Picking the right assistants for Michael Malone's new staff will be paramount for the Denver Nuggets. This is another area the Nuggets can't afford to be wrong.
We should have known that the Brian Shaw era of Denver Nuggets basketball was going to fail spectacularly when one of the first serious names for lead assistant coach that was floated was none other than ... former Nuggets General Manager/coach Bernie Bickerstaff. That showed a stunning lack of awareness of Nuggets history and cast some doubt on Shaw's ability to choose assistants wisely.
Shaw ended up with Lester Conner as his lead assistant and what resulted was a disastrous season and three quarters.