The Nuggets Verging On True Heavyweight Status (johnwilmeswords on Jokic and company ahead of the trade deadline)
It’s just one game, sure—and it’s really only one half—and it goes against the whole Nikola Jokic thesis to put too much weight into a primetime TV showdown in January. But something important was on display when his Denver Nuggets lost a road game to a highly galvanized Philadelphia 76ers team, behind Joel Embiid’s 47-point performance.
The Nuggets’ loss in Philadelphia was meaningful, rather, because of how it showed a crack in the overall Denver project. It may not be an opening that any team in their own conference, the West, can exploit as much as the Embiid and P.J. Tucker frontcourt did.
At halftime, Philadelphia realized that Embiid is a bad defensive matchup for Jokic. He’s too big and top-heavy; no one Jokic’s own size or bigger is as coordinated as him, none better at transforming the dangerous physics of being an enormous man into a nimble, balletic affair.
In both cases, Jokic’s team was tragically undermanned, with no Jamal Murray in either series, and Michael Porter Jr. absent from most as well. Last weekend, however, was a much different story, with the Nuggets at full strength, and revamped by a series of strategically defense-first additions during the 2022 offseason; welcome, Bruce Brown and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. All of it has led to the dominance of their conference, and the second-best record in the league.
Second-year guard Bones Hyland is the name that’s out there in terms of who Denver may move. A sometimes-scintillating scorer and passer, he’s undersized and one of the worst defenders in the league.
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