Big game for Reggie over his former team. And thoroughly outplaying his former OKC teammates Russel Westbrook and James Harden. He’s had many battles with Westbrook in the past, he’s had disagreements about his role/minutes/contract in OKC back then.
boxscore: https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401584885
Yeah cause hindsight is the best way to evaluate signings
Objectively, signing the guy who could barely play in garbage time by his current team and was cut for being borderline unplayable by the team he was waived by, on the first day of free agency, using your only non vet min money (tax payer mle) , is a poor use of resources.
I’m glad it’s working out and I’m especially glad Reggie is playing well again. I’m a fan and thought he was washed but he’s bounced back really well. But you can point to basically anything and call people idiots by looking purely in hindsight
He came to the Nuggets with less than two months left in the season and had no time to adjust to a completely new system. That’s why he didn’t play. His year with the Clippers wasn’t great but that entire team was an unstable mess. Prior to that Reggie was always a good player who had moments of brilliance in the playoffs. The idea that he was washed at age 32 was always ridiculous and judging a player based on how he performed following a late-season signing is equally ridiculous, especially when every NBA podcaster made it a point to shit on the Nuggets for giving him a fucking 2-year extension for next to nothing. There was never a player the Nuggets were going to sign for that price that is better than Reggie Jackson.