As of this writing, the Nuggets have lost 7 of their last 8 games, and are preparing to face the pacers this afternoon.

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I think that the nuggets have the worst play by play man in the NBA. Seriously this guy needs to back to calling volleyball. The Nuggets and the fans deserve more. Just heard old Al Albert has returned to Denver. Got me thinking maybe he would be a good fit for the Nuggs again
I hope this means we can dump Marlow....Hastings is great, Drew Goodman is great at b-ball 2... so Goodman or Albert.. lose Marlow Please.

I was happy to hear a limited price drop for NBA JAM on the Xbox market place. I jumped on this opertunity to get this game for only 800 MP. As I select out Nuggets I get to pick between Gallo, Harrington, JR and Kenyon. Keep in mind this game came out during this last off season. So i was like oh ok I will update my roster and atleast get Nene. NO, not only to they not have Nene they take off JR and Kenyon (as they should) but they don't add anyone. The nuggets team is Gallo and Buckets....thats it. than you go to a team like the clippers and they have half the roster! they added cp3, billups, and martin to them. I'm one of those guys that it pains me to play other teams in video games. Gallo and Buckets has pretty good stats so no big. I than unlock a mystery player..................Rocky. The big add for the nuggets is Rocky. Now I have had to play against Mutumbo and i'm sure I can unlock him later but still. The fact they only give us 2 current players is crap........Angry Video Game Rant OVAH.......Go Nugs

A look ahead at the rest of February and the rest of the season for the Nuggets

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Execution- The carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action. Crunch Time- A critical period of time during which it is necessary to work hard and fast Playoffs- any final competition to determine a championship. The Denver Nuggets- A proffesional basketball franchise in the National Basketball Association, that lacks execution in crunch time, and will lose in the playoffs because of it.

Lets be honest, this response isn't due to the Houston game, it is due to all the games the nuggets lost (except Portland). There is no way the team is going to blowout every opponent in the playoffs. You can bet that every game will be close. The defensive strategy seems to be just as potent as the offensive strategy down the stretch- below par. Double teams have killed the Nuggets down the stretch, the rotations are late and easy shot fall as a result. Case and Point Budinger 16 points 2 key 3 pointers in the 4th. Kyle Lowry (Aka the second floppiest non Euro player) 2 key 3 pointers in the 4th finishing with 20. Even when we were close in the Portland game, the double team freed Batum to get loose on the edge and he in turn he destroyed us. The 1st Portland game arguably was Matthews best game, he was freed due to doubling Aldridge. Every team we lost to (except NOLA) had a closer. San Antonio has two, the Lakers have the one of the greatest, Portland has developed Aldridge into that role, the clippers have one (THE floppiest non Euro), Houston has its MIP candidate, Memphis will only get tougher to beat once Randolph returns. Its all good and great that Karl believes we do not need a closer but a strategy. The fact remains, every team that we will face in the playoffs will have a closer its time we find out who ours is, and if we don't have one, that is indeed troubling news. (It is also imperative that we sign Chandler now that Gallo is down, and no Chandler is not the closer we need, but he is an undeniable talent)

While I hate to be the bearer of bad news during such an injury-plagued time for this Nuggets squad, I thought I would present an analysis of Arron Afflalo's game this season so we could see the numbers behind what many of us suspect: that something is wrong with Arron Augustin Afflalo. Afflalo has not looked like the same energetic, hard-nosed defender that could shoot the 3 like an AAAssassin that we loved the last two seasons. Let's take a look at the numbers after the break. All numbers are drawn from the excellent website basketball-reference.com.

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http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/07/nuggets-danilo-gallinari-out-with-chip-fracture-in-ankle/

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Every time Kosta plays I wonder what he would do with consistent playing time. Here is what I have dug up from his limited time and while projecting out 12.6 mpg is always a bit of a stretch that’s what hopeful arm chair GM’s do!

First off in his limited time Kosta has shown a PER of 14.67, just a shade off the league average of 15. The issue is that there are 27 centers in the league who are posting a better PER than Kosta. Now, out of those centers, only three are younger than Kosta’s 22 (four if you count Cousins) and one is the same age. Yes, that leaves Kosta in the top five centers of guys his age or younger. Centers simply take longer to develop and 22 is just young for a center.

Nene is pulling down a 16.34 PER for 22nd, and Moz a 12.4 PER for 37th among centers.

Kosta is 12th in the NBA in rebounds per minute of all players averaging more than 10 mpg. Nene is 62 and Moz is 60th. Out of all centers, only Cousins and Kanter are younger than Kouf and outrebounding him per minute. Hawes and Vucevic are close behind. For his age Kosta is the third best rebounder per minute out of all NBA centers.

Onto the intangible metric. Out of Moz, Bird, Nene and Kosta, Kosta is the most aggressive as I have observed and I just appreciate it. Kosta does foul at a rate of 5.4 fouls per48 but I’d rather have an aggressive Kouf in than a Nene who allows layups because he doesn’t want another foul.

For the record the one thing Kosta does not do well is block shots.

I like Nene and I like Moz. Moz is more mobile and after that foul on Griffin, maybe he is coming around. Nene has regressed from his stats last year and I hate seeing that in a guy who just got a new contract. Out of the three only Kosta has clearly proved he deserves more playing time and I think he should get it.

This is the first of a three-part series that will examine the differences between this season and the past few seasons, the empirical impact of the compressed NBA schedule, and finally examining which teams understand the schedule and what their adjustments have been.

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Watching the Nuggets post Melo trade has been fun, exciting, and frustrating at times. We are finally playing team ball, but we were once again unable to make a deep playoff push last year, and I fear the same for this year.

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