Denver Nuggets: Mike Malone Ranked a Top 15 Coach by B/R

The Denver Nuggets have found themselves a gem in Coach Mike Malone, and he was recently ranked as a top 15 head coach by Bleacher Report.

This is a short segment of what Dan Favale wrote about Malone in this piece (see the full article here):

"In all actuality, Malone was a realist. Those Kings weren’t built to run, so they didn’t. Malone’s Denver Nuggets are assembled to play a more contemporary style, so they did last season. They ranked middle of the road in pace, but a majority of their most used lineups featured one stretchy big."

The Denver Nuggets have been led by Mike Malone, and he will take his youthful team into the season with much inexperience. Favale ended his part of the article with this about the Denver Nuggets:

"The Nuggets are an unfinished product, and Malone must prove he can coach up an above-average squad on both sides of the ball at the same time. But Denver’s future is brighter than almost any other rebuilding team’s, in no small part because of him."

Mike Malone is the perfect fit in Denver, and he should soon be reaping his harvest as he has help draft and develop a talented core of players. During all of March, Malone kept the Denver Nuggets averaging 106.8 points per game. He has the players, and this is his core. So, soon enough, he will have his shot in the playoffs.

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Tell us what you think. Do you believe that Mike Malone is the 12th best coach in the NBA? He has the potential to form a power-house squad with the new style NBA. Do you agree?

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