4. PG Emmanuel Mudiay
Listen, we’d all love to put Mudiay at No. 1, at least inside the top three, but we can’t get too ahead of ourselves. I mean, I’m higher on the Nuggets than the majority of people, but even I know that a rookie point guard, no matter how great he may be, is still a rookie point guard.
They’ll be nights where Mudiay goes off and he’ll look like one of the five best guards in the NBA, but they’ll also be plenty of nights where he has seven turnovers and goes 4-20 from the field.
And that’s totally fine.
Really, in a perfect world, Mudiay will use his other-worldly talents — mainly, his court vision and passing — to make the rest of the team look great. If he can do that, while we’ll all see his importance, it’ll be the team that garners a lot of the credit.
