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Week 1 Gold Digger

Nuggets started the season poorly. While the coach had been working tirelessly over the weeks leading up to the season, trying to find the right playbook to run and the right line up to have on the court, the late team additions and the ability to play anyone at point, and a roster update, got GM Rootsey overly excited.

Free Agency saw the Nuggets bring in a few point guards to shore up the bench behind John Wall, after Wade Baldwin IV was demoted to a two way player just prior to free agency. Mario Chalmers and Jameer Nelson were both added and GM Rootsey could not have been happier with the two signings. Mario is a tough vet to have on the bench to agitate opposing scorers and to out hustle most starting guards. Jameer on the other hand is more finesse, with range on his shot and vision on his passing, Jameer was given minutes immediately. Rootsey had envisioned Jameer playing off ball to Dwyane Wade in the second unit to knock down the long ball while Wade drives the lane, similar to a Wall and Gordon combo in the starting line up. Aron Baynes was also added in Free Agency, the centre position was lacking any depth at all behind Enes Kanter, and Baynes looks to come in and hold the fort while Kanter has a breather. Baynes was favoured in the free agency class by GM Rootsey for a number of reasons, one being Baynes had played his youth basketball in Mareeba and Cairns, which is a short drive from where Rootsey spends his off season-living. Many may criticise such a poor reason for signing Baynes, but it wasn't the only reason. He also is getting quality minutes on the NBA Celtics which should see him get a slight ratings boost in the next update.

When the announcement was made to allow anyone to play point guard, the prior weeks testing had gone out the window. GM Rootsey had hoped Wade would be able to suit up at the point, due to his dominant touches rating and his good ball handling, vision, passing, and quickness ratings, all pointing to him playing as a handy guard. So he was trusted with a 6th man role to back up Wall and Gordon, with the hope that talent on the floor would win the game rather than a tried and true game plan.

The final reason for excitement was the ratings update, that saw most of the Nuggets players getting a boost right before the season started. The most exciting players were Otto Porter and Eric Gordon, who had been stepping up in the NBA, but were still missing persons in the NLL.

The first two games of the season get played and the Nuggets barely looked like they showed up, save Enes Kanter, who wants to opt out of his player option and resign a max deal, or so it would seem by the games he is playing. Eric Gordon has not turned up yet, and the whole bench just looked ugly. The Nuggets have gone back to the drawing board this week and think they may have found a solution, Porter to start at the four and Wade to start at the three. Morris will move to the bench to balance out the lower usage guys and the ball movement wont be so predictable as when Wade dominated the ball.

Half a week down, 19 and a half to go. Nuggets look to turn a disappointing start around and trust the talent will win in the end.

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