Heard this on the radio wonder if it’s true? Not only is this a concern for the nuggets future but it pisses me off he wants to live in laker land? Or maybe he wants to be a laker/clipper come free agency time? Anyboby else know this new revelation?

I never got the feeling the Nuggets were ever truly in trouble in this game

Really the first game in a while where I could see his smoothness in full effect. He wasn’t really the “raging bull” we have come to have know on offense (though he was on defese), mainly hitting silky j’s as his primary was to get buckets. I was really impressed by his rebounding. I never knew he could be that tenacious on the glass. Reminded me of his ’Cuse days a bit. AD is doing a great job too. The guys all seem to like playing for him, as they all seem very happy the past few games.

This gives the starters a little more rest going into the second half. So long as AC, Graham, and Tacos can keep the game close, there’s no reason not to use a 10 man rotation in the 2nd quarter IMO.

I had obligations, so I DVRed the game at halftime. I was nervous about the Nuggets since it was so close for so long. But I was never that nervous. Denver survived a bad game from AC and JR Smith because Melo had a good game. Not great. But solid. He made shots when it mattered and picked up some slack on the boards with K-Mart’s absence. I’m real happy with Melo after tonight.

Also: I am again impressed by Petro, who logged a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds in 24 minutes. Not bad at all. I feel vindicated advocating for a deep rotation all season with this talent wasting on the bench. Though, to be honest, it was Malik Allen coming off the bench instead of Petro. See. I can admit when I am wrong.

Big game tomorrow. The Nuggets have a chance to break over .500 on the road and play decent basketball on the second night of a back-to-back.

Peace,
FA

Hey, Ho, let’s go, Petro! Petro! Petro!

there is nobody and i mean NOBODY writing anything on that blog. And NO still has a team?

but I wish he did not get worked as much as he did against West, granted West has been his toughest assignment all season long, but there was times when he did not come up on his man, possibly waiting for help from the blindside but he kept allowing West to stroke that 15-20 foot jumper and working his way to the basket, However he did well enough on the boards and seems to be getting better at blocking his man out. He is doing his part on offense, namely tip-ins and that little 10 foot jump shot he can hit, so hopefully he can progress and not become a liability on both ends of the floor but I hope he can develop his own game so we can rest the other big men more often.

By JR at the end of the half. (The one directly after the play where he was out of position on offense leading to Chauncey throwing one into the crowd). Big BBall IQ on that guy. Nice dunk against the TWolves with no one around him, though. Can totally see him holding the Larry O’Brien.

Too bad I missed it, but considering the Nuggets won, I’m not complaining too much. :]

But Collison played well, so whatever. Hopefully someday JR can have a decent shooting night AND put numbers across the stat sheet.

Balkman wasn’t the only scrub who played like an idiot in garbage time. In blowouts, our end of the bench always “disrespected” the game (to coin a Karl phrase) and did not do anything to give Karl confidence in them. Leads would go from 30 to 20 when we played scrubs.

Why didn’t they control Kobe and beat the l*kers???????

the Nugs were far too loose those first 3 quarters. You want them to have fun but damn that sloppy un-focused play will not due against better teams. The 4th on other hand was the Nugs saying “fuck this we are gonna start playing like we can and get this W”.

I think last night might have been some of the worst passing I’ve seen, and from guys who are normally good passers, too. We pulled it together late to win, but how many easy steals did they get off us? It seemed like every other possession and it was leading to a high percentage of their offense. If it weren’t for easy hoops off of steals and long rebounds (we missed an absurd amount of threes, as well), that game was a blow out. It was like everyone was a bad quarterback constantly forcing passes into double coverage.