Billups is Team USA's leader... (Golden Nuggets)
by Andrew Feinstein on Jul 27, 2010 2:06 PM MDT
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With little Nuggets-related news to analyze these days, it's good to see Chauncey Billups leading a team of young guys as Team USA prepares for the 2010 FIBA World Championships in Turkey.
Billups, Odom 'Old Heads' on Team USA -- NBA FanHouse
Fanhouse's Chris Tomasson catches up with Billups in Las Vegas...
Team USA Notebook: Boeheim Hopes Anthony Stays Long-Term in Denver -- NBA FanHouse
...and Carmelo Anthony's former college coach Jim Boeheim on Melo's future in Denver.
Who's going to be left behind in Vegas? Here's who is on the Team USA bubble - ESPN
ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan calls Billups Team USA's "unquestioned leader."
2010 World Championships: Can This Team USA Begin A New Chapter Of Dominance? - SBNation.com
I question why Team USA is holding tryouts just a month before the World Championships when this could have been done last summer.
NUGGETS: Williams sees opportunity to shine in Denver
Aaron Lopez of Nuggets.com gets up close and personal with new Nuggets Shelden Williams.
2010 Fortunate 50 - SI.com
Melo ranks 25th on SI.com's list of the top-50 highest paid American athletes. I want to know how Melo is getting $6 million a year in endorsement dollars.
Ranking the Western Conference - Basketball News & NBA Rumors -
HOOPSWORLD's Susan Bible has the Nuggets ranked 4th in the Western Conference right now.
Shaq Wants to Wear Celtics Green -- NBA FanHouse
So much for my pipe dream of Shaquille O'Neal having his fairwell tour in a Nuggets uniform.
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I'm happy for Chauncey
But I’m worried that he’s going to get worn out again.
Chris Andersen could be in a porno with his 'stache. Too bad he still wouldn't know how to box out.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
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I really wish he wasn't playing
too many minutes on those legs.
Formerly KS and CS
by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Jul 27, 2010 2:05 PM MDT up reply actions
Happy for Billups
Chauncey clearly loves to be the leader and I’m happy he’s taking it to the next level in representing our country. Sounds like he might be the starter which would be awesome.
Good read on Sheldon. I know we give him tons of crap already, and he hasn’t even played, but it sounds like he hopped on the Al bandwaggon of shattering preconcieved notions about his defense and overall abilities. Hopefully he contributes this season.
Not so sure about the rakings out West done by Bible. Having young, inexperienced teams like Blazers and Thunder ahead of teams who’ve been around the block a few times like us the Mavs and even Utah seems a bit of a stretch. I see the West shaping out like this…
1. Lakers, ugh
2. Us, homerism
3. Mavs, too much talent
4. Thunder, Durant + great young core and offseason
5. Phoenix, great offseason + young guys getting even better
6. Jazz, again too much talent not to succeed
7. Blazers, injuries once again
8. Rockets, assuming Yao plays most of the season
9. Grizzlies, if they gel enough and finally step up they could even make the playoffs
10. Spurs, Duncan is finally getting too old and injuries will take hold
11. Clippers, have tons of talent but like always will find a way to suck
12. Kings, good coaching and inside presence will help them succeed, still to young
13. Hornets, at least they have Paul who will keep them afloat
14. Wolves, I’m finally convinced Kahn has no clue
15. Warriors, no defense and injuries will kill them
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No offense to Bible,
But I feel that she’s the worst writer on HoopsWorld. HoopsWorld has honestly long been my favorite site for NBA analysis (not necessarily news, Twitter trumps that now. :P) and I’ve never really felt like she knows what she’s talking about. She seems like a great person, and a decent writer, but still…
Btw, I’m still disappointed that Travis Heath moved on. I’m happy for him and all, but he was easily my favorite writer on HoopsWorld, and not just because he was a Nuggets writer. Eric Pincus is still great, even though he writes for the Lakers, and Alex Kennedy is my idol (LOL i would love to be a NBA journalist, and I’m going to be a senior in high school, so maybe I can get an opportunity when I’m in college like him. :P)
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Btw, about the rankings
I think I’d take Thunder over Mavs (Durant, I have to admit, may be better than Melo at this point, although not by much), Jazz at 5, and lower Suns, Blazers and Rockets (no real improvement after Amare in PHX, injuries in PDX, and it’ll be the same old thing in HOU this year)
"J.R. SMITH! WITH NO REGARD FOR COMMON SENSE!" - Future Kevin Harlan Quote
"Scars remind us of where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going."
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billups should have been on the 2008 olympic team. look what he did against dallas and nawlins in the 2009 playoffs. i was shocked the usa took a gold medal without chauncey. cb1 will be a good soldier and support his country. jerry colangelo will then burn him and keep him off of the 2012 olympic team. the younger prima donnas take the summer off to make an obscene contribution to their own bank accounts while billups effort this summer will go for nothing in 2012.
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Kids wure do have a funny way of showing respect these days. i remember when “sir” was just as acceptable
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Those WC rankings are a joke
Portland at 2? Houston at 7? OKC at 3?
LOL, pretty pathetic. Here are my rankings:
LAL – 65 wins
DEN – 61 wins
DAL – 54 wins
HOU – 53 wins
POR – 49 wins
UTAH – 49 wins
OKC – 48 wins
PHOENIX or San Antonio – 46 wins
60+ for the nuggs this season?!
gasus, from the posts ive read of yours, youre pretty staright forward and leave out the sarcasm. so i cant make out if youre serious or not here with a 60+ win prediction.
i think the nugs will be lucky to match last years total. i dont see us going any higher than 55…and thats very hopeful.
by calvin brodus on Jul 27, 2010 10:37 AM MDT up reply actions
Yeah but we had K-Mart for much of the year
This year we won’t have him hardly at all it seems like. He’s our defense, without him we’re just gonna be run and gun. I think we probably would have got close to 60 but I still don’t think we would have gone over. Remember the Lakers only had 57 regular season wins last year, that means we may have had the 1 seed going into the playoffs. :(
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by GoldenNugget on Jul 28, 2010 9:26 AM MDT up reply actions
let's not forget all the games we mailed in against sub-par teams
I know this is all conjecture. Every team deals with injuries, every team has cold spells. It takes a lot of real factors coming together to win 60, but purely based on talent, last years team was as capable of doing it as any.
It just makes me think of that dumb thing Rex Chapman said about if he had known somebody was going to be injured.
Sub .500 scrubs
We lost 12 or 13 to sub .500 teams last year. If we had bothered to show up in at least half of them, then we would have had the #1 spot no doubt. Let’s just hope 3-Skin is serious about his commitment to defense this year and that Nene get’s the spirit of old Moses Malone, Karl Malone… hell even Sam Malone from Cheers would be better than Nene’s general passive mentality of last year.
FIGJAM Bitches!
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by Joelsopinion on Jul 28, 2010 11:27 AM MDT up reply actions
That can't happen again
Once in a great while, but not like last year. We have to play better on the road too.
Chris Andersen could be in a porno with his 'stache. Too bad he still wouldn't know how to box out.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
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The beginning of the year is so f*cking crucial, it worries me
We’re going to be missing our defensive leader and our shotblocking/energy man (although Lawson can provide the energy easily)
Chris Andersen could be in a porno with his 'stache. Too bad he still wouldn't know how to box out.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Quitter's Proud United Member #11
the roster at the start of the year
should still be a very good one, and we should be well in the race for a playoff spot. We might look a little more like the 07-08 Nuggets, but that should put us in pretty good position to make a second half run.
Here’s hoping everybody steps up on D.
It would have been Nugs 1 or 2 if Kmart and GK didn't go down last year
This year the Nugs have Harrington for insurance and a very good 3rd big moving Bird to the 4th big spot. Kmart will have time to rest up his knee until he is 100% which should be anywhere between 20 and 40 games into the season. Once Kmart is back the Nugs have an improved Lawson to add to their core. All that can happen if the injury bug doesn’t bite fiercly this year is improvement from the Nugs. The Western Conference got a lot weaker this offseason and the Nugs just improved. Lakers, Nugs, and Rockets are the only 3 significant teams that improved this offseason in the Western Conference. Mark my words, Nugs pull 60 wins quite easily as they will be inspired by the return of GK and the addition of Al Harrington.
Nugs are going to be sick this year!
umm...
u think denver’s winning the northwest by 12 games?! lol, idk about that, its gonna be way closer than that, i think the lakers and dallas have better overall teams than denver, and i think its close between utah/denver/okc/portland to make up seeds 3-6
I guess if everyone's playing the rankings game...
Lakers
Jazz
Mavs
Thunder
Suns
Nuggets
Blazers
Rockets
Grizzlies
Spurs
Clippers
Kings
Hornets
Warriors
Wolves
Utah isn't #2
My take:
Lakers
Suns/Thunder
Suns/Thunder
Dallas
Denver/Utah
Denver/Utah
Spurs
Blazers
Chris Andersen could be in a porno with his 'stache. Too bad he still wouldn't know how to box out.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Quitter's Proud United Member #11
For whatever reason the Lakers seem to get better as the playoffs go longer.
My hope this…
1.) Lakers
2-7.) Don’t care
8.) Nuggets
Nuggs knock out LA in first round and go on to win finals.
Alright I will endulge
1. Lakers- Its hard to argue against this, replaced farmar with blake, added barnes
2. Dallas- Dallas is flat out loaded, with a full offseason and training camp for haywood and butler to gel, plus the addition of Chandler. Tons of size, tons of talent
3. Denver_ This is a homer pick, my gut feels like I should give this spot to OKC or Utah, but I bleed sky blue and gold.
4. OKC- This team is an established big man away form being the best in the conference
5. Utah- Did they really lose any ground with Boozer leaving? No. Matthews? replaced him with Bell, Korver? Eh, yeah alright Korver is a minor loss, but imagine what big al will do with Deron Williams getting him the ball instead of Ramon Sessions
6. Portland- Portland is a playoff team, but definitely not a 2 seed (are you kidding me?!!!) they should fall somewhere between 5-8, sidenote: Is the Northwest just about as ridiculously talented of a division as you can get?
7. San Antonio- I think this team has one more playoff year in them before they have to go to full scale rebuilding mode
8. Memphis- Every year there is a new team who slips into the playoffs, Memphis is my pick this year
9. Phoenix- Mega fall from the WCF for sure, but thats what happens when you replace Amar’e Stoudemire with Hakim Warrick
10. Houston- This could be a very very dangerous team, a playoff team even, but it all depends on Yao and I’m on the side who’s betting against him
11. Clippers- Once again, the Clippers look great…on paper.
12. Sacremento- Reke and Cousins help Sactown start inching their way up, they could just as easily be in the 8 spot instead of Memphis
13. NOR- Free fall continues, despite what he says to the media and his current employers, CP3 is already planning his departure
14. Golden State- They will score 120 a game and still lose by 15
15. Minnesota- They have Kevin Love, but what else is there, seriously, who else is on this team that can make plays when you need it? Brewer? maybe but after that they are relying on the likes of Delonte West, Luke Ridnour, Johnny Flynn and my favorite…Darko Milicic
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