Denver Nuggets head coach David Adelman was coaching through fire when it came to the Nuggets rotation last season.

The sheer number of injuries that the team had to endure, primarily to most of their starters and most valuable role players, meant that Adelman had to get creative when it came to who exactly he needed to start and who he needed to rely on coming off the bench.

That chaos led to elevated roles for forwards Peyton Watson and Spencer Jones as well as center Jonas Valanciunas and gave Adelman a taste for utilizing a wide variety of talent, something that Adelman may be doin again this season, even if his starters have the benefit of health on their side. 

Part of why Adelman is considering going up to as high as an 11-man rotation during the season is because of the amount of new acquisitions the Nuggets have made this offseason and how so many of those new acquisitions have impressed Adelman throughout preseason play. 

Forward Trevon Brazile, forward Bryce Hopkins and guard Cam Whitmore are all players that have made a strong impression on Adelman and are a major part of the reason as to why Adelman wants to try to involve all of them, even if it only amounts to a few minutes on the court at a time later in the game.

"You can't be scared to throw those guys out there as we're looking for a rotation," Adelman said (via DNVR Nuggets). 

While involving more of the bench is Adelman's aspiration, the process now is for him to work out the science if that rotation. It isn't enough to just try and throw out as many players possible out on the court, no matter how talented they may be. Adelman also has to work out the fit of his team and that process may take some trial and error.

Working out combinations, especially with Jones back on track after missing the preseason with a hamstring injury, will be critical to working out exactly how this rotation will work.

Based on Adelman's comments, Jones will likely be a major focal point for the secondary rotation and balancing his impact, one that hasn't been truly worked out in preseason because of his injury, will have to be the centerpiece of determining how much playing time the rest of the players coming off the bench get.

An abundance of talent is a good thing, as is a coach's belief in said talent. With more tools to work with than less, Adelman at least has options when it comes to developing his secondary and tertiary rotations, but he now has to do the work to make those options work to the fullest together.