Kleiza is heading to Greece

Peace out LK. If this had happened at the end of last season then I’d really be upset. But after this past season? Not so much.

Now that Kleiza is out of Denver, in order to keep my fandom at an all time high, this Mizzou alumni hopes the Nuggets sign Kareem Rush.

balls. :(

I hate to say it, but we needed Kleiza. Our bench is now paper thin. This is going to put huge pressure on the FO to sign a backup SF AND a C now.

With little or no bench offense then I don’t see why J.R. Smith couldn’t stay as our 6th man.

I just wish we had traded LK during the 07-08 trading deadline when he still had some decent value.

Hopefully this means Balkman will get more than three minutes of PT each game.

LK seemed like a good guy, but unfortunately didn’t prove his worth. Frankly he doesn’t merrit all of these sob posts. He’s been ineffective for the better part of 2 seasons. While he did routinely show up against the lakers, I can’t think of too much else that we’d miss. We’ve got some new blood on the team, and more money to burn. I think the 09-10 season will be great.

I remember the panic attacks after the Camby deal went down last year. Let’s not even start that up again. I’m sure that the FO is playing chess again.
If anyone cares to read it, Yahoo has a pretty lame post about this over at BDL.

Good times

as opposed to what the Nuggets were seemingly willing to pony up.

I know he is old and on the decline but for a one year contract at the veteran’s min I think he could be had and he would be a solid guy off the bench if he stays healthy. Its a risk I would hope we would take because looking at our bench I don’t see anyone who can score. Although our starting five is more than capable of shouldering the scoring load we can’t be successful without that scorer off the bench.

Novak anyone?

Maybe someone who actually has thrown a pass in his career?

I’m not a fan of Kleiza, and think he’s lazy, but this definitely hurts the Nuggets. As much as I love Balkman and what he brings, he is not a back-up caliber player. Rights now, offensively, our bench looks like one of the worst.

I’m going to toss a name out there… Rodney Carney. He’s sort of like a poor man’s Melo, but more athletic. He can score well in limited minutes, can get up & down the court fast, and he’s got a little bit of hops, as well.

His name hasn’t been brought up at all this off-season, and last week Kahn said he was was unsure if he was going to bring him back. I think he may be a cheap, but serviceable back-up option.

It looks much more likely that Coby Karl makes the roster. Frankly, I’m okay with it.

This means Naldo is going to get more minutes. But Kleiza was counted on to and did make open threes from time to time, which we are severely lacking right now. Get Novak.

Novak or…?

The Nuggets bandwagon is in full force.

Let’s go get Kenyon’s “…drop dead shooter. Just a drop dead shooter.”

Best of luck LK. I didn’t hate you nearly as much as most Nuggets fans.

Really fallen off that much? He was forced out of the rotation last year by Kleiza, but I can’t imagine he can’t put in 10-15 effective minutes in an uptempo system that seems tailor-made for his skill set, especially because he can shift between the three or the four.

Major problem now is simply frontcourt depth. No phone calls to Joe Smith yet?

Obviously when you leave the worlds best basketball league to join some novice, sloppy Euro-league you don’t give a flying f*%k about the game of basketball but only the money. This should have been clear to everyone when Kleiza’s play drastically fell off the minute he got his contract extension revoked by Wark, thank God. I mean seriously, what did Kleiza even do last year besides fumble the ball off his hands every time someone passed it to him? No people, the Sac-town buzzer beating 40point player we all came to love hasn’t been present for years. I don’t know, maybe he will play better with all his Euro friends over in joke league Olympicacos, but I’m not worried about him anymore.

Now what we are left with is…

A) More playing time for one of the most effecient bench players in the league (Balkman).

B) About 3 mil more to sign other players

C) Nearly 6 mil’s worth in total left before we go over the tax and a roster with 11 players already.

I figure like everyone already said, Cobe Karl will most likely take up a roster spot for 1 mil. But other than that it’s anyones guess what we will do with the other leftovers. I heard Novak and I would love that. He is a great shooter and doesn’t have a personality that Karl will have to deal with. Really though, we could sign a pretty good bench player for around 3 mil, then complete the roster with vets min contracts to 2 other players. But with the way things have been going down lately I wouldnt’ be suprised if another deal went down to swing a pretty good player.

to sort out the thinness of your bench urgently. I’m rooting to meet you guys again in the WC Final next year.

Also i hope to see you guys strong enough to do away with the despicable Blazers and win the Northwest title again.

When it was good it was really good! But when it was….. well you get the picture….

I always loved Kleiza and it hurts to see him go. Still need another big, yes. Hopefully a trade goes down.

The only options I possibly see free agentwise are Flip Murray( I really dont know his status) and Wally Sizzurp. I hate Wally, but he’s good enough to get fill the void left although I would take LK anyday.

I still dont understand the no go on Hakim Warrick or Matt Barnes.