Darklight wrote:I know you guys will hate me for what I have to say in this post.
After I watched that scrimmage I'm lower on Bol then ever before. He had some nice showings, his offense was a bit rusty where he travelled a couple of times but that's less important.
He had 6 blocks (one should have honestly been a goaltending but whatever)
What truly made me disappointed is he is even worse of a defender then I imagined.. Sure, he can block some shots and 6 blocks is no joke, but with that size and lenght it comes with the territory.
He has zero defensive principles/awarness it's honestly pretty staggering how bad this kid is. People love to rant about MPJ's bad defense but bol makes him look like a all defensive player.. He loses his man constently, no clue where to be or what rotations to make and standing in no mans land all the time. We played zone but that was an exception, can you imagine when people start targeting him on switches? Bigs that are this bad defensively don't become good defenders. Just remember this was against a G-league caliber team, just wait for the better teams and see what's gonna happend. I don't think he has much of a future in this league but I could be wrong, feel free to call me out if he proves me wrong. I just don't see where he fits in our rotation and I can't see him play next season outside garbage time, Malone barely plays MPJ who is waay better player just imagine bol lmao.
We should re-sign Grant and re-sign Millsap for cheap, he seems to want to be here. I just don't see minutes for him or think he is anywhere near NBA ready.
I can't undestand why there is so much hype for him after people watched that game. After watching that I see why all the teams passed on him in the first round and half of them twice. If we weren't high on him he would have been drafted in the 50's or maybe even went undrafted.
I don't wanna make this a MPJ vs Bol debate where we discuss a bad defender vs a horrendous one but I feel it should be brought up. Why are people creaming themselves over bol but hate on MPJ's defense? Reading all these twitter comments it's honestly baffling where you have people like that mcfag guy who hates on MPJ any chance he gets but says nothing about Bol's
Bol has no excuses unlike MPJ, he has had a whole year since he was drafted and also was pretty healthy and played in the G-league. MPJ on the other hand came in this season after two years off, where his experience is all HS since he got injured in college and never was known for it and was rehabbing in his first season unlike bol. I'm just calling out the double standards, but probably also looking too deeply into this since people are most likely just caught up in the hype train and ignoring everything else aside from the highlights
No, Darklight, this post had no bearing , we all hated you before this post
In all honesty, you're entitled to your opinion even if it is harsh. The kid is 20yrs old and just played his 1st game against true NBA players and this is what you bring ??? While there probably is some truth in your post, you certainly can't expect KD out there (oh, wait, someone did !!) but if you can't see some potential to his game either you are really short-sighted or just coming over here to add to your continuing gloom-n-doom mantra. First, tell me one Nuggets that didn't look rusty ? And while I'm not sure whether he's a C or stretch PF, I'm betting he hasn't played a lot of SF in his basketball career. Then they started him with guys he been practicing with for how long, maybe a 10 day, perhaps a couple of weeks ??? Has no one ever shown you some grace because you SURE don't know what it is !!!
Tell me, how does a guy with ZERO defensive awareness get 6 blocks, you probably just attribute that to his 7-9 inch wingspan, some truth to that...but you still have to be within 7-7 inches from the ball (so much for social distancing). Then you claim he had a whole year in the G-league, showing more ignorance than what you're worth. He played under 20mpg for EIGHT games in the G-league, the rest of the time he was rehabbing his foot and strengthening his core. And then you are comparing him to MPJ ??? A lottery pick compared to a mid second rounder....that's just WEAK !!!!
You come over to this forum every 4 months or so, claiming to be a Nuggets fans yet looking at your posts most are just you bashing one thing or another about this team......
Do a little research and prove me wrong on my rebuttal here, please !!!
As I write this I think you are close to being right about one thing, it's not you, especially w/o really knowing you. But I can honestly say I hate your posts, some venom in most all you write over here. Hope that isn't TOO PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE, just meant to be straight forward...even if it is my opinion.
) You are welcome to join us. You are better off being a nuggets fan since we are very good and becoming even better, while the bulls don't have good enough young core and will be looking to go into another rebuild and trade away some of their young players before they have to pay them.
skywalker33 wrote: So you’re more of a player watcher than a fan of the game, very typical of Euro fans. Now a days, the players are marketed more than the teams itselfI became a fan of the nuggets becuase of Jokic and it's like that for most fans, they have a player they love and start rooting for that team he is on, that's usually how it goes
This is a controversial take and I don't mind debating it with u guys, but for me unless you are a fan of those big market team that can get rid of bust and some picks for stars and sign some in free agents it's not worth being a longtime fan of the small market team since it's soo hard to build a team and you have sooo many things going against you. So if you are not a fan of teams like celtics, lakers maybe knicks if they had good ownership and some other markets, you are gonna have a hard time and probably end like a treadmill team but it's extremly hard to be more than that with everything going against the small market teams.
