It doesn’t matter why head coach Brian Shaw is adopting a deep spinning for his Denver Nuggets–it might be because the roster lacks a clear top eight, or it might be a signal the Nugs will use line changes to double-down on fatigue-inducing pace at elevation like a lot of Denver squads before.
What’s the fact that it is a wise idea.
“There’s likely to be 10 men at the start of the year, will probably be two at each place, which will be in the primary rotation,” Shaw said, per Nate Timmons of all DenverStiffs.com. “Barring foul trouble or blowouts, one way or another, that will determine if it gets deeper than that.”
The postseason remains a lofty goal with this particular club, mainly because there are 10 teams that look scarier (and have better name odds) in the West. All that thickness behind celebrities Ty Lawson and Kenneth Faried could be enough to propel the Nuggets into a .500 album, but it could be a stunner when they ended the 2014-15 effort in the summit’s top eight.
Many hands make light work, however, and Denver will employ more hands than just about anybody this year. We’ll see when sharing the load pays off in surprising fashion.
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