In the third session of the Western games, at 7 minutes 24 seconds in the third quarter, jokiki received the fourth foul. The Nugget challenge failed. Mike Malone could only replace jokiki with Bruce Brown.
After yokedge came off, the Nuggets’s 5-point advantage was quickly eroded. The Lakers caught 71 square meters and watched the trend. Brown made up a basket. After pop snatched, Brown added another counterattack to the basket, and the Nuggets came to the surface to change their breath.
In the last 2 minutes of the third quarter, jokiki was not present. The Nuggets established that the game with pop as the main attack point made the Lakers silly. Murray and pop block and split to assist pop in three points, and then pop wrapped around to cover the receive the ball center shot. The two most difficult stages of nuggets were carried over by Brown and pop.
In the fourth section, when a wave of Nuggets pulled apart, Brown’s figure also ran through it. He used the three points of making up baskets and fixed points to shine with Murray and jokedge.
Popper scored 17 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals, Brown scored 15 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. The two giants who joined the Nuggets during the offseason last year will become the winners. How did the Nuggets get these two high-quality puzzles? This is the credit of Calvin Booth, the general manager of nuggets. After Connelly, who laid the foundation for the Nuggets, ran to the Timberwolves to get a high salary and play double towers, Booth was ordered to help the Nuggets break the window paper floor.
In the summer of 2022, when the news came that Timberwolves had broken a contract that Conelli could not refuse and invited him to Minnesota, all members of the Nuggets management were “lost. In Booth’s words, they got used to Connelly’s leadership, and Connelly’s departure made them unexpected and at a loss.
Fortunately, Connelly has helped the Nuggets dig the foundation several years ago, and the new management of the Nuggets needs to find ways to raise the upper limit. After Booth became the new helm of nuggets, he quickly found a good direction. The main goal was to introduce role players with sufficient size, defensive ability, comprehensive skill, strong projection ability and no need to have a ball in hand.
“Yokedge is a two-term MVP, and I want to be his” housekeeper “during his peak period ‘.” Booth said. However, it is not an easy job to do a good job of “butler” of yokedge.
Booth first operated the 2022 draft. He chose Christian Braun with the 22th sign, and then sent the jiemai Kerr Green and the first round of 2027 to Thunder in exchange for the 30th sign to choose Peyton Watson. Braun is 1.98 meters tall and Watterson is 2.01 meters tall. He is young and has enough size. He is the type that Nuggets need and can be cultivated for a long time.
The highlight is in the trading market and the free agent market.
In the Connelly era, there were Gary Harris, Will Barton and Monte Morris behind the Nuggets. The size of Barton 1 M 96 is relatively good, but the attack is strong and weak. Harris is regarded as the relatively best defender outside the Nuggets, but the height of 1 meter 93 is not enough. Not to mention Morris and Hyland, the defense of two defenders of 1.88 meters is really unreliable.
Booth’s operation focused on the back court. He completed the pop dealing cases, which was not completed by Connelly in February 2022, and sent Barton and Morris to the Wizards for the 3D defender pop of 1.96 meters, then he signed Brown with a contract of $13 million for 2 years and $93 for 1 meter. These two men are medium in size, but their defensive ability and hardness have been proved. These two men can catch up with the opponent’s core attackers outside the line, helping inside defense is the weakness of yokedge to carry a large part of the damage.
“With both of them, Aron Gordon doesn’t have to go to a large number of rival defenders,” Booth explained. “in the past, our backcourt was short, and our goal was to make the outside line bigger, introduce players who can shoot and defend without occupying a lot of ball rights.”
Pop and Brown played an important role in the series with the Lakers. In the 2020 Western finals, the Lakers could bully the backcourt and front line of the Nuggets casually, but now, the bullied became the Lakers. Except Austin Reeves, DeAngelo Russell, Dennis Schroeder and Lonnie Walker all lost their magic. Especially Russell, who was highly expected, was defended by pop to 1 in 9 shots, of which 6 in 3 scores were 0. Brown played a role in counterposition James, Schroeder and Walker. These three people made a total of 13 votes and 3 votes against Brown.
Why was the opponent taking 1.11 points in each round during the first two rounds of jokiqi’s defense, but it dropped to less than 1 point in the West, in the second game, the Super effect of losing only 0.54 points per round was maintained? Because pop and Brown have completed more than half of the anti-blocking task on the outside line, their anti-blocking and timely recovery helped yokki relieve the pressure.
In the selection of the best general manager of the year not long ago, Booth was ranked third side by side. In the first year of steering, he got so much recognition, and Booth was also counted as the Dragon and Phoenix.
“Two generations of Nuggets executives, Booth left a deeper impression on me than Connery. His performance was more effective. He seemed to be more able to solve the team’s needs, the Nuggets are so lucky to have him.” Former Nuggets boss George Carl said.
Booth is 47 years old and played NBA in that year. In 1999, Booth was selected by the Wizards in the 35th place. As a blue collar center with a height of 2.11 meters, Booth once played for the Wizards, Lone Ranger, supersonic, stag, 76 people, forest wolves and Kings, the average career score was only 3.3 points and 2.8 rebounds.
“I am also an ordinary NBA player, which is probably the best praise for me.” Booth said self-deprecating.
In the 10-year career, Booth’s highest light moment was the first round of the playoffs in 2001. At that time, it was still a five-game three-win system, and The Lone Ranger eliminated Jazz 3-2 to advance. 9 seconds before the end of Game 5, Booth received Michael Finley’s assist to finish the lore layup. In that season, Booth joined The Lone Ranger in the mid-term trading and played only 15 games, averaging 7.5 points and 4.8 rebounds. But during the off-season, SuperSonics offered him a six-year contract of 34 million dollars.
Booth was very grateful: “I was able to get this contract not because I was so good, but because Nash planned all the tactics so that I was noticed.”
After his retirement, Booth became a scout. He opened a basketball training camp in his hometown Ohio to train new people. Then he successively served as Scout and player development coach in Timberwolves and pelicans. In 2017, Booth joined nuggets as assistant general manager and was promoted to general manager in 2020. In the past two years, the Nuggets trader has always been Connelly. Booth learned a lot around him and was ready to be pushed to the front desk later.
Booth’s ability to identify talents has long been recognized. He is good at discovering some highlights of non-high-ranking players, such as Batum. In 2008, Batum was selected in the 25th place. Before that, Booth insisted that Batum could become an excellent player. His views were different from those of many scouts. Now look at the 2008 Players, Batum’s winning contribution ranked 7th in the same session.
“It’s too obvious that he has a unique eye in identifying talents.” Connelly praised booth.
Today, Nuggets have led the Lakers 3-0 with a big score, only one step away from entering the NBA finals for the first time. Booth once said that it is the primary goal to grasp the peak of jokiki and build a team around jokiki that can maximize his performance. The Nuggets in Booth’s vision have been formed, and the chance to enter the finals and even win the championship is in front of them. Can they hold it?