Nuggets trade Bol Bol and PJ Dozier plus a future 2nd to Boston in a three way deal with San Antonio, which will send, 3-point shooter, Bryn Forbes to Denver. 

This pod breaks down the PJ Dozier Trade and the series of unusual events that finally lead to Denver moving on from Bol Bol. Get my initial reaction to the trade and my three keys to replacing PJ Dozier.

Will this mid-season trade serve Denver well? Will Denver add Boogie Cousins to their bench with the extra cap space?

They are back with a vengeance and a win at home. It's been a while since we've seen one of those!  This episode covers trends over the last two home games and some New Years resolutions for players who need to get their game on track and start helping the MVP, Nikola Jokic. 

I pick Matt's brain on some of the major ongoing themes this season within the NBA and society as a whole.  One of those themes being the GMs forming an association to support high ranking executives in situations such as the one Portland is going through at this time.  

Matt and I also discuss the Bol Bol phenomenon and where we gage this team is truly at, at this point in the season.  

Bizzy Bones and the entire Nuggets team have put on a show since getting back from Memphis. With Michael Porter out the team has gotten the chance to put together some creative lineups and have found real success playing team defense.  They are now 2nd in defense in the NBA and looking to close their homestand with a win over Portland for the sweep.

This episode was recorded prior to the news of Nikola's one game suspension.

Aniello was the perfect guest for this episode because he has great style and in this episode Jena and Aniello take a look at the newly released, city edition uniforms for the 2021-2022 season. The pair cover all the categories including: sickest, ugliest, best representation of the city, biggest risk gone right and wrong and laziest designs. And of course, their thoughts on the Nuggets jersey and latest games.

Graham works with athletes of all ages and across professional sports on mental skills training, with meditations and visualizations.  Graham lends his expertise to the show to explain how deep the mental game goes in some of the most intense high pressure moments these NBA athletes experience. He speaks to the mental skills tools that players like Aaron Gordon, Ben Simmons, and Zach LaVine practice regularly and how the greatest players lean into their greatest fears. 

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With Jamal out indefinitely, Jena and Reilly discuss the gravity of the loss to this team’s expectations for this season. It was just last week when the Nuggets were on an 8 game winning streak and feeling invincible and today couldn't feel further from that feeling. There were a lot of different angles to discuss with regard to Jamal’s injury, including the constant pressure on players to play in nationally televised games, a dilemma Jena and Reilly could not agree on.

There was plenty of takeaways to talk about now that Aaron Gordon is playing “meaningful basketball” every night and “getting the easiest buckets of his career,” including; the impact on MPJ’s game, the offense blooming, Jokic dominating and Jerami Grant trying to prove a point. It is a fun time to be a Denver Nuggets fan.

It is a positive episode with your weekly dose of bickering, advice and wild takes that can span from Facundo Campazzo not being that good for this team to Bol Bol needing more minutes.

Not that there isn't a ton to celebrate, this team does have an MVP candidate that continues to perform at a high level night in and night out. But with the trade deadline coming to a close Thursday, Jena and Reilly wonder what trade could improve this team and help them reach their championship aspirations. And that is how a wild game of would you rather breaks out in this episode.  Check it out and enjoy!

There is honestly so many topics covered your are really going to have to listen to it to know everything.

The Nuggets also playing better as of late, closing out the first half of the season with a four game winning streak and beginning to look like they have found a better fit for Michael Porter’s talents. Reilly and Jena talk about the key factors they believe the Nuggets need to reach the top tier of teams in the NBA.  They discuss trade options that would best improve this team and take them to that next level, not that either is convinced the Nuggets will make a move at the deadline.  And while Jena believes that championship team is centered around Nikola Jokic you will have to check out the pod to find out who Reilly thinks is the player to build around in the coming future.

They debate the toughest upcoming matchups on Denver’s schedule heading into the trade deadline.  Let’s just hope its a better deadline than getting rid of Malik Beasley and the basketball boy next door, Juancho Hernangomez for a handful of guys none of us can name and who didn’t make the team better.

Jena and Reilly give you a unique set of take aways from Milwaukee and Chicago and of course Reilly had to eat some crow on her Jamal Murray takes.  And each host speaks to this recent resurgence of the team and what has been going well over the last couple of games, while remembering that this team just lost to the Wizards for a second time and to the Kings three times this year. And there was a short detour in the pod where Jena explores the Reilly’s obvious lack of knowledge around former Rockies players.  In fact, this pod is not just for avid Nuggets fans but a good laugh for Rockies fans as well.

In this episode, the girls go back and forth about some of the most challenging aspects of their current relationship with the Denver Nuggets. They also get into the bigger picture for this team and where they land amongst all NBA teams this season.  Does a trade make sense at this point? There is plenty of relationship advice and laughs in this episode, as always! The indecisiveness or lack of commitment to a trade, the complicating dynamics when one partner doesn't perform, the blame game and many other relationship issues are covered in this Valentines episode of The Chick n’ Nuggets Podcast with Jena Garcia, featuring Reilly Biller.

They also delve into some of the most interesting trends happening around the Nuggets cursed third quarter.  As always you will find a lot of laughs and inside jokes on this episode, like all the others.

Obviously this is not the first time the argument has been about which player is better, Jokic or Embiid, and we know it won't be the last.  Jena describes some of the advanced statistics that demonstrate just how similar these two players are and in what areas they differ. In the end both players are having fantastic seasons thus far.

In the month of January...

• Joel Embiid averaged: 28.9 PPG/ 10.8 RPG/ 55.2 FG%/ 41.2 3P%
• Jokic averaged: 26.8 points, 11.8 rebounds and 8.6 assists/ 56.5 FG%/ 38.1 3P%

While Jokic is having a MVP season, the rest of the team is still working to build chemistry.  With both Gary Harris and Pj Dozier out with injuries someone will have to step up to fill in some of what is lost on defense. Jena explains just how concerning Gary’s abductor injury is to his performance this season.  A look into his past injuries paints a predictable path for the rest of Gary’s season.

Jena and Reilly also dive deep into the present day with some of the greatest Nuggets of all time.  They look into the present life of ten Nuggets greats and tell fans what some of their players are up to after basketball ends.  From Dikembe Mutombo to Andre Miller and more.     Some players are thriving, advocating and investing in their futures while others have struggled.  Find out what your favorite player has been up to on the latest episode of the Chick N’ Nuggets Podcast with Jena Garcia, featuring Reilly Biller.

After tonight’s win against the Thunder, the Nuggets head out on a nine day road trip with five games against good teams including: the Suns, Mavericks, Heat and Spurs.

After a frustrating loss to the Brooklyn Nets, the Nuggets frustrations are overflowing and fans are feeling it.  In this episode, Jena and Reilly also answer all of the questions fans submitted to the mailbag, including; trade talk, Michael Porter Jr's COVID situation and what to do with Gary Harris.  Big thank you to all the fans who submitted questions! 

We all know Gary Harris and Will Barton haven't had the best start to the season but they aren’t the only two struggling on this team.  The Nuggets are also starting the season off with their worst start in the Malone era.  Should fans be worried?  Should Malone be worried?  All these questions are answered and as a bonus the girls talk potential trade options the Nuggets could be shopping at the deadline.

And like always there is NBA betting talk on this episode.

Turns out the Kings game was a great one to bet.  The lines moved in both directions throughout the game and the favored team, the Nuggets, ended up losing. AGAIN.

The girls also gave each of the Nuggets players a New Years Resolution for 2021.  In the segment there are jokes and tons of funny resolutions backed by basketball knowledge to defend each argument.  After a second loss to the Kings, I’d say some of these resolutions could just be solutions to the Nuggets early season woes.