How to really blow up the Nuggets and rebuild from scratch.

I’ve never been a fan of just completely blowing up the team, but here lately I’m starting to warm up to the idea.

Re-sign Arron Afflalo

Aside from the Carmelo situation, I have no idea why they’re waiting. This should have been done at least a month ago. I fear that the Front Office is so worried about Carmelo, they’re not paying attention to the rest of the team. At lest half of the roster could be up for grabs after this year.

My hope is that when Melo gets traded that Al Harrington goes.

Why not send Balkman instead? Karl never plays the man, so why bother keeping him here?

Unfortunately I don’t think anything can be done until we resolve the coaching situation. I agree with Chuk on all points concerning Karl. Don’t think he wants to let go of pieces like K-Mart and Billups or play the rookies we are going to have in our post Melo pipeline. I don’t think he fully on board with building for a championship as the long term goal. He has only 3 years left and needs to win now. Unless we get a truly awesome trade for Melo I don’t see that as a possibility. In any scenario I see Ty and some other young ~20 year old players being the new core of this team. Karl doesn;t have the patience to see a plan like that through.

The other thing holding us up is the point guard situation. I want Ty starting for this team eventually. What does that mean for Billups? It’s something that has to be resolved. Give Chaunce till the end of the season to figure it out and if we don’t get consistency, let it be known he’s handing the keys over to Ty next year. There are some tough decisions to be made.

I don’t see this happening, if we “Throw whatever contract (Short of a Max contract) for Marc Gasol” and he doesn’t sign then we’ve essentially fucked ourselves since we won’t have a center at all. (oh unless the Polar Bear comes back from rehab LOL)

If you know you plan on letting him walk at the end of this season, wouldn’t you trade him now? I honestly have no ideas as to what kind of trade you could try for him but you could bring in some fairly young sturdy player on the cheap.

especially the line about the team being dickless lol. I think George has got to go after this year. We’re not going to improve and for his sake and ours it’s best if we just part ways.

I disagree about Nene though. I think the reason he’s so inconsistant and passive is because it’s always been Melo’s team. But once he’s gone, this should become Nene’s team. I think building around Favors, Nene and Ty is our best route. I definitely want to see Afflalo resigned, but not JR; we need to pick between one of those two, and I vote AAA. I agree with RD about Chauncey too. Fact of the matter is Ty is just as good as Chauncey right now and he’s our future. There’s not enough room for the both, so I’d try and trade Chauncey or just let him walk at the end of the year unless he really wants to stay and accept a back up role.But to me, the most important thing right now is getting that NJ deal done. That could make our franchise for the next decade if you ask me. It’s crucial we get Favors imo.

New coach, Send Harrington out, and stop playing high offense no D shit. I would really like to see Nene on the team post Melo though I think he could be an all star and a leader for us. If he has to go though id rather trade/ S and T him for a new SF rather than let him walk. Something like Nene, pick for Paul george and Mike Dunleavy would get something good out of it and give us a young cheap player and cap space. Some kind of rebuild is neccessary though

I think myself and GN (correct me if I’m wrong) were two of the biggest proponents to “blow it up” early in the season and I don’t think anything has changed.

The most interesting piece of news to me over the last couple of weeks was Melo’s desire to take some of the current Nuggets pieces with him if he goes to NJ. To this I say, “go nuts.” You want Big Al? Take him. You want Bird? Seeya! NJ may very well provide what we’re desperately seeking for in this… a clean slate. Now, I know a clean slate makes a lot of people cringe but if we’re going to be rebuilding anyways, what’s the point of keeping money on the books like Bird/Harrington? For another 3-4 wins in 2011? Personally, that doesn’t float my boat much. If NJ wants to try and load their team around Lopez/Melo/Harrington/Bird/Harris, I say go nuts. Gimme Favors, gimme the 4 1st’s, gimme Murphy, Humphries, Damion James, either some other expirings or Jordan Farmar and I’ll sign the papers right now.

Long as we’re not taking back Travis Outlaw, I’m pretty amenable to talking about the other parts of the deal so long as I’m getting Favors, the 4 1sts, Murphy and James. If they want to give me Vujacic for Al or Bird straight up later in as part of a “hush-hush” addition to the deal after Vujacic’s 2 months are up, fine. Throw in $3M and we’ll happily cut him and you can resign him for all I care.