I'm Not Kekgeek's grades G13 Nuggets@Wolves

[Q-is-here]

Randle - A-
Ant - D+
Rudy - C-
Jaden - C+
DDV - D
Naz - B+
Conley - B-
Clark - B+
Dillingham - B+

[FNG]

Randle - A-
Ant - D+
Rudy - C-
Jaden - C+
DDV - D
Naz - B+
Conley - B-
Clark - B+
Dillingham - B+

No disagreement from me, Q...good bench, bad starters (other than Ju).

Did Clark play at all in the second half? The box score froze during the 3rd quarter and still has him at 8 minutes. If that is true, I give Finchy an F (unless Jaylen is hurt).

[Q-is-here]

Randle - A-
Ant - D+
Rudy - C-
Jaden - C+
DDV - D
Naz - B+
Conley - B-
Clark - B+
Dillingham - B+

No disagreement from me, Q...good bench, bad starters (other than Ju).

Did Clark play at all in the second half? The box score froze during the 3rd quarter and still has him at 8 minutes. If that is true, I give Finchy an F (unless Jaylen is hurt).

Yes, he did play. Denver put Jokic on him and he essentially ignored Clark and just sat in the paint.

[Coolbreeze44]

Randle having an A next to his name is surprising. He needs to start playing some defense as tonight, like many nights, he isn't giving it to us on that end. I didn't particularly like the rest of his game tonight either.

[Wolvesfan21]

I think it's safe to say,

Right now OKC is on DYNASTY tier.

Denver is on ELITE tier.

Wolves are on GREAT tier (3rd tier team).

We need to jump not one tier, but two to reach OKC if we are going to do anything chip wise, seems like a super long shot and I do think they are clearly one step and two steps better RIGHT NOW. Key RIGHT NOW. We'll see how it plays out.

[AussieWolf3]

I think it's safe to say,

Right now OKC is on DYNASTY tier.

Denver is on ELITE tier.

Wolves are on GREAT tier (3rd tier team).

We need to jump not one tier, but two to reach OKC if we are going to do anything chip wise, seems like a super long shot and I do think they are clearly one step and two steps better RIGHT NOW. Key RIGHT NOW. We'll see how it plays out.

I believe this is correct, the silver lining however is that I think about 70% of the answers to making the jump to the 2nd tier are at least potentially on the roster in Joan, Dilly, Clark and Shannon.

Thus far the starting 5 is playing at a really high level this season, sporting roughly a top 5 net rating among starting units (+13).

The bench is really holding this team back, but perhaps in season development of the back 5 can make a difference by the end of year.

Either way this team will ultimately only go as far as Ant goes. Early on this season shows a lot of promise for him, but I'm still concerned about his consistency on defense and is ability to diagnose and manipulate an opposing defense

[rapsuperstar31]

I think it's safe to say,

Right now OKC is on DYNASTY tier.

Denver is on ELITE tier.

Wolves are on GREAT tier (3rd tier team).

We need to jump not one tier, but two to reach OKC if we are going to do anything chip wise, seems like a super long shot and I do think they are clearly one step and two steps better RIGHT NOW. Key RIGHT NOW. We'll see how it plays out.

If we were ever to have a down year and get some lottery luck which has been happening more since they changed the lottery odds, this would be the best year to do it. Last year Dallas, Philly, and San Antonio all jump way up, with Dallas jumping after just missing the playoffs losing in the play in. Atlanta jumps from the play in loss to the first pick the previous year. Obviously we all want to have another playoff run again, but if we do have some injury issues this year, it wouldn't be the worst thing if we get some luck. We do have a pick swap with Utah so if we did win the lottery we would swap with Utah so we can't get the first pick. But the top 5 or so guys in this draft are considered cant miss, and I see some saying Cooper Flagg wouldn't be a top 5 pick in this draft. You get Cam Boozer at pf in the draft, and you can trade Naz or even Julius for a stud point guard and time line 2.0 begins.

[rapsuperstar31]

Randle having an A next to his name is surprising. He needs to start playing some defense as tonight, like many nights, he isn't giving it to us on that end. I didn't particularly like the rest of his game tonight either.

While he only had two turnovers, they happened on back to back plays on silly turnovers and really hurt at the time.

[Wolvesfan21]

I think it's safe to say,

Right now OKC is on DYNASTY tier.

Denver is on ELITE tier.

Wolves are on GREAT tier (3rd tier team).

We need to jump not one tier, but two to reach OKC if we are going to do anything chip wise, seems like a super long shot and I do think they are clearly one step and two steps better RIGHT NOW. Key RIGHT NOW. We'll see how it plays out.

If we were ever to have a down year and get some lottery luck which has been happening more since they changed the lottery odds, this would be the best year to do it. Last year Dallas, Philly, and San Antonio all jump way up, with Dallas jumping after just missing the playoffs losing in the play in. Atlanta jumps from the play in loss to the first pick the previous year. Obviously we all want to have another playoff run again, but if we do have some injury issues this year, it wouldn't be the worst thing if we get some luck. We do have a pick swap with Utah so if we did win the lottery we would swap with Utah so we can't get the first pick. But the top 5 or so guys in this draft are considered cant miss, and I see some saying Cooper Flagg wouldn't be a top 5 pick in this draft. You get Cam Boozer at pf in the draft, and you can trade Naz or even Julius for a stud point guard and time line 2.0 begins.

Yeah the only way we miss the playoffs is a lot of injury or key injuries. Like if Ant and Rudy went down for 20 games (knock on wood), We'd be pretty rough.

[Wolvesfan21]

I think it's safe to say,

Right now OKC is on DYNASTY tier.

Denver is on ELITE tier.

Wolves are on GREAT tier (3rd tier team).

We need to jump not one tier, but two to reach OKC if we are going to do anything chip wise, seems like a super long shot and I do think they are clearly one step and two steps better RIGHT NOW. Key RIGHT NOW. We'll see how it plays out.

I believe this is correct, the silver lining however is that I think about 70% of the answers to making the jump to the 2nd tier are at least potentially on the roster in Joan, Dilly, Clark and Shannon.

Thus far the starting 5 is playing at a really high level this season, sporting roughly a top 5 net rating among starting units (+13).

The bench is really holding this team back, but perhaps in season development of the back 5 can make a difference by the end of year.

Either way this team will ultimately only go as far as Ant goes. Early on this season shows a lot of promise for him, but I'm still concerned about his consistency on defense and is ability to diagnose and manipulate an opposing defense

While I picked Ant for MVP he's clearly not through the first dozen or so games. Sure injury, but thats part of it.

I agree, IF the Wolves were to make a legit run, Ant would be playing at MVP type level (SGA and Jokic obviously).

On a side note, we miss NAW I think, his consistent defense and solid 3P shooting was huge last season. He was probably our most consistent player. Not best, just was at a steady high level most nights. We haven't really replaced his production yet, though with the young guys like you say, they will also be key.