the nuggets have inbounds plays for all inbounds OTHER than the one underneath their own hoop. You can’t blame Karl for the thrown away passes in the two WCF games. He had plays for them, but they just weren’t executed properly. Chauncey called a timeout on the underneath their own basket inbounds play in that game against the Mavericks way back in November, not on the side inbounds play like the WCF games. Your argument is slightly misleading in that aspect.

that was the problem when karl first came to denver. the team was being pulled in different directions. gk did not want to trade andre miller when they did the iverson deal. who else could they have traded for iverson…..maybe kmart? you are either a good coach or a bad coach. there is really no in between. karl would be the first to admit he is not the best coach in the nba. he is a good coach and no doubt in the upper half of the league. where he ranks does not matter. i think he is the best coach for denver. the denver coaching staff top to bottom is the best in the nba. a good indicator for a coach in any sport is when an assistant coach becomes a head coach. scott brooks with ok city and nate mcmillan with portland were assistants for karl. he is criticized for not working the officials. last season denver shot more free throws than any other team. jerry sloan of utah has been working the officials for over 40 years as a player and coach. last season utah shot the third most free throws in the league. it will be critical for the bench players to execute the half court offense. this has been a problem for years. the fight against the knicks that got melo and jr suspended started because coach isiah thomas felt denver was trying to run up the score. the fact was denver would lose a big lead and allow the other team back into the game. with 22 back to back games it will be important to get quality minutes from the bench. a good anology is time of possesion in football. if the subs can run the half court offense for 20+ seconds, make the extra pass and force the other team to exert themselves on defense denver will have a great season. karl’s offense is designed to get drives to the basket and to draw fouls. the players settle for jump shots early in the offense the team will struggle.

George has done a good job, you could also make the argument he single handedly saved the season in his first year here. So unless Coach K has suddenly become tired of Duke (which he never will but IMO he is the best current coach roaming a basketball court, professional or college) Karl is the guy. I mean he’s been damn successful here. I feel like we have been spoiled this past half decade, I can still remember the coaching jobs of Hanzlik, Issel, Bickerstaff etc etc etc….ugh.

Management was clever in not giving him an extension. Time for GK to maintain that success and bring a RING to Denver so that other people can respect the city as more than Broncotown.

I stand very, very biased on this subject so I am gonna cut to the chase. We, over at the old Denver Stiffs all were there for the same reason, we don’t feel George Karl is right for this job. At this point in time, the Nuggets are a championship caliber team. George Karl is a perennial choke artist when it comes to the post season. He can’t lead us to a title, he can’t even win us playoff games. His decisions last year in the WCFs cost us that series. It’s time that we refuse to settle for the mediocre, and start reaching for some bigger goals. We have the players, we have the management, but we dont’ have the coach. You have to be blind not to see that and you have to be blind not to see that George Karl is not the right coach for this team. He’s like a pedestrian trying to drive an F-1 race-car. We can’t afford to have a coach that is so blinded by his own ego that he makes decisions that hurt us. That is unacceptable at this level and it is exacerbated by the fact that we have such a good team at this point in time. Sure we have made it to the playoffs 5 or 6 consecutive years, but up till last season, each one of those trips to the playoffs was an utter disaster and it was all orchestrated by none other than George Karl. We lost to teams that were a lower seed than us, we had players admitting to quitting (IN THE PLAYOFFS!!!), we had games where we didn’t even look like we cared, and on and on. So you can think that Karl was the one who turned this franchise around but just know that you’re absolutely crazy. Melo and the Nugs front office turned this franchise around, not Karl. And if it weren’t for Chauncey’s arrival Karl’s ass would have been axed last year. I’m not trying to be an a*hole here but people need to realize that sometimes, when you’re on the verge of something good and there’s only one thing really holding you back, no matter what the history is, if that person is holding you back you need to rid yourself of them. Karl is the anchor to our ship’s freedom, and right now, I know there are a hell of a lot of Nuggets fans out there that would love to see the full potential of this team, without Karl.