MINNEAPOLIS — The two film samples Michael Malone showed Peyton Watson after Denver’s season-opening clunker last week illuminated a collective identity crisis that far exceeds Watson or any other individual.
Actually, to call it a crisis would be dramatic and premature, according to the players involved. For now, it’s more of a quest for cohesion within the Nuggets’ second unit, a pursuit that requires patience and amounts to questions as fundamental as where to be on the floor and when. This is what Malone wanted to circle with Watson.
The third-year forward was stationed in the corner as Russell Westbrook drove from the slot.