After a semi-promising rookie season, Trey Lyles really sucked last year. Sucked so bad that I don’t blame the Nuggets for not playing him at all to start this year.
Now he’s good.
Weird how that happens with young players sometimes. They start off okay, then they suck, then they’re okay again. Or, they suck and suck and suck and then get okay after a few years. That should be what’s happening with Emmanuel Mudiay. Hopefully.
Lyles has needed to step up in the absence of Millsap and Jokic, and he has. I don’t know how many people who expected him to actually do it, probably just him and maybe his mom, but he has, and it’s great. He can shoot threes, he pumpfake threes and then go to the hole, those are basically the only two things you need to be able to do to be successful.
Oh, and he didn’t miss a shot tonight. Perfect 7 for 7. Who even needs Millsap?