Nuggets at Bobcats recap: 1,000 has to wait...

An old Nugget schools em…. Toronto’s up and down, but they do play quite well at times.

It will be very tough though. There are basically no playoff teams in the West playing like we do on the road.

It’s a quarter of the way through the season, we are way way down with the bottom of the league in terms of road wins. I thought this game would be an indicator of if our team was up to the challenge of turning that around. I think we are gonna have a really hard time and need to regroup at home.

You were supposed to post negativity and hatred.

Wouldn’t put that one in the bank, not by a longshot.

every team loses, it happens, yes it was a bad loss, but not disgusting…

This team is crippled and just a average basketball team w/out them.

Have you seen Charlottes from line? (I’m guessing you have if you watched the game tonight.) We’re talking Stephen Jackson (6’6"), Gerald Wallace (6’8"), Tyrus Thomas (6’9"), Boris Diaw (6’8") and of course Nazr Mohammed (who?) and Michael Jordan’s illegitamte child: Kwame Brown. There’s no reason rebounding should have been an issue tonight.

That would be an epic win on the second of a back to back though.

Boston is money at home They are 9-1. Plus, they have the top defense in the league. They’ve had the gold standard for team D for a few years now.

Boston is a much tougher team than Charlotte

on national TV, which will then start the whole Melo talks up again.

we aren’t healthy, our coach is sick, someones in a slump
could it be nuggs are just avg at best?

How important it is for even “star” players to continue to develop their game and learn new moves. Melo looks like he stagnated over the summer and refs aren’t interested in ALWAYS
bailing his ass out.

that the coach is ultimately responsible for everything that goes on on the floor. If he doesn’t like the energy, call a timeout (as Pop often does if he doesn’t like the energy in the first minute!) jump their asses like there’s no tomorrow and make sure they’re playing twice as hard following the timeout. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen Karl do that. He’s so hand off a lot of the time, he has nobody to blame but himself.

that the Nuggets won’t make the playoffs? What are these teams home records?

What was our record on the road last year? Were we above 500 or below? Can’t remember.

We don’t belong with the top four of the West.

or that he was going to get fouled and was fouled as far as I could see.

wow.

Jr was in position for a possible tip in too

Year of the Mavericks. They now play some serious defense. Chandler and Marion have amped up the intensity.

I’d love to have their problems. And the first round loss was a total fluke. I mean, they pretty consistently went to the playoffs and went far. Karl’s team generally always lose in the first round

And REALLY wanted to win, he would have gone to Dallas. That team is a much better fit for him than where he’s at right now. And plus he’d have Mark Cuban his whole career. Not much more you can ask for there.

I have peace now…lol…

no new column of doom!

I pretty much knew we were going to lose tonight. It made too much sense to not happen. The way we lost was so anticlimactic like you said too. Get dominated most of the night, play a bad enough team that they couldn’t put it away – and then lose on such a comically bad last play that just sums up this team.

I fear with Karl likely on deck for a few more years our championship window has shut completely.

1000 wins aside, this was a really big game for our team. It would have told us if our shakey little win streak was legit or just a stroke of good luck. It was a huge game, and we got our answer. Just more of the same from Karl and the Nuggets this year – and likely 3 more years ahead

I saw enough of him tonight to make a pretty good estimate of what the deal is. He’s starting to lose interest. If he keeps it up, he’s no longer helping us win basketball games, and at that point in time you have to trade him for the benifit of the team. He just seems like he’s now going through the motions. I never thought he was before, but I do now. It’s like he’s just half-hearted in his effort and not really engaged in HELPING us win. It’s almost like he’s just doing enough to keep his scoring average up. At this point, I’m not digging Melo’s play.

Ty not looking to ever be an all-star. Sophomore growth with fits and starts.
Harrington seems to be fading……..

Did you see what Tyrus Thomas and Gerald Wallace did to him all night?

The guy is declining really quickly. He basically sucks if he’s not consistently scoring double digits off the bench, because he is so much of a liability anywhere else. Shelden is more valuable because at least he knows his limits. Have you also noticed… Harrington has no chemistry with anyone on this team. He’s basically a worse version of Melo who tends to take a lot of questionable shots and slack off on defense. That 5 year deal was too much man.

Lawson, like you said, isn’t getting it done. But GK needs to realize that he can’t play with Chauncey. He actually played quite well when he was the only PG in the lineup.

We lost that damn game because of one minute.
Heads should roll.

he cannot finish at the rim like wade or lebron. like those 2 or not they have also been on the all defensive team. last season durant passed melo by. this season it will be blake griffin. no way is he worth a max contract. max money should only be for max effort at both ends of the court. he wants the most but gives the least.

He’s a pure scorer, and that’s it. I think when he wants to be a team player, or rebounder, or whatever it may be he can; but at heart Melo is a “me-first” type of dude. If he just committed more to off-the-ball movement and coming off screens to hit j’s in motion, he’d be deadly – maybe even the best player in the league. But he just seems so committed to stopping the entire flow of the offense, and doing one of two things: A) jab-step to jump-shot, and B) driving to the hole. He’s just too one-dimensional right now.

Melo’s been in the league for long enough. People know he’s a pure scorer, and a somewhat one-dimensional player. Thing is, he’s probably the best at what he does in the entire league and that’s enough for teams to salivate over his services. The Knicks especially; they’ve been in the doldrums for so many damn years they’d do anything right now to secure Melo.

and the JR quirp. When in Jr’s career has he ever gotten praise from Karl about his work ethic? That’s what was showing me he is finally willing to take on a bit more. He is the best 6th man in the game right now. If/when Melo leaves, I would not be the least bit surprised if JR tries to take on the weight of being the anchor of a team.

I wasn’t raising my voice there by the way.

Throughout Melo’s ups and downs, one thing has always remained constant

They simply don’t play as a team while bringing the best out in each other. All of the great teams in the history of the game, they had either a certain culture, or such strong leadership, or such great chemistry that collectively they were always more than the sum of their parts. Normally, there would be one star, the focal point of the team that made everyone around him better and brought out the best traits in his teammates.

The Nuggets have none of that. They are particularly lacking in heart, mental focus and leadership. Likely, some of it is due to the Melo situation and all of the drama surrounding the team because of it.

That is why when Melo was having all of those great games earlier in the season, we still found plenty of ways to lose. Why? This team is okay, pretty good actually. But they are not special. They are simply very talented, very rich, and ultimately not much more than the simple sum of their individual parts.

Das monae rite derrr. (Mayne impression)

Washington still had 1 more time out. I hear USC motivational music in the background though, so not all is lost.

they can go 4-0 and he won’t be HC, at least I would highly doubt it. I remember being impressed by what Dan Hawkins said early in his CU tenure fwiw.

HAHAAHAHAH

So… I’m not trying to blame anyone here.

But seriously, in a situation like that how can the team be so discombobulated? It seems like Chauncey had one plan in mind, Melo had a different plan, and George Karl wasn’t sure. Meanwhile the rest of the team and the Bobcats were just kind of shocked at how clueless everyone else and haphazardly runs down the court where the game ends.

How does that even happen in pro sports? It’s kind of funny actually

Let’s hope Dec 15th brings us a decent trade with good (if not great) pieces and we can play better as a team.

He hasn’t been HELPING the team win these past four games or so.

Andrew called him out for it wondering what the deal was and people were coming up with the excuse that the chairs might hurt his legs when he sits down, even though no matter how injured I see players across the NBA the never miss games. It’s just bogus how people will come up with excuses these days.