Denver is no longer requiring Nikola Jokić to shoulder a massive burden. Could it lead to a title?
Brown and KCP provide that exact perimeter help in spades. Brown is adept at guarding top scorers, regardless of their size. With the Nets, he typically took the toughest defensive assignment, guarding the likes of Jayson Tatum and Khris Middleton. What he lacks in height at times he makes up for in physicality, getting under bigger players and making their lives uncomfortable.
“That was the word that was always on our board that season,” KCP says of the year he won a ring. “We have to build that chemistry and play for each other. No one is better than the next person. We know that Jokić is the MVP, we all have to fill in those gaps and play our roles to a T.” Brown is shooting 40.3% on a career-high 3.4 attempts a night. And Caldwell-Pope basically turns into fire whenever he touches a basketball, converting a ludicrous 49.5% of his 4.6 threes a game. Thanks in part to the returns of Murray and Michael Porter Jr. as well, Denver is second in the NBA in catch-and-shoot three-point percentage behind only the Celtics. The Nuggets are also second in three-point percentage overall after finishing a middling 16th last season.
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