Come on breh, Malone was outcoached. He was out coached by pop and he was out coached by Scott. Evan turner was a non factor majority of this series, hood was a problem but overall the blazers wing play was abysmal all series, this was the first game that Murray was guarded by a wing majority of the game and he missed a bunch of wide open shots.
I watched Harris and Murray make their own shots plenty of times this season are they the best no but Murray can create for himself off the dribble and has done that plenty of times. Harris was injured a lot this season and he showed up today Murray was inconsistent and absent in both series for too many games but they both improved this season.
Jokic is an iso guy that can get buckets. He has great feet in the post spot and honestly needed to be down their more often but Malone doesn’t run set plays, he lets Jokic just create and that may work in the regular season but it won’t work in the post season. You can use your center to initiate your offense their are plenty of championship teams that used their center that way. One of the major issues is that Jokic gets to passive and doesn’t reel in Murray or Barton when they just jack shyt up.
I’m not going to talk about Malone’s rotations or his terrible use of timeouts because that has been covered to death.
Do the nuggets have to get bigger? Yes and mpj, Vanderbilt, and welsh will help with that regard. However, Malone is not a championship caliber coach he just isn’t and i’m fine with him being here next year but I don’t want to waste this young core on him for five or six years.
