Jamal Murray Sets High Expectations for Nuggets' Second Unit

Among the Denver Nuggets' list of top priorities from this offseason, the most important of those tasks for the front office to hit on might have been optimizing the bench unit.

An through a handful of new additions, the Nuggets did exactly that.

They brought in Bruce Brown as a returning face in the backcourt. Tim Hardaway Jr. signed on as a veteran name in the mix. Jonas Valanciunas enters as perhaps the best backup big Nikola Jokic has had behind him throughout his tenure in Denver.

Adding that talent to the second unit was a task that, on paper, the Nuggets passed off as a productive summer, and it's seemingly already begun to show signs of having a pretty productive year ahead through the eyes of those in the building.

That revamped second unit has already caught the attention of Jamal Murray, who, on the second day of training camp, said that the Nuggets bench had a chance to be one of the best in the NBA.

"We're going to have a lot of different lineups out there," Murray said. " It's going to be really cool to have all of the shooting that we have out there. A lot of those guys bring a lot of defense. We're going to be scoring points and defending at a rate that we're not even used to."

"I think that's going to be really good for us, and just having all of these different weapons in different spots, we can have one of the best benches in the league."