Unsurprisingly, however, and despite the fact that both have reportedly been made available in trade talks per Matt Moore of The Action Network and other sources, Booth has refrained from going into more specifics about Denver’s willingness to trade players such as Barton and Morris.īoth players are longtime Nuggets stalwarts who not only helped to build the team to the place it is today, but also have played critical roles in shaping its culture.
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“We just need to get guys who know how to play, and are plus defenders… I think Jamal, Nikola and Mike do well with those kinds of guys,” he said. In broad strokes, the most essential question might be whether Booth will be willing to be aggressive on the trade front to a degree his predecessor Connelly at times seemed reluctant to be.Īt the workout, Booth clarified the “archetype” of players the Nuggets would be looking to acquire. Tonight’s draft, and the decisions Booth and his staff make, will certainly bring answers to some of the many as-yet-unresolved questions regarding just how, exactly, Denver intends to optimize the team around Jokic.Īrmed with picks 21 and 30 in the first round, the aforementioned TPE, and a host of potential trade candidate players – the two most likely on the block reportedly being guards Will Barton III and Monte Morris – there is a wide range of approaches Booth could take, and moves he could make. “You want to optimize those you want to take advantage of those.” “I’m the steward, along with Josh and Mr.
“You talk about Nikola, MVP of the league,’ Booth said at a pre-draft workout earlier this month. It’s a responsibility that Booth fully understands he’ll be taking on in his new role. And as an organization, Denver also owes it to itself and the Nuggets fan base to do everything possible to maximally optimize the roster around Jokic while he’s in his prime, and put the team in the best possible position to win a championship.
The Nuggets owe it to Jokic, who although he might never acknowledge it, is by far the individual most responsible for not only turning the franchise around at a time it was struggling, but also keeping it afloat amidst their more recent tribulations. The time for excuses, even defensible ones, is over. So, we were always confident we could come back.But the next time around, those rationalizations will no longer suffice. We hadn’t done it in the national championship game obviously, but at K-State, we were down more than that. "Me and Jalen like to turn it up a little bit. I would say that those guys keep us kind of steady. When you’ve got guys like (Agbaji), guys like Jalen Wilson, (David McCormack), that really come to play, come to fight every half, we never really worry too much. But it’s been great.”īraun, explaining how his battled to enjoy that success during the postseason, added: “We have a really resilient team. Everybody seems to be in a better mood, since we won.
“It’s been a joy just to be around Lawrence, around the community. “It’s been great,” Braun told Andy Katz in May, about his potential as a NBA player, in a video posted to Katz’ Twitter account for NBA TV. The junior started 39 games for the national champions, just like Agbaji did. He received all-conference recognition for his play during the season as well, just as he did the past two seasons. He shot 49.5% from the field and 38.6% from behind the arc, for a team that won the Big 12 Conference tournament and captured a share of the conference’s regular season title.īraun’s play during the postseason saw him end up as a member of the all-region team for the Midwest region of the NCAA tournament, and a member of the Big 12’s all-tournament team. Buoyed by an unmistakable confidence, Braun averaged 14.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Braun earned his spot at the combine because of what he was able to do for Kansas, and potentially because of how he fit the mold of a 3-and-D player at the next level.
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