Golden Nuggets: The ghost of Chauncey Billups haunts many ...

Chauncey’s really just a role player these days, and being on a team with 4-5 point guards really doesn’t help any. The Clippers are a good team though, so I’m happy for him.

It was a winnable game that we lost. Our defense / turnovers late in the game are to blame. Billups’ patented rise up underneath move to get fouled isn’t called as much anymore so he’s adapted his game to include the flop. Sad to see.

next time he can go 4-17 with 6 TOs. If there is a team where having Ty out hurts the most it’s probably the guard heavy Clippers. No need to panic, meanwhile Nene almost made me wet myself with his Beast mode last night.

I wish him all the best. From a basketball decision perspective, we had to do what we had to do. Sometimes you have to make tough decisions.

I can’t hate on Chauncey, even after that game.

Garretson is the guy Nick Van Exel shoved onto the scorers table. Can anyone confirm that stat?

Billups executed at least one academy award level flop near the end of the game, but the officials ignored other flops duing the game, so it’s not a big issue. Gallo — however — should have gone to the free throw line more than once (he didn’t earn any) in the last five minutes. Getting hammered repeatedly and having the officials ignore it is somewhat inexcusable.

Like you Andrew, I see Ty’s absence as the big handicap. And I reached that opinion in advance.

We see the Cippers twice more in the next few weeks, as I recall. Winning the first matchup is important but the real question is where wie’ll be after we play a number of winning teams in the second quarter of the season.

in his latest column he lists the “up and comers” of this year and manages to include John Wall, Tyreke Evans, Ty Lawson, Eric Gordon, DeMarcus Cousins, Andrea Bargnani, and not Gallo. Not only is he the best player on the Nuggets (better than lawson and therefore deserves a spot over these other guys because his team happens to be better and he is it’s best player) but also far more efficient than everyone on this list with the possible exception of (surprisingly) Bargnani, and that too should be irrelevant because despite his improved efficiency Bargnani is still just as soft and terrible of a defender as ever whereas Gallo is drastically improved in that department. This leads me to conclude (and probably correctly I might add) that Simmons and Co. over at ESPN have not actually seen a single Nuggets game all year. I can see how shocked you all are

And even though many Nuggets fans are seeing a conference finals appearance from the Nuggets this season

would be stunning. We will find out a lot about their chances over the next 17 games. Could be tough.

According to Chinese news sources, conflict erupted after Tianjin fans heckled J.R. Smith as he went to the line late in the third quarter. After what I believe to be Thunderstix were thrown onto the court by a spectator, Smith’s girlfriend got into a shoving match with Tianjin fans while his sister flipped the crowd the double-bird…

Stephanie Smith claims on her Twitter that she didn’t start the fight "this time."

and at 4 in Hollingers more scientific approach.

He is the reason why we have the fastest pace in the league, the reason why we score so many points. Miller can fill the stat sheet better than Lawson, but Lawson is the reason why our team makes teams visiting the Pepsi center exhausted. If Gallo is the fuel that keeps the engine running, Lawson is the horsepower.

Miller is a great backup point guard and he can fill Lawsons shoes whenever he is injured for a few games no dobut, but Lawson is what makes this team GO.

Lawson ain’t there. Of course.

they showed Griffin dunking over Perkins, and I swear the announcer said that Griffin just “Mozgov’d” Perkins. I rewound it like 10 times.

Did anyone else hear or see that?

That might be best all time for me.