One silver lining with the ridiculous rash of injuries for the Nuggets this season has been the opportunities for a lot of young players to step up and prove what they can do. One guy who has been taking advantage and turning some heads recently is Jalen Pickett, who especially shone in the team’s improbable win against the 76ers.
While raving about the Nuggets and how well they’ve played recently without Nikola Jokic on a recent podcast, Kevin O’Connor of Yahoo! Sports compared Pickett to Tyrese Haliburton more than once. In his conversation with Tom Haberstroh, KOC gushed about how Pickett kept attacking Philadelphia, specifically dragging Joel Embiid into pick-and-roll actions, and crushing him with step-back three-pointers.