It’s clear watching the first 10 games of the 2020-21 Denver Nuggets season that Jamal Murray is somewhere between the player he was during the 2019-20 regular season (a solid starting point guard with All-Star potential) and the 2020 bubble (an out-of-body experience comparable to Stephen Curry’s best season).
Part of evaluating Denver’s championship odds this season boiled down to a decision between which version of Murray the Nuggets would get for 2020-21. One of those players was a flamethrower every few nights, while the other was a flamethrower every single night.
As it turns out, the Nuggets have had more of regular season Murray than bubble Murray thus far, but it’s unclear how much of that is because Murray CAN’T do those things.