I like seeing Jamal Murray shoot the basketball. I want to see him shoot the basketball more often. That’s all there is to it. I’m often critical of so-called “chuckers”, and I’ve even been critical of Murray himself for taking too many bad shots. But I don’t care anymore. Whatever shots he has to take to get to 30 points, those are the shots I want him to take.
These shots will have to come at the expense of other players, but aside from Nikola Jokic and maybe Wilson Chandler, all of those other players deserve to have their shots taken away. The Nuggets need to stop this foolish 8th seed push. Fine, they can continue it, but only if it comes on the backs of Jokic and Murray. And Johnny O’Bryant. But I don’t want to see their non-core pieces dragging them to a first-round ass whooping.