Big 3

Petro will get more time than AC?

If only we could just have the sub .500 teams beat by the th quarter every game and let Allen and Petro take some minutes and all or bigs can get some rest. Either that or another damn big cough Chris Wilcox.

Every other team has had a superstar and a star. Jordan and Pippen, Shaq and Kobe, Kobe and Gasol, Boston’s big Three, Wade and Shaq, Duncan and either Robinson, Ginobli or Parker (yes i realize that Ginobli and Parker have played together for their championship runs, but only one has actually stood out as the de facto number two in a given series) only the 04’ Pistons stand out as a team with no clear cut number one or two. The fact is that while Detroit had no superstars, they had 5 stars. Chauncey a star as a scoring pg, Rip a star as a scoring wing, Prince a star as a defensive wing, Sheed a star as a big who can stretch the floor and d’s up well, Ben Wallace a star as the most dominant defensive player (at the time). The Nuggets…well it will be interesting to see. Melo is a superstar, you can try and argue that all you want but he’s put up the numbers to justify his standing. You might argue that he doesn’t have the playoff success of a superstar but I’d say the fact that he took a franchise that had been in the dregs of the NBA for nearly a decade and put them into the playoffs every single year he’s been in the league stands alone as a barometer of his success. Chauncey is certainly every bit of the second star persona. After that? it gets hard to say. Look at the three dynasties of the past 15 or so years. The Lakers, Spurs and Bulls all had a bit more then just two stars and role players. The bulls always had a great PF, whether it was Grant or Rodman. The Lakers had a great floor general in Harper (so did the Bulls for that matter as they had harper for the latter three of their championships) and both the Lakers and the Spurs benefited from probably the greatest clutch shooter ever in Robert Horry. The Bulls and Lakers had a deadly 3 point specialist (Kerr/Paxson and Fox for the Lakers). The Spurs always have had three scoring options. Do the Nuggets have enough talent to complement their two stars? It’s tough to say. Yes K-mart, or even JR, could fill out the third scoring option. K-mart is also the defensive beast, but is it enough? Would you say K-mart is as good as Rodman? I would find a hard time arguing that point. Is JR as good as Manu? No, he could be, but lacks the discipline (and of course the superb flopping ability). Do the Nuggets top two compare to the likes of Jordan/Pippen or Kobe/Shaq? No, look i’m as big of Nuggets fan as there is but to compare the likes of Melo and Chauncey to those other two tandems is ludicrous. We are so close, it’s what makes it so frustrating, but honestly I feel like unless one of the role players, whether it be K-mart, Nene or Smith, steps up to the next level, it will take some fortunate circumstances to get us the gold ball. I truly feel we are one piece away from glory, but otherwise we will continue to fall excruciatingly just short