As Nuggets players settle into the David Adelman regime, one of the new details they’re adjusting to is his tendency to execute substitution patterns on a game-to-game basis.
It’s not the same formula every night.
Not even for Nikola Jokic.
Denver’s superstar center mostly played and rested the same rotation of minutes under former coach Michael Malone. Play the entire first quarter. Sit the first few minutes of the second, then sub back in and finish the half. Play the entire third. Sit the start of the fourth — for as long as Malone dared.