in Queens for all of that? It seems very unlikely. I'll grant you that his dad spent a lot of time in New York though. But it seems likely that the family moved to upstate New York when Mike Malone was about 7 and then they probably moved to Rhode Island when he was 13.

2. You seem to be rather condescending towards people who do manual labor for a living. That seems to be a rather prejudiced attitude that will not be welcome by many people. I'd suggest toning down your superciliousness before you encounter someone that decides to make a deprecating remark that might derogate your opinions in a manner which might bring a measure of opprobrium to your arguments.

Well, looks like you’ve done more research into his upbringing than I have. I’m obviously not trying to insult anyone, just trying to characterize him and who he is or might be to try and gain insight into why he does what he does. It must be because he’s a tough-ass who prizes “defensive hustle” because otherwise it’s just nonsensical.

I've heard Malone has Queens ties as well, not sure to what extent. Regardless, I wonder what kind of response he get when he's preaching defense to the team ??

Based on their response; they probably responded with snores. The improvement in defense appears to be one-on-one defense because help-defense is slow and often confused.

[U hova]

I wanted us to lose the Portland game.
It's been overwhelmingly clear that Malone is full of hot air and this was a great game to expose him for it to the front office. He wanted us to go back to our 2017 offense but ran out the Plumkic combo again, not just to start but through and through. It doesn't even make sense match-up wise to force Jokic to guard Aminu, but logic is a resource on this team.

We won because of a career night from Jamal, but none of our problems were solved. And none of them will be solved as long as Malone is at the top. I'm starting to wonder how drastically Malone needs to mess up for the front office to cut him.

[psimanic1]

I wanted us to lose the Portland game.
It's been overwhelmingly clear that Malone is full of hot air and this was a great game to expose him for it to the front office. He wanted us to go back to our 2017 offense but ran out the Plumkic combo again, not just to start but through and through. It doesn't even make sense match-up wise to force Jokic to guard Aminu, but logic is a resource on this team.

We won because of a career night from Jamal, but none of our problems were solved. And none of them will be solved as long as Malone is at the top. I'm starting to wonder how drastically Malone needs to mess up for the front office to cut him.

And I'm starting to wonder if anyone from FO is watching our games, or they just believe what Malone is saying that he will do and go with it? It's like if we ask Kroenke what do you think about Malones rotations and stuff he would say something like "Hey, I think it's great! It's great that whoever is playing hard is getting minutes, and I like that he is trying to use Jokic at C more, because as we saw playing him at PF with another C didn't work with Nurkic..We will give him new contract, maybe even I could do that tomorrow, 2-3 or 5 years what do you think? And yes, how could I forget, we are playing great defense and running with purpose only..We are what, 4th or 5th in West?"

[THE J0KER]

Our biggest problem is not PF-Jokic behind C-Plumlee because once Millsap is back, this nightmare will be over overnight.

Our biggest problem is that we still not solved our SF problem or problem with a useful decent guard to help Harris and Murray in our backcourt rotation.

Denver paying this season to Jokic, Harris, Murray, and Lyles less than $10M for all 4 altogether, but for all other 90+ millions of dollars which we spend on rest of roster we don't have any decent TOP100 player today (ok, we have one, but he is injured since November)!? It's Crazy and big wasted opportunity!