Grading the Week: A note for Nuggets coach Michael Malone — the more Bol Bol, the merrier 20-1

The general sentiment out of the first week of Nuggets training camp: Bol Bol remains a work in progress.

The general sentiment out of the Grading the Week offices: Bol Bol remains the most exciting young prospect in the entire Colorado sports landscape and we can’t get enough of him.

Bol Bol — A

So, let us make this plea to Nuggets coach Michael Malone with Denver set to begin its preseason Saturday night: Give us as much of the 7-foot-2 unicorn as we can take this winter … then give us more.

Because, good sir, there is no such thing as too much Bol.

We want to luxuriate in his sweet-shooting 3-point touch, delight in his guard-like ball-handling and wallow in him swatting away opponents’ shots like a dad playing one-on-one with his 8-year-old in the driveway.

When asked earlier this week what his goals are for this season, the 21-year-old’s response was near perfect:

“Personally, just to play a lot more,” he said. “And hopefully win Rookie of the Year.”

To quote Patrick Swayze from the movie “Ghost”: Ditto.

Pac-12 — D-

There’s still time to do the right thing, Pac-12.

If, and when, Colorado beats Utah, and USC follows with a victory of its own over UCLA on Saturday night, the conference seemingly incapable of doing the right and obvious thing should finally do the right and obvious thing.

Put the Pac-12’s only two undefeated teams in next week’s conference championship game, and give us the best possible matchup that we deserve.

The current North Division leader, Washington, might not even be able to play due to that state’s rigid COVID quarantine protocols. And the one behind them, Oregon, has lost two games in a row and is in no way deserving of playing for a conference crown.

The only games the Buffs missed this fall were due to other teams’ inability to play, including, as has been well-documented at this point, the very one that might finish ahead of them in the South Division standings (USC).

If ever there was a year to get weird, it’s this one.

Let the Buffs and Trojans settle this on the field.

CSU Rams — C

This “C” has nothing to do with the Daz, or his Dudes.

No, this “C” stands for “cursed.”

How else can you explain a football team being unable to play half its scheduled games, with the last cancellation (Saturday’s home finale vs. Utah State) having nothing to do with COVID-19?

A player boycott? And it didn’t come from the program that recently completed an internal investigation into allegations of impropriety and abuse?

Unless CSU is able to find an opponent for next week — at this rate, Rams fans, I wouldn’t get your hopes up — the team will have played just one game over the final five weeks of the season.

Between the program’s two “pauses,” four canceled games and the aforementioned investigation, not a whole lot of positives happened this season in FoCo.

Just like everyone else, 2020 can’t end soon enough for the Rams.

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