Ya’ll spent most of last season making fun of Tim Connelly but he’re the reality… every move he has made outside of the Gibert trade has been gold for the Wolves. And while the Rudy trade was a clear-cut overpayment, he is being proven right that Towns and Gobert can work.

He also had the KCP trade lined up before leaving town. I was told by a Nuggets reporter we all trust that trade was happening during the Avs Stanley Cup run. Aka well before Booth took over.

So while Booth derserves mad credit for the Bruan selection and for the Brown signing (and Bruce has alluded to him not being the Nuggets first option last offseason), I’ve always felt Booth got a bit too much credit for our run last year. Because if Mal had been healthy in 2021 or 2022, we very well may have had a ring before then.

Meanwhile, Booth has mortgaged nearly every trade asset we have for the following return…

Thomas Bryant (no longer on the team)

Julian Picket (an undersized 24 year old with zero ability to get to the rim or create his own shot)

Kamagate (tbd but as of now, he does not look like an NBA player)

Watson (was a reach based on the idea he could develop offensively but has shown zero growth on that end)

Strawther (who I think is gonna be a player but who had huge question marks about his ability to play defense in the NBA and has been getting shredded on that end)

Now, I expected to get downvoted to all hell, but I think the conversation is woth having. Because we have very few ways of upgrading the roster. All of the chips are pushed in on kids who, outside of Julien, were drafted ahead of where they were expected to go).

And as of right now, none of those kids look ready to contibute. And we failed to cash in our title on any FA agent signings better than RJ and a completely washed Holiday.

And the team has looked worse is this recent stretch than they did at any point without Murray in 2022.