Oct 3, 2026 · 50 min · 23 segments
On the latest episode of Pickaxe and Roll, Ryan Blackburn goes over what's happened at the last couple days of Denver Nuggets Training Camp and what David Adelman is saying about the team's…
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And then I'm going to go ahead and guess that they're having a light day today after playing a lot yesterday.
This is more about, hey, we're trying to actually implement some of this stuff, and it's the transition defense stuff.
It's, hey, we're trying to start some of the offensive plays in this one and really help everybody learn What's going on here? Get everybody on the same page.
We're trying to not as much like walk through stuff like they're still getting up and down the floor, but just not for as long.
Day four was yesterday, and they did a full-on scrimmage, at least for three quarters of that.
Wasn't necessarily going to be like, hey, Nikola, you've got to play 30 out of these 36 minutes, but it was enough of...
The starters playing together, starters mixed in with bench guys, bench and third stringers, and everybody kind of mixing in on these different lineups and seeing how that was going, trying to implement as many of the principles as possible.
That was one of the main messages from Tyus Jones, from Christian Brown, from David Adleman, that offense really was the big focus.
And I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good thing, but we'll get into that in just a little bit.
So you'll probably see some notes and quotes come out from the DNVR guys or from Bennett or Vinny or any of those guys.
And then I'm going to go ahead and guess that they're having a light day today after playing a lot yesterday.
This is more about, hey, we're trying to actually implement some of this stuff, and it's the transition defense stuff.
It's, hey, we're trying to start some of the offensive plays in this one and really help everybody learn What's going on here? Get everybody on the same page.
We're trying to not as much like walk through stuff like they're still getting up and down the floor, but just not for as long.
Day four was yesterday, and they did a full-on scrimmage, at least for three quarters of that.
Wasn't necessarily going to be like, hey, Nikola, you've got to play 30 out of these 36 minutes, but it was enough of...
The starters playing together, starters mixed in with bench guys, bench and third stringers, and everybody kind of mixing in on these different lineups and seeing how that was going, trying to implement as many of the principles as possible.
That was one of the main messages from Tyus Jones, from Christian Brown, from David Adleman, that offense really was the big focus.
And I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good thing, but we'll get into that in just a little bit.
So you'll probably see some notes and quotes come out from the DNVR guys or from Bennett or Vinny or any of those guys.
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