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Nuggets Advanced Stats (82 gms)
| Record | 53 - 29 |
| Pythagorean Record | 56.5 - 25.5 |
| Projected Pyth Rec | 56.5 - 25.5 |
| Defensive Efficiency | 104.7 |
| Offensive Efficiency | 108.7 |
| Pace Factor | 97.3 |
| Field Goal % | 47.0% |
| Opp Field Goal % | 45.6% |
| Effective FG% | 51.1% |
| Opp Effective FG% | 49.5% |
| True Shooting % | 56.3% |
| Opp True Shooting % | 53.5% |
| Def Rebound Rate | 72.8% |
| Off Rebound Rate | 26.0% |
| Total Rebound Rate | 49.6% |
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Talking Melo, Linas Kleiza and more Chris Paul
Over the past few days I have been fortunate enough to appear on Brian Doolittle’s NBA show in St. Louis called At the Buzzer on Sports Radio 1380 to talk about Carmelo Anthony’s future in Denver and I was a guest on Rapcast, the Raptors Republic podcast, to discuss Linas Kleiza and what he will bring as he takes his talents north of the border. In a nutshell Bryan Colangelo is selling Kleiza as a gritty player that will bring stout defense to the Raptors. Talk about setting someone up to fail. Kleiza is a skilled player, but a defensive stalwart he is not.
Ryan Schwan at Hornets 247 sought out the best trade offers for Chris Paul from the members of the TrueHoop Network. My four team masterpiece did not claim the top spot, but earned a gold star. Make sure you head over and check out the best Chris Paul trade proposals from a group of savvy hoops writers.
Introducing the Commentbag!
Welcome to my first ever comment bag (and from what I can tell almost the first ever comment bag period as someone might have beat me to it by a matter of hours). You have read mailbags before, but there has been so much good discussion about recent events that I wanted to make sure everyone saw some of them, and of course I would like to add my highly insightful thoughts as well. All grammatical errors are the responsibility of the author although I did clean a couple of them up. Lucky for you all I hated English class too.
drewjay: Jeremy, I would love to read how your opinion on the LeBron decision, although you might be sick of hearing about it.
More Thoughts on the Al Harrington Signing
After I trashed the Nuggets signing of Al Harrington there was a glimmer of hope that the 5 year, $33.437 million contract was not as bad as first thought. John Hollinger reported that he heard the final two seasons were only partially guaranteed. It appears that is not the case as Chris Tomasson had this little blurb in his article on the signing:
While Dallas, like Denver, offered Harrington the full mid-level exception starting at $5.765 million, Harrington didn’t want to talk about whether the Mavericks were willing to offer him the five fully guaranteed years that Denver did.
Five fully guaranteed years. Once again we are faced with the specter of this deal weighing the Nuggets down in the near future.
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Denver Nuggets Sign Shelden Williams; Resign Anthony Carter
According to @NBAonESPN the Denver Nuggets have agreed to terms with Shelden Williams and resigned Anthony Carter. I have not seen any info on the contracts yet. We know Carter agreed to his typical one year veterans minimum deal. Williams could have been signed with either a minimum contract or the biannual veterans exception which would be a two year deal starting anywhere up to $2.18 million.
Williams was a player I thought Denver should have looked into last season as he is a good defender and rebounder who could be had for cheap. His signing is good news from a defensive standpoint. However, he is a little undersized and while he adds some girth he does not have the length to handle the Lakers’ twin towers. Plus, when everyone is healthy he will be the fifth big and is not likely to see significant minutes. As with Harrington we will take a look at what Williams brings to the table in the coming days.
The Nuggets should just sign Carter to a six year veterans minimum deal because we know as long as he can run he will be a Nugget. With the growth of Lawson Carter should only see the court when either Chauncey or Ty are injured. However, as we saw last season his play suffers when asked to play too many minutes too many nights in a row.
Denver Nuggets Sign Al Harrington
My post about how Denver was one of only two teams yet to add a player to their roster since the end of the 2009-10 season (Cleveland is the other) was interrupted by the announcement that they had come to terms with Al Harrington on a five year, $34 million contract which appears to be a full midlevel exception deal (which has been confirmed by Marc Stein in a new edition of the article).
My response is taking action for the sake of taking action is not always the right thing to do.
Nuggets Miss out on O’Neal; Gain a Chance at Beasley?
There were two free agent signings today that has a direct impact on the Denver Nuggets. Jermaine O’Neal signed with the Boston Celtics and Linas Kleiza is returning to the NBA after signing an offer sheet with the Toronto Raptors. The O’Neal signing is very disappointing, but the Kleiza offer sheet could open up a tremendous opportunity for Denver.
Answering a Big Question
Yesterday I recommended that the Denver Nuggets send the current roster out with a bang. The question then is how exactly can they do such a thing?
Denver has some assets which would have been tasty in the past in the form of Kenyon Martin’s expiring contract as well as J.R. Smith’s expiring deal. In the past expiring contracts have been used to acquire players like Antawn Jamison, Kevin Martin and Marcus Camby exchanged teams last season at the trade deadline for expiring contracts and I bet everyone remembers the deal where the Los Angeles Lakers acquired Pau Gasol for expiring contracts and his younger brother.
The bad news for Denver is with all the teams that have cleared cap space for this summer and the handful of teams who are poised to have cap space next summer, the demand for a big expiring deal like Kenyon’s is very low.
Go Out With A Bang
Whenever the world is coming to an end people always want to literally go out with a bang and have sex. Whether it is the end of Spies Like Us or…um…Spies Like Us that is what happens in movies.
The Nuggets might be reaching the point where they need to go out with a bang, but this time I do not mean sex.
According to this report from ESPN New York Amare Stoudemire, who at this point could very well end up not playing for the New York Knicks, has been in contact with Tony Parker and Carmelo Anthony in an attempt to convince them to join him in New York. Parker’s contract expires after next season and as everyone in America knows Carmelo can opt out of his contract after next season.
Is Carmelo Anthony Worth the Extension Denver is Offering Him?
With the big free agent free for all of 2010 at hand the Denver Nuggets are stuck pondering what could happen in 2011. Denver has offered Carmelo Anthony a three year extension at max dollars in an effort to keep him off the market 12 months from now. From the day the media latched onto Melo’s potential free agency in 2011 I have claimed that the Nuggets would be able to sign him to an extension.
In order to become a free agent next summer Carmelo would have to walk away from a massive payday and doing so simply does not make sense. With Carmelo slated to make over $18 million in 2011-12 and with the current three year, $65 million extension on the table Melo would have to turn his back on a guaranteed $83 million from Denver to play the field next summer. That is a hefty price to pay to check out grass that might not necessarily be greener.
I have written about how important Carmelo is to the Nuggets. He is the face of the franchise and is on track to become the greatest player in franchise history. Denver was a lost franchise before he came to town in 2003 and thanks in large part to the drafting of Carmelo have earned relevance and relative success with him. However, the key word is relative. Should Nuggets fans be content with a continuation of the first round and out tango Denver has been dancing for years? If the Nuggets sign Melo to that extension the Nuggets are basically saying they are happy with the status quo.
Denver Nuggets 2010 NBA Draft Preview
As a Nuggets fan the NBA Draft is usually both the most exciting and most frustrating night of the year. This year Denver heads into the 2010 NBA Draft with zero draft picks to make which could make for a pretty slow evening.
Rumors that Denver was shopping Ty Lawson to get a top ten pick have died off and the current scuttlebutt is Lawson is no longer available, at least not to the teams who are currently interested in acquiring him. Denver is still reportedly interested in getting into the draft, but the question is how? If there is a player they are interested in late in the first round, I think you can count on them swapping next season’s first rounder to nab him.
The Nuggets hosted several big men in a workout on Monday, Craig Brackens from Iowa State, Trevor Booker out of Clemson, Derrick Caracter who played at Louisville before transferring to UTEP, Luke Harangody of Notre Dame, Tulsa’s Jerome Jordan, Jarvis Varando from Mississippi State (who Chad Ford compares to Chris Andersen), Brian Zoubek of Duke and Latavious Williams who is a test case for players going from high school to the D-League.
All of those players are slated to be drafted from the late first to the second round. If one or two of those players wowed the front office and George Karl, who was on hand for the workout as he continues to recover from cancer, Denver will certainly make a play for one of them.
There are teams who are potentially interested in trading out of the first round, but there are other teams such as Cleveland, New York and possibly Dallas trying to get into the action in the first round as well. The bad news for Denver is teams might be more willing to buy a potential lottery ticket by acquiring a pick from a possibly LeBron-less Cavs team or a Knicks team that could strike out in free agency than a pick in the late teens to early twenties from Denver.
We all know the Nuggets need more depth in the frontcourt and they were able to put together an interesting group of players. Brackens and Harangody are intriguing offensive players, Vernando is a defender and shot blocker, Character is a player who entices you with his game, but has a questionable attitude and Booker is a flat out energy and hustle player. Williams may be the most intriguing player, but also is the prospect with the greatest amount of risk.
Even though the Nuggets do not have a pick, Nuggets fans might get a shot of adrenalin once the draft climbs into the mid to late twenties. At the workout on Monday Karl was quoted as saying, “We wouldn’t have guys in here (working out) if we didn’t think we were going to do something.” Denver must improve the roster and with the team likely rummaging around in the free agency bargain bin a failure to get into the draft will be difficult to stomach.