Pay close attention to the Nuggets’ bench during games. It isn’t a coincidence that a player might change seats while one the sideline and waiting to return to the court. It is done by design.
“We have to pick where every player is going to sit throughout the game. We pick those seats before the game” Nuggets assistant coach Ryan Bowen told Nuggets.com in a July interview. “We have to be strategic for that…So like at the end of the game, we want to make sure that we have people in the front row rather than in the third row [to provide energy].”Similar to a wedding, seating arrangements are carefully considered by head coach Michael Malone and his coaching staff in an effort to give the…
