CSG Podcast

Adam Mares from DNVR and ALL NBA joins Jeff on the latest Mortcast. Topic's covered: The state of the 2024 Denver Nuggets, the travails of Jamal Murray, the transcendence of Nikola Jokic, the ineptitude of Joel Embiid and the state of the NBA.

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The Nuggets have struggled these last two games in losses to the Pelicans and Memphis. The issue that keeps coming back up is that the Nuggets need a second floor raiser. On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how the Nuggets need to find that player, be it Jamal, MPJ, someone else or someone via trade the Nuggets need to get more traditional before Jokic burns out.

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The Nuggets lost to the severely shorthanded New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night 101-94. Nikola Jokic and Aaron Gordon didn't play for the Nuggets. The loss exposed some large weaknesses for the Nuggets and exposed Jamal Murray. The question we need to ask is can Jamal elevate without Nikola Jokic?

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Final installment of Jeff's retrospective on the 2014 ESPN article that changed everything for the Nuggets. This week Jeff talks about how the Nuggets adjusted in the 2014-15 season and how, while not 'responsible' for the changes the article put a fine point on the Nuggets issues at the time.

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After a 37 points, 18 rebound, 15 assist game in a victory over the Dallas Mavericks, Nikola Jokic is absolutely on a historic run to start this season. Out of necessity and circumstance this has been absolutely needed. Accepting that, on the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how the Nuggets can sneak Jokic more rest this season.

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The Denver Nuggets are playing faster than they have since the George Karl era. On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how this is a good thing and how Michael Malone just needs to get used to it. Also Jeff talks about Jokic's remarkable start to the season and asks if the team is at risk of running him into the ground

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In part two of his series on the 2014 article in ESPN about the Denver Nuggets Jeff talks about how he received the article and how the Nuggets themselves received it and how it helped change the direction of the team that year.

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A new article from ESPN just dropped, 10 years after the last big article in the website. This one wasn't as bomb thowingly hot but it still conveyed a very obvious point of view across about a difference of opinion between coach and GM. Also, Jeff ends the podcast talking about how Tommy Balcetis needs to be the public voice of the Denver Nuggets front office for the sake of everyone there.

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A new Friday series for November comes to the Mortcast. Today's episode is part one of Jeff's series on the 10 year anniversary of "The Article" in ESPN about the team that fundamentally shook them. This week, Jeff talks about how the Nuggets got to November 2014 and some of the decisions that were made.

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"When the mighty arms of Atlas hold the heavens from the earth" Yes folks ... Led Zeppelin reference for Nikola Jokic. We've reached peak podcasting. On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how great Jokic is and why he's having to carry this Nuggets team.

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