Comments on: Rapid Reaction: Denver Nuggets 112, Milwaukee Bucks 104

By: Aurress20

Aurress20 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:44:26 +0000

He’s a Dukey.of course he shud get punched in the nose: magette, boozer, dunleavy…. singler might actually beat Dunleavy in my book.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:18:01 +0000

Um… I don’t remember any of these coaches being “committed” to playing deep in the bench. Karl is already playing rotation that is 9 deep, and people constantly complain about too few minutes for Faried and McGee. I think the only way this happens if we start blowing everyone out every night.

I can’t speak about Auerbach though, but I did get to meet him (and smoke a cigar) with him (and Rick Neuheisel) in the Hyatt Hotel in SD when the Buffs played in the ’95 Fiesta Bowl.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:58:29 +0000

What happened is that GK went small for the majority of the game, allowing Sammie to go off… However, notice that no other Bucks player had more than 12… that is pretty impressive. Letting Dalembert have a career night is better than Jennings or Ellis getting one. Career nights for those guys would be 49 and 56 respectively.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:50:37 +0000

Two things should be pointed out here…

First, you mention Kosta’s shot/shooting as being poor… how then does his FG% rank in the top 4 in the NBA? (he is excluded because this category has an arbitrary 10 pt/gm min… which is odd since no other shooting category does)

Second, and this is not a critique just an observation. This Nugget team, and everyone rely and/or put too much emphasis on the altitude giving a home court advantage…which is dangerous.

This advantage while real enough, does not exist in the Playoffs. Every study I’ve ever seen seems to agree that bodies acclimate to changes in altitude in 2 days or less.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but there are no back to backs in the Playoffs, right? Additionally with the very structure of the staggered home/away games, the advantage is lost.

That is all…

By: mike

mike — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:04:51 +0000

Currently, This team’s title hopes rest on the top 4 teams (MIA, OKC, LAC, and SAS) not being healthy in the playoffs. Ty is a nice player. Iguodala is a nice player. Faried is a nice player. Gallo is a nice player. This team has no legit all-stars. If they had someone like Dwight Howard or Maybe even a healthy Pau I could see you making a case as the guys they have would “play up” with a post big that could draw attention and make up for defensive lapses. But alas they have a few decent bigs who have major flaws (Mcgee consistently makes silly mistakes that cost points on both offense and defense, Kosta is a great backup, but is average almost across the board with below average shooting and athleticism). This team is only one significant upgrade from being a title contender, but clearly is not as currently constituted.

I would put up serious money on 2:1 odds of them not even making it to a game 7 against a healthy version of the Spurs, OKC, and LAC (assuming top 3 players on each team are healthy). And that takes into account that I think the nugs have the best home court advantage in the league…

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:05:31 +0000

Combine the two and get Brandler… Oooooh and Chewer.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:03:28 +0000

This dude is even more negative than you are Prospector… just a thought… maybe George Karl might know slightly more about basketball (and running a team) than a n3rd whose only contact with a basketball was in Big 5…

We all may not enjoy small ball, but there is no arguing with 1100 wins… I wonder how many wins Andres Alvarez has… outside of NBA2K13 of course.

By: park hill

park hill — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:29:31 +0000

I remember when me and few others were yelling keep C-brew whatever you do.

We can drop the Ty aggressive issues. He’s learning to be a true pg. I’m not saying he doesn’t lapse when we need him. But he finishes games and is still learning the art of scoring when needed. Remember who taught him, and look who he plays with now. How else would he be?

Sam D got off cuz the focus was on the Iverson like guards for the Bucks. I agree with someone who said it, Ty is a better pg than those cats–right now.

GK is doing better than expected at rotating the line up. I still don’t get no effort is made to get AR and JHAM comfy. I’m thinking Phil Jackson, Doc and Pops (and only these coaches come to mind, maybe Riley and Auerbach) would get these guys in for at least 3 mins every night. I see it as a must to be as deep as possible and fully loaded as possible when its time to sit OKC or SA on their ass.

By: Charliemyboy

Charliemyboy — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:32:49 +0000

The trade off to stopping the guards was Dalenbart. After forcing their guard to the wrong side in the second half, the strategy worked. Their guards ran out of gas. We were still fresh due to depth.

By: dynamo.joe

dynamo.joe — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:07:44 +0000

This I agree with. I like Dunleavy and wish we would trade for him, but I would also like to punch him in the face.