The Nuggets have gone and transformed their roster this offseason, bringing in four players plus a rookie who all figure to play immediately. But the surplus of talent alone doesn’t mean it will be maximized. What remains to be seen is how exactly David Adelman and his staff handle the lineups and rotations.
A point of agony for years with Michael Malone was his insistence on sticking to his rotations, which generally meant playing Nikola Jokic for the entire first quarter and third quarter, then playing lineups featuring all of the bench players at once.
There was very little mixing and matching and very little creativity.