Alpha Diallo
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Oct 16, 2026
Grant HughesHOST
[laughs] In r- I, I think as I'm thinking about it now, this line probably needs to be a different number, but I'll let you go ahead with it.
Dan FavaleHOST
I was gonna, I was gonna ask you to make the case for what, like, what's the pet, like, why is that line so [laughs] ambitiously out there? I'll take, I'll take the under just because even if their core line-up is fine, when you look at what's happening on the bench, I, are you playing Spencer Jones and Alpha Diallo a ton? And are they both-
Grant HughesHOST
Yeah
Dan FavaleHOST
... going to be excellent defensively for you? DeMar DeRozan, I think because he can slow the game down by he scores baskets, gets to the foul line, so that allows your defense to get set, maybe there won't be this huge implosion.
Adam MaresHOST
Yeah, I think you're pro- And it's a Friday night, like, that might be a [laughs] We'll see what happens.
Adam MaresHOST
Uh, you had some notes on Alpha Diallo.
Adam MaresHOST
I just felt like he barely played tonight, had zero points.
Harrison WindHOST
I'm selling a little Diallo stock, and I, I was-
Adam MaresHOST
I think that his fit is the real issue here, which is that, again, all these guys are playing with different lineups, you know, the bench guys.
Adam MaresHOST
And I think tonight you saw, one, no point guard lineup.
Adam MaresHOST
Can Dia- Alpha Diallo be part of a no point guard lineup? Probably not.
Adam MaresHOST
And then two, to your point, if you're out there with a group that might struggle offensively and then has a lot, uh, needs a lot of help defensively, he might not be able to make as big of an impact.
SwipaHOST
He works with Aaron Gordon.
SwipaHOST
He works with Alpha Diallo.
SwipaHOST
He works with Cam Johnson.
SwipaHOST
And I think he can work with Bagley as well.
6 MINS LATER
SwipaHOST
Like, you have three people you legitimately can put here with confidence and all do different things to say, hey, we're going to mitigate some of these minutes with AG.
SwipaHOST
I just don't think that Aaron Gordon –
Ryan BlackburnHOST
Or you can slide Cam Johnson to the four, Christian Brown to the three, and have Alpha Diallo at the two and play a very defensive-minded perimeter lineup anyway that you're probably going to need.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
You're probably going to need that kind of thing at some points where you've got a whole bunch of guys that you need to defend on the perimeter, like against the Minnesota Timberwolves, for example.
Matt MooreHOST
He plays pick and roll with Marvin Bagley.
Matt MooreHOST
right Julian Strother is both an iso threat a deep threat and can run some pick and roll with Bagley okay that works you've got Alfa Diallo for defense and is purely just spotting up or cutting that's the only two things that Diallo needs to do offensively when I've said that he's better offensively than people have kind of build him as I do not mean on ball I do not want Alfa Diallo dribbling in to pull up jumpers.
Matt MooreHOST
That's not a thing.
Matt MooreHOST
He airballed one, or didn't airball it.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
The bench unit, though, not as ready to go.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
And The lineup that Denver used ultimately with the, with the second unit and then kind of bridged some things a little bit with Alpha Diallo after as an 11th man.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
Uh, but it was initially Tyus Jones, Julian Strawther, Cam Whitmore, Trevin Brazil, and Marvin Bagley.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
And so without DeMar DeRozan, without Spencer Jones, that's your three and your four in those lineups most of the time.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
So Denver gets their, their third-string four out there in Trevin Brazil, and they are able to play Cam Whitmore in this case, and they decided to play him instead of Alpha Diallo, who they've seen enough of by, uh, from what I, I can see.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
I thought Diallo was okay in the Chicago game.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
Um, and so they, they decided to go with Cam Whitmore in this one for a little bit more of an extended look at, at what he can do next to Denver's other guys.
11 MINS LATER
Ryan BlackburnHOST
Like Aaron Gordon, you, you see the, the second quarter stretch that he had when Jokic and Murray also came back into the game.
Chris GallagherHOST
Obviously, there's fear going into this season.
Chris GallagherHOST
What's going to happen with Nikola Jokic? Is he okay if the Nuggets underperform again? Are the Nuggets going to make sweeping changes? But one of the most underrated moves of the offseason was made by the Denver Nuggets when they signed Alpha Diallo, who is now showing to be the perfect piece for this team.
Chris GallagherHOST
And we'll get a better photo of him later going on in this video right now, guys.
Chris GallagherHOST
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Chris GallagherHOST
It improves the defense on the margins, and that's great.
Chris GallagherHOST
But we didn't realize how good he is, but David Adelman's comments do just show exactly that.
Chris GallagherHOST
Adelman said Alpha Diallo was awesome in the second half of recent game.
Chris GallagherHOST
He guarded the hell out of people.
Zach CohenHOST
But no, it's hard to just lose Peyton Watson and just hope that things go better.
Zach CohenHOST
I've made this joke on Twitter before, but unless you think you have Peyton Watson at home with Cam Whitmore, and like alpha diallo and you think that those two guys can make up what you've lost i don't know it's it's not good in terms of what went out and what came in i do like derosen though as a fit for them because you've mentioned the time you're going to miss a lot of these players like he is the perfect kind of guy to all right like jamal murray's out derosen go get 25 for us
Kelley BydlonGUEST
he's my if i had to make a bet in sixth man i don't have any bets in sixth man if i had to he would be the bet for me
Jonathan Von TobelHOST
Yeah, actually, I don't think that's crazy at all.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
Now he is going to play every night or pretty close to every night.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
But more than that, like, okay, Nuggets get DeMar DeRozan, they bring, they have Spencer Jones, Julian Strawther's back, Alfa Diallo's somebody that people are excited about, Trevin Brazil is somebody that people are excited about, Marvin Bagley.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
And so th- there's a lot of questions as to exactly how the Nuggets are gonna construct that bench, how they're going to do things, especially when there's so much positivity about, okay, you brought the starting lineup back.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
That's, uh, like even if there are some questions about the actual fitting in the playoffs, regular season-wise, they're gonna be better than just about everybody.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
You guys, like, this is, this is what it's going to be"? Like, what's ultimately going to happen with Denver's rotation is Nikola Jokic is gonna play basically 9, 10, 11, maybe even 12 minutes in that first quarter, and then they're gonna play a full bench, and it's probably going to be, if I had to guess, Tyus Jones, Julian Strawther, DeMar DeRozan, Spencer Jones if he's healthy, and Marvin Bagley.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
And so those are your five at least initially.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
Alfa Diallo's probably not gonna get out there immediately I would guess.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
Trevin Brazil is somebody that they could work in.
Matt GeistHOST
Um, obviously it's been a little disappointing so far, but he would be so crucial to this team's success.
Matt GeistHOST
Maybe it's Alpha Diallo, maybe it's Schroth or somebody like that.
Matt GeistHOST
They really do need one of those guys that's barely making anything outside of DeRozan to step up for this team.
Matt GeistHOST
Uh, next up we are gonna have the Detroit Pistons, Duncan Robinson.
AlexiHOST
Who'd they, well, they lost Ryan Navajar.
AlexiHOST
They signed, it's like Alpha Diallo, who was like a EuroLeague DPOI.
AlexiHOST
Oh, DeMar.
AlexiHOST
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