Trevon Brazile

catastrophicYeah, that's no fun.

Uh, Trevon Brazile makes it a little more fun.

He was pretty good.

Yeah, yeah.

They need something

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I'll say that the Trevon Brazile experience was a lot more interesting to me than the Cam Whitmore experience-

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That's not the way to build camaraderie as a team to me.

Like, if you're only trusting five or six guys at all, like, can't you find ways to play your eighth, ninth, and 10th man in different lineups that feature other starters out there to kinda guide along the process? Like, what, Trevon Brazile for example, he could play next to Nikola Jokic, uh, but not if you're only playing Aaron Gordon next to Nikola Jokic.

That's the thing.

So I just, I, I don't get it.

Um, Alpha Diallo was great defensively, struggled offensively.

Trevon Brazile came in, had a really nice kind of soaring layup in transition, had a really impressive rebound and then kinda skied for a rebound.

I, I made mention to this, that I was a little bit worried about the rebounding.

Got five rebounds in nine minutes and 15 seconds in the, in garbage time of this one, so credit to him where credit is due.

I, every game I watch, I came away with at least five of like, "Oh my God, I can't believe he did that." Um, and then another dozen of, "Oh my God, I can't believe he did that."

He's the Trevon Brazile of point guards?

[laughs] No, he's better than that.

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DeMar DeRozan plays the four, Alfa Diallo, Julian Strother, both out there with the second unit.

They changed things up a little bit with that, and Trevin Brazile waited a little bit to come in, but I thought was also very impactful when he did.

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Well, part of it's the jazz were smaller, right? Because they don't have marketing and they don't have NERC.

You got the nod over Darron in the first game of the, uh, Darron over the first game of the preseason, but then you've got the two new guys, Marvin Bagley, who's been giving Nikola Jokic the practice problems, and then he could play the four or five.

But you also got Trevon Brazile, long, athletic big, getting real minutes in the second unit, and he looked good.

Now, that's four bodies backing up one big spot, and Darron is behind at least, uh, two of them right now, and that's a tough place to be in when you're fighting for minutes with Zeke Nnaji.

So here's the res-- uh, the reality of it.

And I, I think that's a big, a big reason why Denver brought in these other guys.

That's the reason they brought in Marvin Bagley.

That's the reason they brought in Trevon Brazile, because maybe they think Darron Holmes isn't a guy who's gonna be able to contribute and compete for this Denver Nuggets team.

Now, again, that's just the harsh reality of some of these situations.

Tyus Jones starting in place of Jamal Murray, who was obviously missing.

Marvin Bagley and Trevon Brazile together as backup bigs.

Zeke Nnaji getting minutes over Duron early.

And a second-half unit that I really liked.

And it matters for what we say in a few minutes, because the first unit can't lean on, uh, you know, their-- they weren't all there the, the way the, the patchwork group could eventually be.

They can't rely on that.

The second unit, and, and here's where I got excited a little bit, the second l- uh, unit featured Marvin Bagley and Trevon Brazile, and I love this.

I love having two lengthy bigs as the backups.