2024-25 Season Outlooks: Denver Nuggets with Adam Mares + San Antonio Spurs with Noah Magaro-George

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

The man who knows the Nuggets better than anyone else, Adam Mares of DNVR, is our guest to break down Denver’s hopes for bouncing back in 2024-25. What went wrong in the Minnesota series? Was it personnel, or the failure of that personnel to play to their potential? How Jamal Murray has looked in camp after a rough 6 months The pressure on Michael Malone and Calvin Booth this season Who needs to step up in the absence of KCP? The starting shooting guard competition Russell Westbrook’s impact on the second unit…or the closing unit? What combinations Michael Malone can rely on off the bench How hard will Nikola Jokic need to push this season? Which of the other projected top-4 Denver matches up well against Our predictions for the regular season Noah Magaro-George of the Vic-and-Roll is our guest to look ahead to a Spurs season in which they’re projected to take a big step forward. Will the Spurs exhibit the same mindset of emphasizing development over wins? What is Devin Vassell’s health situation and how does he project this year? We’ve all seen the highlights, but how good was Victor on defense last year and where can he improve? Is Gregg Popovich still a good coach? What’s realistic to expect Victor to improve on offensively? How do newcomer vets Chris Paul and Harrison Barnes fit into the rotation? What about Jeremy Sochan? Whether Stephon Castle will play a big role in year 1. The Spurs’ strengths and weaknesses and our predictions for the season.

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0:00.0	Let us now speak of the Denver Nuggets with one Adam Morris of D'NVR, the flagship local
0:09.1	outlet of all city sports. How you doing man? I'm doing good man. I like it. Yes, that's right. The
0:14.1	flagship. Don't let them forget it. So yeah, we got a lot to talk about here
0:21.3	with the nuggets and you know there's a plenty of stuff that happened in the
0:25.4	off season the loss of KCP the loss at home blowing the 20 point lead to the wolves, the continued brilliance of
0:35.0	Nicola Yolkich, Jamal Murray's struggles in the playoffs and then over the
0:39.1	summer I think where I want to start though in figuring out a baseline for this thing.
0:44.2	Obviously we're talking about the regular season, but the bigger thing for these guys is the
0:48.1	playoffs.
0:49.1	When you look back on that Minnesota series now in hindsight.
0:53.0	Why did they lose?
0:54.8	Was it just a fluke?
0:56.5	Was there something missing from the team in terms of like personnel?
1:00.9	Was it just a bad shooting? Which it was, it was like incredibly bad shooting for them.
1:05.6	What do you look back on as seeing the issue was in that series?
1:09.6	You know, my perspective hasn't changed on it from the immediate aftermath, and a lot of that was just because, you know, I kind of saw it coming.
1:16.0	It wasn't really a surprise in the moment, but what I think it came down to and feel confident about it,
1:21.0	the nuggets were tired, had a lack of focus, a lack of belief in that
1:26.4	series and it stemmed, in my opinion, from the extended absence of Jamal Murray in the
1:31.7	Ath post-All-Star break portion of the year.
1:34.0	And even goes before that, you know, Murray gets hurt early in the year.
1:37.0	The team kind of has to carry, pick up the slack.
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