The Nuggets start the five tigers in the league, and the substitute lineup is still the Paper Tigers?

The Denver Nuggets' starting lineup was slightly unfamiliar in the preseason that they first reunited on Saturday, but the awkward feeling had basically disappeared two days later. Although the mistakes remained high - Jokic appeared 6 times by himself - the team's transmission was smoother and sharp overall.

Peaton Watson and Christian Braun, who replaced Aaron Gordon, started in the round of rest, showed excellent judgment in the attack. Kajoy added more ball-holding attacks than the first preseason game. In an offensive round, he realized that he could not pass the ball to Jokic, so he decisively dribbled the ball to the basket, and then passed the ball to Watson on the outside, and quickly moved to the open position to catch the ball and completed a three-point shot.

Jokic completely turned on the experimental mode: Johnson, who flew along the bottom line without watching the long pass of the man bullet accurately found the bottom corner (unfortunately missed the three-pointer), tried to use the top pass behind the back to find the empty-cut teammate but seriously deviated from the target - this is the value of the preseason. In Vancouver games, the Nuggets showed amazing finishing efficiency, maintaining more than 60% of the field goal percentage for most of the game. Braun made 19 points in 8 shots and made 3 three-pointers, Jokic made 5 shots, Jamal Murray continued his preseason MVP level performance, hitting high-difficulty three-pointers on many occasions.

The real difficulty for the current team is to start the offense rather than end, especially when Murray is not on the court. The Toronto Raptors maintained a full-game press all night, which made the Nuggets' substitute lineup repeatedly fall into a dilemma of obstacles in advance and stagnant offense. All five substitutes made multiple mistakes, with Bruce Brown ranked first with four mistakes. While it may take time for him to re-adapt the Nuggets point guard role, dealing with high-intensity oppression is still a collective problem for the substitute lineup - can Jaylen Pickett become a stable solution? Where is Julian Strauser? Even Watson's ball-holding time increased significantly in the first two games.

With Watson entering the starting lineup, coach David Adelman lined up a four-back substitute around Jonas Valanciunas instead of using a more matching number four, such as Darron Holmes II, Zeke Nagi or Spencer Jones. The main rotation lineup consisting of Pickett, Strauser, Tim Hardaway, Brown and Valanciunas may suggest the current team's rotation order.

Homes, who returned after a torn Achilles tendon, obviously still needs to be run-in and cannot plug and play, but he hit two key three-pointers in the final quarter to help the team resist the opponent's counterattack. It is worth noting that Hardaway has become Adelman's primary substitution choice in two preseason games - he appeared at the same time as Watson in the first game, and was played alone in the second game. However, his stability needs to be further improved.

(Text/Kong Yang)