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

submitted 11 months 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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[–] bluetenthousand@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My comment is no disrespect to Trae although I’m not particularly a fan of his style of game. I think most people if they were looking to start a team would take Trae over Jamal but the question was about swapping Trae for Jamal on the current Denver roster and in that scenario where you already have a bonafide MVP (Jokic) I’d take Jamal. Every day.

[–] CallMePapi930@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It’s the same thing. People are assuming a guy who’s clearly the better player wouldn’t adjust his game to play with the best player in the world. People forget Jamal was completely inconsistent in that role and had the most consistent stretch of how career in that role this year in the playoffs. Trae has never had a shooter like MPJ on his team while simultaneously having the best player in the world to take all the pressure off him.

When Trae plays the goal of the other team is to shut Trae down because if you do that you shut the hawks down. If Trae is just free to roam around because you have to double jokic, MPJ and KCP with out there next to Trae, and having AG as a cutter/lob threat he would look completely different.