Dunn is looking every bit worthy of the #5 pick. I still can't say that I like his selection but through the first game he's looking good. Active hands leading to several steals; an aggressiveness, attacking the basket on offense. He was able to play along side Tyus pretty well but also with the ball in his hands. Finishing as the highest scorer in the game was a great thing, and will be all the better if it translates into the next season! Last but certainly not least, that crossover was pretty filthy! But it's not all about the Rook, how did some of the other fella's look?
Tyus clearly looked better then the competition. His ability to stay in front of his man on defense is still a work in progress but his distributing and scoring looked requisite of an NBA player. Amazingly he had the most rebounds of anyone who played in the game. The asterisk is the level of competition that they all were going against. Many of these guys will never make it in the NBA but the Nuggets have some very high end guards so it's actually a pretty good litmus test for him and KD, I think!
The other notable player was Adreian Payne. The dude missed an open dunk in the first quarter. It's embarrassing. All things being equal, he did have some nice rebounds and put backs. 5 total rebounds is a paltry total though. The two steals are nice, though they both came early in the game.
So that's the summer big three but how about the rest of the guys?
Wait and see!
