Still strong! Valan scored 18+9 in his debut, and rose to 4th in history. The Nuggets found a treasure, the Lakers regret it

During the offseason this summer, the Denver Nuggets achieved very strong reinforcement and signings.

While the outside world is generally not optimistic about the Nuggets' ability to upgrade, the new management of the Nuggets has completed several extremely outstanding transactions with iron fist methods, which has brought huge changes to the team.

First of all, Porter Jr. exchanged the Nets for Cameron Johnson's deal, which is considered a masterpiece in the Nuggets' trading market this summer.

The better one is still behind. The Nuggets exchanged Valancius for Valancius, who could hardly play the ball. Such a nearly robbery transaction directly improved the Nuggets' inside strength a lot.

So far, the Nuggets have once again become one of the favorites to win the championship in the new season.

Some people say that Valan is older, slower, and his skills are no longer popular in all aspects. He may have limited improvements to the Nuggets. For example, the Lakers had previously intended to get Valan, but later they felt that Valan might not be suitable for the team, so they gave up the idea of ​​getting Valan.

However, the recent European Men's Basketball Championship has proved that Valan still has very strong strength.

On August 27, in the group stage of the Men's Basketball European Championship, Lithuania easily defeated Britain 94-70.

In this game, Lithuanian player Valanciunas made 7 of 13 shots and 4 of 6 free throws, scoring the game's highest 18 points and 9 rebounds, plus 1 assist and 1 block.

In this way, his total rebounds in the European Championship reached 309, surpassing Gasol Jr.'s 307 and rising to the fourth place in European Championship history. The top three are: 475 of Gasol, 364 of Nowitzki and 314 of Boris Dior.

Varan is not only excellent in rebounding skills, but his scoring is also the best in European Championship history.

Media Donatas Urbanas counted the top five scoring tables of active players in the European Championships, as follows:

1, Valanciunas (Lithuania) 475 points

2, Schroeder (Germany) 448 points

3, Bogdanovic (Serbia) 367 points

4, Doncic (Slovenia) 311 points

5, Costas Slokas (Greece) 277 points

Many people sighed about Valan's outstanding performance, and it turns out that he is still so strong.

Commentator Duan Ran commented on Lithuania and Valan: "In the first European Cup, Lithuania easily defeated Britain. Lithuania is a little magical, and made 2 of 19 three-pointers in the game. However, Lithuania can still score 94 points with only 2 three-pointers, which is really strong offensive firepower. Valan scored 18 points and 9 rebounds in his 21 minutes of playing, and there is still a lot of oil in the fuel tank!"

From this perspective, in the new season, the Nuggets' inside strength is simply terrifying. They have superstars like Jokic and centers like Valan who can start on other teams to play substitutes for Jokic. They are simply perfect inside partner.

If this looks like this, the Lakers were not interested in Valan at the time, and it seemed that they shouldn't be right, even if they got Ayton this summer. Just imagine, if the Lakers traded Valan at a price similar to Saric and asked Valan to play a substitute for Ayton, would the Lakers' inside line be terrible?

It can only be said that sometimes, Lakers General Manager Pelinka seems a little cautious and not decisive enough. Relatively speaking, the new management of the Nuggets, who are decisive and decisive, look very outstanding.

The new season, look forward to the performance of the Nuggets and Valan!