The 2022-23 Denver Nuggets as essential holiday dishes
By Kyle Berry
Bones Hyland: Cranberry Sauce
A wonderful side dish next to Denver’s talented top four is the second-year sensation, Bones Hyland. The 6’2″ point guard out of VCU can give teams a different taste of Mile High Basketball depending on how Michael Malone wants to split up the minutes and if Hyland is feeling slightly sour or sweet.
Before his nagging hip injury forced him to sit, Bones was giving the Nuggets all the tangy goodness they could handle, anchoring Denver in their big win against the Mavericks on the road with 29 points, and picking teams apart to the tune of 17.6 points per game average in the month of November.
Bones has been sensational, but the taste can often sour with his style of play if things aren’t clicking, bad shots are being forced and turnovers start to clog up the offense like cranberry sauce clogging the garbage disposal.
Hyland has shown progress and has become an acquired taste in the Mile High City when he can match his boiling preparation with on-court results. Some like cranberry sauce out of a can, and luckily Hyland plays his home games at Ball Arena, formerly known as “the can.”