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This aint exactly hot off the presses but I just stumbled across this Michael Malone frustrated with Emmanuel Mudiay
DENVER — The Nuggets are currently operating a bottom-10 offense scoring just 97.7 points per 100 possessions, and a large reason for their inefficient shot-making is the league-leading 18.1 turnovers per game Denver averages.
At the head of that issue is second-year point guard Emmanuel Mudiay, who’s averaging the most turnovers of starting point guards in the league per 100 possessions, while also using a team-high 28.4 percent of Denver’s offensive possessions when he’s on the floor – two factors that at this point are not and will not lead to an efficient offense if current trends continue.
It’s an issue that coach Michael Malone is growing frustrated with, as apparent by comments he’s made after each of Denver’s last two games, losses at home to Detroit and on the road in Portland.
“Same old story, we outscore them 74-70 quarters two, three and four, but you spot them a 15-point lead in the first quarter and we flew the ball all over the gym,” Malone said after the Nuggets turned the ball over seven times in the first quarter against Detroit Saturday leading to 13 Pistons points. “Our turnovers are an epidemic and can’t have our starting point guard averaging five turnovers per game, it’s killing us right now.”
Then, after the Nuggets dropped another game to Portland Sunday, Malone spoke on Mudiay’s inefficiencies again.
“I think he has to make plays for others,” Malone said after the 20-year-old’s 3-16 night shooting, zero assist night. “He got 16 shots up and zero assists. When you’re our starting point guard we need you to run the offense, get guys involved I’m sure they keyed in on him a little bit, but when your shots not falling you have to find other ways to impact the game.”
Mudiay’s turnover troubles, which were a widely known flaw of the point guard’s dating back to last season, have not fixed themselves year two. He’s averaging more turnovers per game this year than last (4.6 to 3.2) despite only playing less than a minute more per game this season than during his rookie year.
During Denver’s recent homestand, Mudiay frequently cited the Nuggets’ “bad spacing,” and that Denver was “kind of crowded,” on offense which was a real issue when playing Nikola Jokic and Jusuf Nurkic together. Yet, Denver went away from that frontcourt against Detroit Saturday and Mudiay still had handed out five turnovers that had nothing to do with the Nuggets’ spacing.
Most of Mudiay’s turnovers are self-inflicted. He’s getting into the lane and leaving his feet, jetting into the lane with no pre-mediated idea of what he wants to do and trying to force the issue. Many of Mudiay’s turnovers come down to him “trying to do too much” and “not making the simple play,” two direct quotes from Malone on how the Nuggets can cure their high turnover numbers.
As a 19-year-old rookie, Mudiay averaged the third-most field goal attempts per game in his draft class behind just Jahlil Okafor and Karl-Anthony Towns. He took all those attempts despite shooting the second-worst percentage of 2015 draftees from the field at 36.4 percent behind just Rashad Vaughn.
Mudiay’s looking for his shot too often. If he continues to shoot below 40 percent from the field he can’t be attempting the most shots night in and night out across Denver’s roster. Currently, he’s two attempting two more field goals per game than Wilson Chandler and roughly three more per game than Danilo Gallinari.
These are just a few highlights from the article but ya'll should really check the article out to get full context of just how bad this guy has been playing. It's mind-boggling that people thought this guy was better than D'angelo
@CantStop @Newzz @Rekkapryde @Sccit @Nima0614 @Regular_P My bad I know I forgot some folks but LWO come in here and smoke on this Mudiay pack
Anybody got a light? 
