Gary Harris returned from an ankle injury two games ago only to be knocked out of Monday's game after just nine minutes. Harris then also missed Denver’s win over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday, and its loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Friday. The Nuggets sit atop the Western Conference. But the notion that Malone is using Harris as a “crutch” rather than trying to get him both fully healthy and fully integrated into the offense for the express purpose of having him ready for the postseason seems badly misplaced. Which college football players are sitting out bowl games. And the contention that Harris “sucks” as a player, rather than struggles when dealing with injuries, is also misguided given what he’s already proven capable of. It forced the Nuggets’ second-leading scorer out of Monday’s game in Toronto after one quarter. Get all the sports news you need, direct to your inbox.
I've covered the Nuggets since 2005, writing for Forbes, BSN Denver, Roundball Mining Company, and more. But if he can, it’s hard to see where a viable replacement comes from – including the prospect of Beasley supplanting him. If he can’t, the Nuggets are trying to win now, and that could tip the scales. To succeed in the playoffs, the Nuggets will need him at full strength. Denver guard Gary Harris is expected to need three-to-four weeks to rehab his right hip injury In the latter, forward Paul Millsap broke his toe, and will presumably miss significant time.
And in the case of Harris, the pertinent question when it comes to trade considerations should probably not be whether he has become the players he’s been in January (he is better than this), but whether he will be healthy enough by April to deliver again the kind of performance he put in last year in the playoffs. You may opt-out by.
And once again, Harris is far from the only player whose numbers are down this season.
Harris’ current slump stands out as being worse across the board. So the fan frustration with watching him miss shot after shot is completely understandable (if perhaps somewhat misplaced, as I will proceed to contend). Harris’ 37.2% effective field goal percentage over the past 10 games, which splits the difference between those of Turner and Bacon, has quite literally hit the bottom of the heap. Second-year wing Torrey Craig has replaced Harris in the starting lineup.
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Harris then also missed Denver’s win over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday, and its loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Friday. But when the last two seasons are dissected to a more granular level, with each subdivided based on stretches before and after Harris suffered injuries, a fairly post-injury slide is clearly evident (although not consistently in every category). He was limited in his return after missing the entire resumption thus far, although his presence on the defensive end was evident. The Nuggets sit atop the Western Conference. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Which college football players are sitting out bowl games. Harris has played 10 games in the 2020 calendar year from Denver’s January 2 win at the Indiana Pacers through Sunday’s loss at Detroit. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 8, 2018. Harris’ points per game plummeted last season from 16.8 to 10.9 following his return from a late November hip injury.
A similar though less pronounced pattern can be seen following (and in the midst of) his more recent abductor injury. In order to gauge the temperature of the fan base, I put up the following poll: It first needs to be acknowledged that this poll is entirely unscientific. But that combined with his defensive impact, where he’s a bona fide playmaker who disrupts passing lanes, nabs steals, often guards the opponent’s best backcourt player, and generally pesters the other team with scrappy, relentless effort. More from Yahoo Sports: • Brown: Remembering Luis Valbuena and his love of baseball • Warriors remind everyone in NBA who’s boss • Reports: Ayton, Booker ‘exchanged words’ in front of media after Suns loss • Which college football players are sitting out bowl games?
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Harris is leveling out at closer toa 35% than 40% three-point shooter, which renders him capable, but about average from the arc for his position.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 8, 2018
Harris has missed 29 of his 36 three-point attempts through this stretch, and practically nobody at his position is shooting at a worse rate this season. Gary Harris is not on the injury report ahead of Game 7 against the Jazz on Tuesday. That said, many assessments of Harris’ overall declining performance this season are at least partly a product of recency bias, and have tended to overlook the impact of injuries on his performance (his being “injury-prone” notwithstanding as an additional reason some want to see him traded). What now seems to set him apart from his teammates, however, is how differently he is apparently perceived by the Nuggets fan base, a large segment of which is seemingly more than ready to move on from Denver’s longest-tenured player. A survey of fans exiting the Pepsi Center following a Nuggets home win, for example, would almost certainly produce quite different results. There is unquestionably a clear and potent groundswell of dissatisfaction with Gary Harris’ performance this season among a significant number of Nuggets fans. After playing 21 minutes during the Game 6 victory on Sunday, it would appear Harris has emerged unscathed and will take his place in the lineup on Tuesday. Harris previously missed two games in late November with a left ankle injury. In order to avoid straw-manning those in favor of the Nuggets trading Harris, a good place to start is with his offensive performance over the past five weeks, which has legitimately been awful in comparison with the far higher bar he has set for himself before in the brighter stretches of his career. Profiling Gary Harris’ injury riddled 2018-19 season with the Denver Nuggets By Ryan Blackburn @NBABlackburn May 22, 2019, 3:00am MDT Share this story
I personally had been unaware of just how pervasive this sentiment was in Nuggets Nation until a tweet I posted following Denver’s recent frustrating overtime road loss to the Detroit Pistons elicited an outpouring of replies on Twitter from fans who clearly feel they have seen enough of Harris in a Nuggets uniform. The two players are in the second and third percentiles respectively in eFG%, meaning that 97% to 98% of NBA players in the same position are shooting better.
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The resulting perception is that this results in Harris (albeit through no fault of his own) becoming an obstacle impeding the growth and development of players who would potentially, if allowed the opportunity, pass him by and supplant him as core players in Denver’s longer-term future. Also, Nuggets Twitter constitutes a particularly engaged and opinionated sub-demographic of Denver’s fan base, and one that takes stronger-than-average interest in front office machinations of player movement, roster building and salary cap matters. In this sense, it would not be fair to say that all of the fans who would like to see him traded are feeling a genuine “anti-Gary Harris” sentiment. Denver guard Gary Harris is expected to need three-to-four weeks to rehab his right hip injury, league sources tell ESPN. Trey Lyles will presumably take Millsap’s place. Gary Harris' numbers over the past two seasons indicate that his recent shooting struggles could be injury-related. More from Yahoo Sports: • Brown: Remembering Luis Valbuena and his love of baseball • Warriors remind everyone in NBA who’s boss • Reports: Ayton, Booker ‘exchanged words’ in front of media after Suns loss • Which college football players are sitting out bowl games?
With all of those caveats out of the way, however, the poll results are lopsided enough to be regarded as meaningful.
Harris previously missed two games in late November with a left ankle injury. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. In the latter, forward Paul Millsap broke his toe, and will presumably miss significant time. The statistics site CleaningTheGlass.com features percentile figures which are useful for context here.
Evan Turner has an eFG% of 36.9% among players in the same “wing” position category as Gary Harris, and Dwayne Bacon’s eFG% is at 39.4%. Ways Gary Harris grew as a player A common trend in Harris first four seasons in the NBA is that he always found a way to get better year after year. [All statistics used in this article are via NBA.com/stats unless otherwise indicated.]. Denver guard Gary Harris is expected to need three-to-four weeks to rehab his right hip injury, league sources tell ESPN. Denver Nuggets guard Gary Harris will miss 3-4 weeks with a right hip injury, according to a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. It forced the Nuggets’ second-leading scorer out of Monday’s game in Toronto after one quarter.
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