Weekly Optimism: Back from the Dead!

After some of your comments in the recap? I thought for sure we lost the last sane voice on this site that is perpetually filled with negativity. Nuggets had a hard schedule over the whole month of March. Here’s to turning things around in April.

Go Nuggets!!!

It was a bad slump, yes, but it ended last night. Believe it.

this is the most frusturated the team has looked since the 08 series w/ the Lakeshow. I refuse to believe that in a 2week span this team can go from contender to pretender. We need to make it through the rough patch and get to the playoffs as healthy as can be. I don’t know about all of you, but I got the feeling in last nights game that the Nuggs could take Dallas. Even though our team played horrible, it seemed that we had a shot. Lets see how it goes once this team gets some rest, gets some players back, and most of all starts to believe in itself againg. Don’t forget, in the playoffs, no team plays back to back. For all of the Dallas players and fans yucking it up, I still just get this feeling that the nuggs can handle em w/ all things equal.

I am totally shoving my words into my mouth about Petro guarding Dirk: to make it explicitly clear, I was 100% wrong and you were 100% right about putting Graham on Dirk instead.

Petro is still too raw and too young to play without fouling and Graham did a much better job on Dirk than he did.

There. I said it. :p

Everyone is giving up yet they don’t understand how tough of a trip that was… fellas getting back up to the 2 is just as easy as losing it… I’m not worried even if Denver gets the 5 seed… as long as Martin and GK are back Denver will be just fine!

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We are sitting in one of his familiar rooms at the hospital getting fluids – and found out that he will be done with his treatments this Friday so we are very excited about the news. I asked him while we were sitting here what his thoughts are and he said he wants everybody to go have a party for him- we are still not sure what the future holds for the recovery process but he knows he doesn’t have to get his face burnt everyday. We have some serious hurdles to overcome but we are looking forward to the challenge. Thanks for all the love and support it has been incredible.

It just can’t be overstated how important that is as the first step towards getting this team back. Keeping him on the bench made things harder than they should have been. The starters have clearly worn down at this point, it’s easy to look at their struggles and say “why don’t you do more” while they are missing their coach and one of their counterpart captains on defense.

Getting Ty back, putting Anthony Carter to sleep and losing all of these tough games can be the first steps in this team taking charge of their fate and accepting who they are without Kenyon and GK. Is it a bad deal? Maybe, but they must stop acting like this is a bad dream that’s going to end when K-Mart and GK ride in with the cavalry at some unknown future date. They are playing a game and trying to win. The only way to move forward is to start a new journey, rebuild the trust and find a new way to play for each other. I don’t think we are going to get Kenyon or GK back for the playoffs. There are real life circumstances beyond the game that nobody can control. These guys have to approach it like that or they won’t be able to grasp what they have to do.

I can’t even begin to tell you how cool that Blur song was when it was played during and after the Avalanche Stanley Cup winning game 7 against New Jersey in 2001. And yes, I was there.

I hope the slump is over. I still think this team, even without K-Mart and GK, can beat anyone if they pull their heads out of their arses.

than stay at the 5 and play Phoenix

a healthy Denver team lost to Phoenix twice, and the one Denver win was a huge comeback late in the game.

It was disappointing, but somewhere among the losing something else happened, the Nuggets clinched a spot in the playoffs. This team is talented enough to play and beat anyone in a 7 game series, not saying they will but they can, therefore the simple fact that we’re in the tourney means we have a shot to win it all

I think that the Nuggets started playing much better in the last two games than the first three. I think that we could have beat both the Magic and the Mav’s if not for things that might not happen again. JJ Reddick(6) getting more free throws than Melo (4) and Chauncey(0)? Ya I don’t think that will happen again. Melo and Chauncey shooting 6-30? Ya don’t think that will happen again. The team played hard in both games and fought back! That has been missing.

Obviously other stuff needs to be fixed (Hello interior defense and closing out on three-point shooters!), but I feel that the Nuggets are primed to go into the post season on a nice streak, win the NW division, get the 2nd or 3rd seed, and play the Lakers in the conference finals! Go Nuggets!

Apr 1 Portland W if they don’t win this one then my optimisim is about done haha!
Apr 3 LA Clippers W They dont have Baron Davis and just barely beat the Rockets to end their 11 game road losing streak
Apr 7 @ Oklahoma City
Apr 8 LA Lakers
Apr 10 San Antonio
Apr 12 Memphis
Apr 13 @ Phoenix

potentially lose their next three games.

At Memphis then Home for Orlando and OKC….

Fingers crossed

I want 7-0, and the 2nd seed.

Because in Denver, people shouldn’t ever give up…

Or make it Colorado or whatever…

I accept BS’s apology (don’t feel like going up there to post a reply)

I’m going to be more positive from here on out. Nuggets can still win the second seed!!!