Nuggets at Clippers recap: Lineup blunders cost the Nuggets again

Looks like you didn’t miss out on tonight’s tomfoolery.

Good try typing in a straight face.

it’s a damn ugly shot, hell K-Mart shoots the 3 better than that

Not out of the woods yet.

I mean you should know this right?

I thought Faried was doing a much better job on Griffin. Then Karl had to bench him

unless this epic collapse continues past all star break. then i say get a high draft pick and totally tank

More work for ya, Jeff?

You have the rest of the INTERNET.

I know Selby in the other post, and im tracking that IP to burn it now, just tweet me the other names to find so we can get rid of it

what was the guy posting?

maybe Al but I’m holding back a little with him

I don’t think Nene is in any danger of being traded…but stranger things have happened.

especially if we get chandler and jham plays like this. rudy can be turned into a pick, and dre won’t resign so he needs to be moved as well. Also bird if someone will take him

Karl for putting him in their too long and Al for not having the cajones to say I’m too tired and can’t go.

Don’t know what you have till it’s gone, eh?

Pop will sit Parker and duncan again

We need that crazy guy.

He’s a taller and less knuckleheaded (still pending) JR.

I think he’s got a great future – he takes good shots, he’s aggressive and he’s a good 3 point shooter. The way to have a really good team is get a bunch of guys who do multiple things well and he’s he does more than one thing well (passes + rebounds).

he sprained his ankle, and he looked completely different. Since he’s come back, he looks like he did at the beginning of the year – just as you described. I think the time away set him back a lot. Plus, I don’t think the ankle is fully healed. There were a couple of times last night, most notably on the tip-in oop, where he came down and grimaced in pain, and then limped slightly as he went up the floor. I don’t know for sure that he’s still hurting, but my subjective observations say that he is.

and Al can practice free throws at the other end.

This issue has plagued the Nuggets during Andre’s first stint with the Nuggets when Karl was hired. Teams know that Karl loves drives to the basket and then kick out. But when both your PG’s can’t hit an outside shot to save their lives. It defeats the purpose because teams are packing the paint again and double teaming post players. The spacing is AWFUL because of the lack of outside shooting. I think the Dre experiment is cool but he doesn’t want to be am off the bench player. Lets move Bird and Andre for Steve Nash..STAT

but have to repeat my assertion from last night that the Clippers’ announcers are mostly just complete idiots. It’s a lucky accident that they said something that turns out to have some validity.

Hamilton hasn’t gotten the confidence to take over the game… yet.

Everyone is aware that the team is decimated with injuries but there was some errors in lineup decisions. Al was having a bad night and in crunch time, 3 plays were called that ended up with Al bricking 3s badly. No one would have been angry if the nuggets lost the same way with GK subbing to find someone who could score and maybe getting a big in there for a rebound.

This is still pretty much a fan site and you have to take the good with the bad. Like people suggesting crazy trades or picking up any and all free agents. I remember a couple years ago everyone clamoring for Marc Gasol. Imagine him in a GK system? He would never get to one side of the court.

Brewer makes a layup on a 3 on 1 fast break and this is a whole different game. Maybe Karl is playing Al cause he’s the only real scoring threat the Nuggs have right now? I’d like to see half of these “desk jockeys” coach one minute in the NBA let alone a whole game.

On another note, glad we aren’t depending on Kmart any more.

unfortunately, he also appears to have forgotten so much, that most of the posters on this site know more than he appears to. How anyone can continue to defend Karl at this point is beyond me. On and off the court, he has gone off the rails. The man needs to go home and spend some time with his family.

Who are you referring to when you say “a bunch of desk jockeys talking tough behind a computer screen”? To Jeff and myself? We’ve met with Karl face-to-face. It’s not like Jeff is on here screaming to have the coach fired. Did you read his article? He’s simply being critical of the rotation patter from the game and voicing concern over rotation patterns. Jeff even says Karl is a good coach and that he’s not on the “fire” him train.

It’s 100% fair to question rotation patterns in a game. I’ll defend Jeff’s right to discuss that all day. I was frustrated with it as well.

We enjoy having your voice here. There’s a lot more going on with the site from the three writers than “bitch fests”. There is “actual material”, but if you choose not to notice it or read it, that’s okay too.

This is a blog. We are not beat writers. Hell, talking with the guys from RMC last night I came away that felt the same way I did. You are absolutely 100% free to express your displeasure at anything Andy, Nate or I write at any time. I have zero problem with that.

Hope you change your mind

Coaches get shitcanned all the time, Mike Shanahan was one of the most celebrated coaches in the NFL and Denver fired him after a few year of mediocrity. Shanahan thought he was untouchable and comfortable resting on his laurels.

Masai has given his a team of his dreams, it’s a Ferrari and he’s driving it like a Honda Civic. He’s not maximizing the potential, sticking with AL and Dre when they’ve played so long when the younger more energenic rookies were kicking ass is just not excusable. Now we got an even more tired ass Al and Dre tonight to play against the Spurs. It’s lazy coaching and it’s sabotaging the team.

The appeal to authority can be a valid argument. But with that perspective, you could never criticize any professional sports coach. And I’m sorry, but sometimes they fuck up, like anyone else.

No one is saying they would be a better basketball coach than Karl (although I really truly think that there are games where I could do a better job with rotations, because I think he has irrational biases that get in the way of his undeniable basketball knowledge). But that is not the standard we are judging GK by-that would be pointless. We are judging him by the standard that he gets paid millions of dollars to be better than most other coaches, and many of us think he is failing at that.

And I’m not 100% sure, but I really really doubt that I or much anybody else here would change their mind about last night’s coaching performance if we were privy to every practice. I think those of us that watch almost every game have a pretty good sense of who these guys are. I guess it’s just about having some trust in your own judgment. Trust me, I give appropriate consideration to Karl’s superior basketball knowledge when I criticize him, but you shouldn’t let that completely override what you’re thinking and seeing.

There’s plenty of nonsense on a fan site, but so many of the complaints here about Karl’s coaching are 100% percent legit, based as they are on informed fans’ opinions, which have been formed over many years of serious study of the game. Many of the complaints are also quite modulated and moderate, as are Jeff’s in this very game recap.

If you want to take flight, that’s your prerogative. But your complaint is way off base.

i think a 24 hour wait period could help defer trolls. unless this guy is really relentless.

i mean, he probably hedges the best out of all our bigs. he actually puts a body on someone when the shot goes up. so just because others are getting rebounds, a lot of time its bc he clears the area under the basket. his help D is good.

not very good on O. but i feel like he activity on the offensive boards is good. doesnt have a nice touch like Moz though, and his hands are probably only slightly better which isnt sayin much.

No porn intended.

the rest of us would still be available for the free for all. But if you have a troll, he can only come back after 24 hours.

where as soon as something is flagged 3 times, it get’s erased. Then, if you have 3 triple flags from posters, you get a temporary ban or something. Gotta give some power to the people!

in which he basically stated that the team has done a great job but he doesn’t feel like he’s brought much to the table and only gave himself credit for maybe 3 or 4 wins.

That said, he is realizing that he’s not doing the best job coaching. And the assistants must be some pretty passive dudes to not have the courage to step up behind Karls ear and mention “hey, Al looks beat, maybe we should pull him” or something like that… Everyone in the world can see this, a coach DEFINITELY should be able to. I have gained tremendous respect for Al Harrington over the past month.

Just in case people think we complainers can’t see the good things, I was blown away by the Nuggets’ crisp, effective defensive rotations in the first half.