No Jokic, Big Problem, Nuggets fall to Pelicans in NBA Cup | Pickaxe and Roll

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1. Am not the only one who has noticed
   Jamal seems he has lost explosiveness
   There is no excuse for Jamal
   He takes the most shots in the team and he is badly inefficient
   I keep comparing 2020 and now and i saw that Jamal has really lost quickness and explosion

   U remember last year when Malone said they need to set better screens for Jamal to loose his defender quicker

   He just can't seperate from his defenders like in the bubble
   Now if he goes one on one u know he is bricking

   Also Jamal is one dimensional
   He is a shooter and doesn't go to th rim
   Jamal is the type of guy who is streaky

2. For as much as Jamal Murray displays fire as “Bubble Murray” and “Championship Murray” can attest there seems to be a dismissiveness or a flat out indifference to putting maximum effort into several games per year!

3. You all need to stop lifting Murray so high. Us fans see through it all!

4. If we're this negative about the team and Jamal especially in November then the team needs to be blown up and get what assets we can because again if it's this dire in November then this team won't win another championship in the Jokic era

5. This game highlights just how bad the Denver team is without Jokic. Murray, who signed a four-year, $208 million contract extension, was given a max deal—if he’s not the right player, why offer him the deal? Do you think any other team would have offered him a similar contract?

6. Murray took no accountability post game these horrible contracts are wasting jokics prime murray has never made an all star team has bad injuries and has regressed and still got a max? Peyton Watson and Braun are more important to this team than jamal Murray

7. come on people, how long to attack Jamal, they kept him like a treasure. there are no threes, you go under the net…. the main problem is that there was no one to play under the hoop. Jamal can't do that. The only one who can keep the game going when Jokic is not there is Gordon. The rest….children and misses

8. Jordan plays baseball in 1995 and Scotty Pippen leads the Bulls to a 55-27 record losing to Patrick Ewing's Knicks in Round two going 7 games. Could Murray accomplish this if Jokic was to sit out the year?

9. Murray is the haughty type where the more criticism he gets the more hes gonna dig in—He aint gonna change–Dude has a arrogant contempt for any kind of strict diet conditioning regime–also -Babbler D-LINE said "murray is more like demar derozan at this stage of his career"-🤣-murray is 27 years old–derozan is 35

10. Murray's favorite song is Stone Temple Pilots – Half the Man I Used to Be.

11. At what point do we call out nba officiating. Im tired of watching nuggets get blown out of the paint only for Denver to get called for breathing on the other team when it goes the other way. It's unwatchable

12. Let's call em the denver jokic from now on because the nuggets sucked

13. Social media is gross. Look at all these lame comments.

14. As a long time Nuggets fan I have to say…watching Murray jog around with no sense of urgency and his jersey hanging out is getting old….sloppy.

15. I agree – Murray is hurt – mentally

16. Nice Ryan, blame it Jokic, lol

17. Sorry but a professional team shouldn't look so completely lost and incompetent without its best player, terrible and embarrassing game. 2nd "best" player gets a max and can't muster up enough to beat a g-league hospital team?

18. The problem is not that we're expecting too much of Jamal. We can accept Jamal for who he is, but then his salary should match that, so there's room in the budget to bring more players to assist. If he's getting paid like a max contract player, then we expect him to play like one. If he can't do it, he shouldn't be paid like one.

19. I expect 20+ points from Jay Huff tomorrow… 🙂

20. Zeke naaji is bad at basketball. Booth should be fired for just having him still on the team

21. Since you know more than us Ryan,tell us why Booth gave him the contract if there is "stuff" wrong with Jamal?

22. The bright side of the nuggets: Every team would love to pay for the Joker. The nuggets can keep Murray, MPJ and Naji for the rest of their career.

23. you're too soft, one team cannot fall to one man, its called a team sport, we're seeing such a drop in quality (beating best teams vs losing to a bench of a worst team)

24. Stop making excuses for the team they should be able to keep the ship from sinking vs the horrible pelicans team

25. Why wouldn’t the assistant coach play Jordan when we’re getting out rebounded that badly? I know Zeke was bad but he only played five minutes, he needs more to figure things out

26. Shame on Denver Nuggets for doling out TWO HUNDRED MILLION to an average player who doesn't even play games, always injured etc…Murray. Shame shame shame shame shame Instead they could have traded him. Jokic has to leave but he's a giant labia majora at heart to do so. I can't follow the Nuggets anymore.

27. Murray is not the player he was 2 years ago. How will the team deal with that? It’s not out of the realm of possibility that he becomes that good again but are you willing to bet the window Jokic gives us on Murray?

28. Imagine earning 52 million per year. Yet you never were an All Star in your life, and scoring 16 points, is a successful game for you.
    He is untradable. Nobody would take him, except if Jokic is included in the trade.

29. If the injuries are affecting him why is he playing in the off-season and not trying to heal up?? I think unftly Murray's peak has passed us..

30. That trash organization is ruining the career of the best offensive player in the history of the sport. They should have given max contract to Reggie Jackson too, why not. Bunch of incompetent clowns. This is what Nuggets are without Jokic. A lottery team. Last year's Detroit Pistons. The difference being Pistons have a good PG. Max contract to a guy that averages 17 points and 6 assist for a career. What a joke. There are minimum 15 better PGs in the NBA. Minimum. Wish Joker would ask for a trade.

31. I hope next contract of joker other team will offer 70m/year and he grab it. Booth wasting jokic talent

32. Ryan trying to flex that he knows more, fine report on it. Are you a reporter or a fan? Everyone has an opinion the only difference between a fan and "reporter" is that one is coming hopefully from an informed point of view.