Bennett Durando is the Colorado Avalanche beat writer for The Denver Post. Before taking on his first NHL beat, he covered SEC football and other sports for five years, first at his alma mater, Missouri, for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Columbia Missourian, then Auburn for the Montgomery Advertiser. Proud born-and-raised Midwesterner who admittedly prefers the mountain view.
Phoenix Suns forward Yuta Watanabe drives as Denver Nuggets guard Julian Strawther defends during the first half of an NBA basketball preseason game, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Phoenix. The Nuggets defeated the Suns 115-107 in their 2023-24 preseason opener Tuesday night in Phoenix. Here are three takeaways from the defending champs’ return to NBA action.
Jalen Pickett was the team’s only 2023 draft pick who didn’t play in the first half. He checked in for the first time late in the third quarter and played most of the fourth.New sixth man Christian Braun is the only certainty on that second unit, occupying the two-guard position and making it more difficult for a newcomer like Strawther to earn a role at the NBA level.
By the second half, he had a feel for his shot. If the highest praise a quarterback can receive is that he “can make all the throws,” Strawther was the quarterback of the Nuggets’ bench. He made all the shots: catch-and-shoot 3s, 3s off the dribble, baseline floaters while operating the pick-and-roll, runners in the lane, midrange pull-ups. He scored 15 points in the third quarter on perfect shooting for 20 on the night.
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