This was a “WTF?” that I didn’t care to see tonight. I’m hoping it ends in “WTF, whew.” instead of “ZOMGWTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Considering he knows most of the Nuggets personally youd think he’d be more careful

The Nuggets are a significantly worse team without Kenyon Martin and Ty Lawson. Yes, I’m glad we’re beating up the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons of the league, now. But with the roadies we have to close out the month, where will our defensive intensity come from? Kenyon’s been pulling down incredible numbers for boards and been our team’s defensive quarterback. Ty Lawson’s speed is going to be sorely missed, and if Carter goes down we’re really screwed. It’s looking more and more likely that Lawson’s injury is potentially a Labrum tear, like Jeff Francis had.

I just don’t know if the Nuggets can make it to the WCF, if both Lawson and Kenyon are done; much less out of the first round.

At this point, I think it might be in the best interests of the players and the team if we just shut Lawson and Kenyon down for the remainder of the season, to at the very least give them ~6weeks to heal, and let ourselves fall – if we do – in the standings. Their careers and futures with the Nuggets are more important than a single 3rd-seed season.

We gotta wait until Hochman and Tomasson confirm that shit.

Martin said he’s not worried about it too much &
Ty will be back next Wens. so George will let him backup Carter!

I kinda like the idea of Ty backing up Carter actually because ya know Carter is doing pretty well right now and maybe its time to make some roster changes that can shake things up right before we go in the home stretch of the season.
I wonder if theres a way we could get Skita back, and then we could get
Diawara back and then we could ask Elson back and then convince A.I to come back…………..is there still time?

Even being a forever “hopeful” fan on the title quest, I’ve felt the die was cast back in the fall when the team chose to go low dollar & cost cutting rather then build for the title run.

Going into the season:

• The team has no depth
• The team’s lack of size is a concern
• Your superstar point guard has worn out late in the playoffs the last several years
• Your bigs have an established history of injury problems; especially KMart and his knees
• The rest of the league knows the secret to beating the Nuggets is to throw everybody at Melo and dare the rest of the team to beat you
• Gotta say, yes LeBron is all that. but is there anybody else other than Shaq back in the day who takes more physical abuse than Melo?
• Consistency is an issue with the team
• The coach adamantly sticks to a 8man rotation the Entire year

What happens:

• The team is tired
• The team has injuries
• The team, and specific players are still inconsistent
• Billups has been overused and will likely run out of gas… again
• Melo is beaten up
• KMart’s knee is injured

It makes you want to smack the owner, front office & coach on the back of the head with a rolled up newspaper and yell “You’re not really surprised things are turning out this way”

I hate it I hate it I hate… but can anybody really say they didn’t see this coming?

Needs to go to timeout for 5 minutes…

Can’t be hindsight if the crazed masses have been yelling from the roof tops “do something, don’t stand pat”… Danger Danger Danger Will Robinson!!!

Goodbye Denver title hopes. It was fun while it lasted.

:sniff:

Even IF he needs surgery and he’s lost for the season, it doesn’t mean the season is lost. You just gotta have faith in your team and believe they can top anything.

the only thing i could see us do is start Petro against big teams and start graham/balkman against smaller teams
but knowing karl, hell just give malik allen 30 minutes…

If Kmart is done for the season, or even if he is 70% going into the playoffs, the Nuggs are toast. We talked about this from the beginning, without another solid big man, beating the Lakers in 7 games will be almost impossible. It’s a shame knowing Kmart’s and Nene’s history that the Front Office didn’t grab another solid big man. Last night fealt like a funeral at the Pepsi Center, and now I know why… By the way, Bird looks like he is playing on one leg. . though gutting through the pain, he’s not going to make it to the end of the season either by the looks if his hobbling and grimace.

Kenyon Martin was surprised by a Yahoo! Sports report that he has a partially torn left patella tendon.

“I don’t know where [the writer] got that from,‘’ Martin said after Friday’s game. “It’s a little more than tendinitis, but I don’t know if it’s torn.” He expects to hear the results of his MRI on Saturday.

Not time to panic, but certainly time to be worried. Kinda makes passing up Dejuan Blair a bit more troubling…although had we drafted Blair we would have set some NBA record with “most big men that have had a history of knee problems,” with Nene, KMart, Birdman, and Blair. But hey, the Nuggets have inquired about Mark Blount and Mikki Moore!…

Just thinking about those names made me puke. I’d rather see Joey Graham get 30 minutes per game at PF, with Malik Allen and Petroman getting 5 each.

IF Kmart is out….AND if the Nuggets fail to sign a big….would they consider using Petro at center and moving Nene to 4….then sprinkling Graham in to spell Nene.

We all know Karl won’t play Balkman….so maybe this is a “worst case” solution

Jesus god help us …

now that was a stiff!