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If you replaced Jamal Murray with Trae Young would the Nuggets be better or worse? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by BigDaddyJuno@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Basically the title. Replace Murray with Trae. Contracts stay the same. Are the Nuggets better or worse now? I’m talking about Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks by the way

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[–] tacomonday12@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's not a cutter, but he can score from anywhere and is a great catch-and-shooter.

So, eliminates the biggest strength of the Nuggets offense?

Run PNR? Trae can do it better.

No, not with a center that should handle the ball and take more shots than him in the PNR. You're just assuming that Trae will change his most defining traits as a basketball player and become an enthusiastic mid-play passer and off-ball cutter.

Run the offense while Jokic sits? Trae can do it better.

Not really sure why the Nuggets would sacrifice their entire unselfish offensive ethos , interior finishing, hustle, defense, and rebounding for 36 minutes (Jokic time) in exchange for better bench offense.

Close out games? Murray has done it in higher stakes, but Trae isn't scared of the moment either.

Everything after the "but" is hope/assumption vs proven track record.

[–] CallMePapi930@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You’re assuming a lot about Trae who has been the man since day 1, but Trae wants to win and not necessarily as the man. If the Hawks don’t improve significantly this year, which I think they will, Trae will ask for a trade and he would gladly go to a team with a top 10 guy. Trae hasn’t had many options in Atlanta especially with Nate McMillan coaching. You’ll be surprised by what you see form trae this season under Snyder

[–] RatLord445@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

1-Cutting was never something that jamal murray is good at and certainly not something he’s better than trae

2-Do you see the jokic/Murray PnR?, Murray handles the ball 90% of the time and in an inverted PNR we have 0 evidence that trae would be worse than murray in that simply because HE NEVER PLAYED WITH SOMEONE LIKE JOKIC

3-BY FAR THE WORST ASPECT ABOUT THE NUGGETS IS HOW GODAWFUL THE NON-JOKIC MINUTES ARE, Whenever its just murray on rhe court without jokic the nuggets’ offense is a stagnant fucking mess where just chucks some bs contested shots and dribbles the ball for 90% of the shotclock, Having trae young on the court while resting jokic????? The team would go 16-0 this year, not to mention that trae on that nuggets team without jokic is ideal for him as well

I feel like im going crazy seeing people praise jamal murray like this lol