The Denver Nuggets started their 2024-25 season with a 102-87 loss towards the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder on Thursday night time.
The workforce shot a tough 35.7% from the sphere and 18.4% from the three-point (7-for-38).
Reigning MVP Nikola Jokic, who completed with a 16-point, 13-assist, 12-rebound triple-double, had a blunt evaluation of the workforce’s efficiency.
“We do not shoot the ball very effectively. We’re not an excellent capturing workforce, I feel, besides (Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray). All of us are form of streaky, not streaky, however simply common shooters,” Jokic stated. “Now we have one thing else, we are able to in all probability be higher and have benefits in another issues on the ground.”
Nuggets head coach Michael Malone agreed together with his famous person large man, saying after the defeat that “going into the season, capturing was a priority of mine.” Malone particularly pointed to the offseason lack of capturing guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who signed with the Orlando Magic in July, as a tough blow.
Denver shot 49.6% from the ground final season (fourth within the NBA) and 37.4% on three-pointers (tenth).
Murray led the workforce together with his 42.5% success price on photographs from deep, whereas KCP was second (40.6%).
Murray (2-for-5) and Porter Jr. (3-for-10) mixed to go 5-for-15 from past the arc on Thursday night time, whereas the remainder of the workforce went 2-for-23.
