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Nuggets at Bucks recap: Brewer bucks the Bucks in Brewtown

Your Denver Nuggets started their five game road trip on a good note by easily beating the Milwaukee Bucks 105 - 95 with much needed bench help from one Corey Brewer.

Star-divide

Nice way to rebound from a disappointing home loss Nuggets!

Sometimes getting on the road is the best thing for a team after such an up and down homestand. When the Nuggets got to Milwaukee last night they were greeted by tremendously cold and snowy weather, which prevented the usual college-like atmosphere at the Bradley Center. This benefited the Nuggets greatly as the sparse crowd was never really in the game. And from the second quarter to midway through the fourth quarter the Nuggets flirted with a twenty point lead and they were never seriously challenged by Brandon Jennings and the rest of the Bucks.

Players of the game

- Corey Brewer did so much work tonight, he actually did "werk." He finished with a line of 22 points 4 rebounds and 2 steals. Coming in early because of Nuggets foul trouble (and a Rudy Fernandez injury), Brewer provided much needed energy and tenacity that sparked the Nuggets out of the defensive doldrums the Bucks put them in. Whether he is running back ahead of a break or slicing the interior of the Bucks defense (and the occasional timely three-point shot) or using quick hands to knock away a pass, Brewer did it all. Mega star tonight Mr. Corey Brewer. Big round of applause!

- Al Harrington made the most of his minutes on the floor and contributed 16 points and 5 rebounds. Once again Big Al was the largest Nugget on the court. Small ball seems to work against the Bucks for some odd reason. As long as it's kept solely to the team from Milwaukee you will hear no complaints from me. Big Al had himself a very nice game off the bench and had some very nice three point shots (Nuggets finished a respectable 12 -25 from three point land.)

- Ty Lawson and Andre Miller for their assists. Ty didn't have the greatest of offensive games, and frankly Andre Miller still looks disinterested and mopey out there. HOWEVER, both point guards had themselves a great time dishing the rock and coming back with dimes. Ty Lawson finished with 9 assists, and Dre finished with 11 handouts. Dre's passing improved dramatically tonight as opposed to his overall lackluster play the last few games. Lawson has, unfortunately, had his worst offensive games of the season over the last two contests, hopefully he snaps out of it. Otherwise 20 total assists from your point guards is outstanding!

The other players all contributed well. No one had a terrible game. Danilo Gallinari got himself into foul trouble early and sat out most of the second half. Even with his limited action he finished with 14 points 5 rebounds 3 steals and 2 assists. Considering he rarely saw the floor, that is not bad at all. Chris Andersen played more minutes tonight (22 minutes) than he has in a long time and contributed 5 points and 5 rebounds. Nene Hilario also finished with 14 points and 9 rebounds and sat out the entire fourth quarter.

The ebb and flow of the game was entirely on the Nuggets side. Milwaukee was extremely limited offensively, and even though Brandon Jennings finished with 30 points - much of that was in the second half garbage time when threes and shots were being chucked like confetti at a Rip Taylor parade. Andrew Bogut was contained and finished with only 2 points and didn't come back in the game after midway through the third quarter.

All in all, this is a win you absolutely cannot complain about in any way shape or from. Good for the Nuggets to get the taste of that lethargic Utah performance out of their mouths. On to Philadelphia tomorrow night!

Special Announcement

Your Denver Nuggets have been good enough to provide PRIMO seats for the January 27th Toronto Raptors game at Pepsi Center exclusively to Denver Stiffs!

The tickets will be behind the Nuggets bench on row three. These tickets will be given away at Stiffs Night Out on January 21st at Jakes Food and Spirits, when the Nuggets play the Knicks (game is this upcoming Saturday). This is unprecedented, and I'm sure you join Andy, Nate and myself in thanking the Nuggets for such a generous offer.

Get ready for an amazing night at Jakes for Stiffs Night Out. Remember to RSVP on our Facebook page or follow this link to Nate's post about it.

Go Nuggets!

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nice recap

fairly boring game but good the nuggs got back on track
oh yeah and go Gallo obviously

Nuggets have the second best road record in the West at

3-3

just curious

Did Harrington “cut off anyone’s wood” tonight?

LoL

He loves cutting off a guys wood

Did it numerous times.

Just so people get the reference

this is Rip Taylor

http://youtu.be/fe9HRVAw-cQ

Oh I got it, and I LOL'd

I’ll be like Rip Taylor if I can get those tickets at Stiffs Night Out! The original rainmaker!

What section are the seats in?
Not sure what section that is...but from what I understand it's directly behind the Nuggets bench
Some sections have club level access for rows 1-8

and it’s nice up there ya know(and helluva expensive). Thought I’d let you know if they did have club access

Behind Nugs bench should be one of those sections

so come and say hi to me yo

“when threes and shots were being chucked like confetti at a Rip Taylor parade.”

That Jeff, is the funniest thing I’ve read all day!

haha....yeah...the whole write up was just an excuse for that line I think. lol
Corey Brewer = Bruce Bowen

Corey Brewer is pleasant surprise. Looks like the Nuggets style fits his game to a t. Reminds me of a quick Bruce Bowen. Layups and corner 3s. Sometimes gambles a little too much, but schwoo…

I had to listen to the radio feed and the Nuggets announcer was giddy with joy. Good start to the road trip. Tomorrow is going to be a fun game.

Don't forget Harrington referred to Brewer as Pookie

I’m guessing it’s a reference to the below. perhaps because he’s so skinny?

Chris Rock as “Pookie” from New Jack City (1991)

“It KEEP CALLIN’ ME MAN!!!”

Hah..

My wife calls Brewer the “No Shoulders” player and Rudy the “No Butt” player. He probably would prefer Pookie.

if the nuggets were dwarves they'd be named

ty speedy
Brewer clumsey
gallo shooty
nene softey
mozgov biggy smalls
Andremoppy
Koufosstiffy
birdinky
rudyrudy
faried rooky
afflalo hasty
hamilton angry

wait there was a "biggy smalls" dwarf?
wait there was a "biggy smalls" dwarf?
so nice he said it twice
sry for the dbl post

Twasn’t my fault!

Gallo would be

Scaredy

Gallo = floppy
This is funny for many reasons
what's stone's dwarf name?
Ha ha

Shooty. Made me lol.

I will be out of state

For stiffs night out. I vote for giving the tickets to whomever promises to heckle the loudest any time three or more guards are on the court. That should ensure similar generosity from the team in the future.

^^^

This guy deserves the tickets to ensure the Stiffs will be done.

I already said I will win the tickets

Which makes no sense because I am flying out of country the following day

Glad Fernandez is off the court

As much as I don’t like to see anybody injured, I’m not a fan of his play. Combined with Brewer looking great, I’m glad Rudy is out.

That’s dope of the Nuggets organization to be giving away great seats like that to the Stiffs.

dstiffs is the largest nuggets blog... in the entire universe!

Plus Andrew and Nate prolly Smooze Josh and Masai every chance they get.

There's three of us
I said Andrew and Nate probably smooze Josh and Masai

Because you most definitely smooze every chance you get, no question about it. With those other two guys its 50/50.

haahaha! Poor Jeff - the smoozer!

Me, just a 50% smoozer!

they actually didn't play much small ball today

there were normally at least two bigs and EVEN some of al playing sf.

when they did go with the bird at center al at pf lineup they were beaten for rebounds and awful on rotations but bailed themselves out with some 3 balls, but it seems g.k. MAY be starting to wise up. i’m not getting my hopes up though.

Yeah

Corey Brewer was playing small forward and it wasn’t terrible.

Brewer is listed on the roster as a forward, fwiw
Even if he is a three

putting him in constitutes small ball. Look at him next to gallo sometime.

but

he’s basically the same size as Durant, give or take 10lbs and an inch or so

Durant is much bigger

his long arms help him immensely, but neither of them has the strength to take on a Melo or and LBJ at 3.

I thought I heard

Brewer has freakishly long arms as well

He does

And I agree that guarding the Melos and LeBron’s would be a problem for him. But those guys could play the 4 if they had to. Especially LeBron.

Brewer is a legit 2/3. Having seen Rudy and AAA playing the small forward slot, I will gladly take Corey there any day.

to be fair to Miller

he always seems to look disinterested, so its hard to tell when he is ever happy on the court.

ROLL CALL!

that means HE'S NEVER HAPPY!
We were calling the game boring

but it seems we were pretty boring too. usually we have 2 threads of 900 each

yea

wasn’t really in the mood to post that much because of the pace of the game was just dull.

trouble in Portland

They may be regretting the Felton trade in Portland.

And the coach refuses to play the young guys.

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2012/01/blazers_insider_changing_of_the_guards_still_a_wor.html

Poor Blazer fans getting a taste

Reading the article and then the comments, it’s eerily familiar hearing Blazer fans bewildered over why a coach refuses to play young guys without good reason…

Coach Nate McMillan has flirted with playing rookie Nolan Smith, giving him spot duty in Houston on Saturday and alluding to playing him in Monday’s game in New Orleans. He didn’t. And even after his veteran backcourt took everybody on a rollercoaster ride of turnovers (Felton had 8, Crawford 4) and missed shots (the trio went 7-for-26 from the field), McMillan did nothing more than shrug his shoulders.

“Those are our guards,” he said flatly. “It’s not like we are going to go to our young guys.”
WHOO HOO I CRACKED THE TOP 5

This is the proudest day of my life

re. "flirted with a 20 point lead"

I seem to recall the score being 82-61 Nugs at one point, but only for a few seconds before the Bucks got a fast break basket.

enjoyable for me

So for some reason League Pass did not offer up the Altitude broadcast tonight. I was bummed at first about having to watch the Milwaukee broadcast, but it ended up being fun. They seem a little freaked out by Birdman.

And more importantly, it was quite enjoyable for me to hear “Afflalo” and “Danilo” said in a Wisconsin accent.

They weren't bad commentators at all

They said turning the ball over to Denver was like “giving them a big, juicy…..DONUT!” I feel like he looked around the table and that was the first thing he saw.

Haha awesome

I like catching other home town broadcasters from time to time to get their take, and get to hear their quirks.

To be fair, Chris Marlowe has become a much more tolerable broadcaster, and doesn’t baffle me with moronic comments like he did 3 years ago.

I always enjoyed Marlowe's goofiness

Bill Hanzlik used to call Camby – “Marcus Cambyland.”

Good memory! That always cracked me up
Always like hearing different anouncers

Always. Nothing against Hastings and Marlowe. But, their chemistry just isn’t right. Hastings is too clever and subtle and Marlowe sort of a straightlaced goof.

The Milwaukee announcers were pretty good last night. Must be tough to be a Milwaukee fan. With a healthy Bogut, they were supposed to be in the playoff picture this year. Not looking good for them.

winning team/losing team announcers

it seems like that the announcers for losing teams are generally more unbiased than the winning ones … I’m assuming because it’s hard to drum up excitement and trash talk for a bad team.

Marlowe gets the call wrong about 50% of the time

Marlowe: And Nene is called for the foul
Hastings: No, it’s traveling on the other team
Marlowe: And it’s traveling. Nuggets side out of bounds.

LOL

These comments have me laughing today. I can totally hear this in my head.

I disagree

I think these guys compliment each other well. I wonder what Hastings thinks about working with Marlowe. He’s endearing. Almost like a little kid.

I like the term “straightlaced goof.” Hits the nail on the head.

And it could be worse. I’ll take these guys over any TNT/ESPN team anyday, and not just because they’re always anti-Nuggets. I’ll always tune into Altitude even for nationally broadcast games. Kind of like hanging out in a bar with people you know. I don’t mind the post-broadcast on TNT, but I don’t want to hang out with anyone who calls the games on either network for three hours. Hastings/Marlowe are goofy and have fun, just like when I watch a game with friends.

I unfortunately missed Barkley calling some game a couple weeks back (I think). He would be good in the Hastings role. Would be nice to hear what he has to say throughout a game.

Great

Looks like I’m disagreeing with myself. Love this interface…

Mind

I have nothing against Marlow and Hastings. They aren’t bad. And I especially love Hastings. He has a good sense of wry humor, it’s just often lost on Marlowe.

I just like other announcers because it gives you perspective on how the rest of the league looks at the Nuggets.

Most nationally televised games have terrible announcers who don’t know the team well. But that’s how most of the country finds out about the Nuggets and its good to understand the preconceptions. Like at the start of the season, most casual observers thought the Nuggets would be terrible given that they lost Felton, Chandler and Kenyon. But Stiffs and others who followed the team could see something special.

"Steph Curry weighs 120lbs in a soaking wet sweatshirt"

one of the best Hastings lines ever

That's what makes it perfect

The fact that Marlowe doesn’t pick up on the stuff. It’s pure gold. Hastings must just shake his head when he’s alone thinking about it. But Marlowe just seems like a younger brother who wants nothing more than to fit in, and you can’t help but kind of root for him to get the hot girl, even though you know she’ll just break his heart.

Man, I have put way too much thought into this.

yeah, "big, juicy... DONUT!" also cracked me up

Almost Hastings-worthy, I thought

Some of the other teams' broadcasts are pretty decent

Wonder what other cities think of Marlowe and Hastings…..

They are probably in awe of Marlowe’s ability to get in a corporate plug in every sentence he utters.

I remember really liking New Jersey's announcers

And Utah’s were pretty high on the Nuggets, which made their glee in the final part of the fourth quarter when Millsap put the game out of reach that much more harder to swallow.

More harder?

You better hope Thursty isn’t around. His head might explode.

I've been angling for a confrontation with Thursty for a while now

I used to make good money as a sportswriter and editor. And I think it is poor class to point out errors in off-the-cough comments.

I don’t deny that I am prone to typos and grammar mistakes all the time here. But if anyone gives a fuck, they seriously have issues and I will fight them.

off-the-cuff

:-p

Exactly
The one that gets me

is when people type loose for lose. Just irks me. I’ve seen professional sports writers get it wrong.

I make mistakes all the time

you just have to get better then next time…that’s all.

*than
should have been...

you just have to get better then for the next time. As in a progression.

I could care less about grammatical errors.

Meaning I could care less, as opposed to the assholes who mean" I COULDN’T care less" but say they could care less.

It’s the big 12!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m 40 years old, I’m a MAN!!!!!

loss / lose is a common one, too

And yeah, I’ve seen both those in my own copy circled in red. Serious, there is a place for grumpy old ladies with red pens in every newsroom and featured posts should get greater scrutiny.

I dunno. Good writing isn’t about perfect grammatical precision, but having an engaging, easy-to-understand voice that carries throughout the story.

Most grammarians end up as lawyers or technical writers, you know the sort who write the instructions on assembling your child’s Big Wheel on Christmas morning that make NO FUCKING SENSE?

Sorry. Rant over. I am the antithursty.

errr.... "anti-thursty"
There is no hard and fast rule on hyphens

And when in doubt, I prefer to omit, especially when using common prefixes like “anti”, etc.

I mean, that’s why publications have style guides, as a lot of our rules on grammar are simply conventions and are constantly evolving.

I'll show you hard and fast, buddy!!....

…. did you know just about every sentence can be made to sound crude? English is a wonderful language.

It is!

I do love the language and enjoy talking about it. It’s a lot of fun and I always learn new things. I miss being in a newsroom setting. Those were the days!

Yeah, I got your newsroom setting right here, buddy!!

(that one’s kinda weak).

How do you feel about, comma, placement?
or

one instead of won….don’t know why but that one always gets to me

Made me laugh

“They are probably in awe of Marlowe’s ability to get in a corporate plug in every sentence he utters.”

I’m just giggly today, I guess.

Nice win for the Nuggets

Winning a game they needed to win. Started off the road trip with win.

Let’s go to Philly take care of the 76ers!

Brewer is the NBA leader in 3 point percentage for qualified players

10-16 from beyond the arch.

I just figured it out!

Our bench backcourt is the Miller Brew!

Triple hop process = 3 guard lineup ???
If we beat Philly with small ball

I will recant my stance upon George Karls rotations!

Nuggets may win despite his rotations

It’s like overreaching government involvement in the economy, which the economy still manages to overcome, but then the politicians take credit for the recovery anyway.

What?

You aren’t a Keynesian? We are going to have to have a talk, young man.

This

Europe just tried what the Republicans want to do here. Result: They’re going back into recession. If McCain had implemented his plans, the U.S. auto industry would be gone, including Ford, and the country would be in Great Depression 2.0

To a degree, yes, I am

But there are limits to its effectiveness and there’s certainly merit in classical economics. It’s too broad a discussion to have in this format anyhow.

Brewer is making me a believer

I haven’t really been on board but if he keeps making shots, why not?

Tonight will be a big test.

Anyone remember the preseason predictions and I said the 76ers were going to be tough? I do. Possibly the first and only thing I have ever been right about.

I bet my buddy Patrick

$10 that the Knicks would be better than the 76ers in one of the preseason prediction threads.

It’s early in the season still, but I’m counting that $10 as gone and have really grown to enjoy the 76ers’ game. I am a fan.

odd that since Ty has struggled the past two games in scoring why Miller hasn't stepped in that department

If only to prove his point that he should be starting. At least they are getting the assists from Dre or we really should be worried. Good some of the bigs got some rest so they should be more fresh tonight.

One theory on Miller

Maye he’s tired. A lot of miles on those legs.

yet he complains about playing enough minutes

weird

Our Young Front Office

Really continues to show they know what they are doing. I especially like the fact that since they dumped a superstar who cared far more about his Brand then he ever would about Defense, Ujiri and Kroenke have consistently hired mid and low pay players who are Very Defense minded.

Corey Brewer is one of those guys who just helps you win, love Brew’s D…and O. I like the way Rudy was playing recently. Same deal though, Rudy wants to win and play D. Achilles is tricky, heal fast amigo. Mr. Faried is of the same mold. Our Front Office rocks.

I'm curious what other moves they are planning

It sounds like the Celtics are considering blowing it up and starting over. Anyone interested in a K.G. rental for the rest of the year?

No

I can’t stand his antics, but I’m sure I’d love him if he were on our team. I don’t see a place for rentals this year. We’re not close enough to make that push, and it could detract from the process of growing our young team.

Interesting notion

But To me Garnett is on the decline, and has knee issues. I like our Bigs. I think Moz is improving. I like KK. I like Faried. And I think Birds main problem is the same as AAA which is lockout fitness issues, so if he doesn’t get amnestied, I expect him to get stronger as the season goes on. And Nene just needs to stay healthy.

I see us dealing some of our bench/starters to playoff bound teams stricken with injury

Look at how the season is going right now. Teams will get desperate and come calling. Hopefully we can leverage that into some lottery picks for next year.

I expect us to make a splash near the trade deadline.

Andre Miller

It seems as though people on this site have major problems with reading comprehension. Andre NEVER said that he thought he should start for Denver. He had nothing but praise for Ty. He also has NOT complained about his minutes. Go back and actually read the interview. You’re only seeing what you want to see.

Probably right

I haven’t seen anything new on this topic since the initial article and it would be easy to confuse Dre’s stoicism as a bad attitude, to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Andre = Melo or Yoko 2.0

I don’t really believe that.

I am concerned that a losing streak combined with Ty continuing to start will lead to a malcontentpalooza though.

I saw a player having a sharp year

Give an interview expressing his disinterest in his current role, and then have a sharp decline in his quality of play. He did have 11 assists last night, but his overall judgment, influence, and control of the game has been bad over the last week.

Could it have been a bad week that coincided with the interview?
His play seemed to drop off AFTER the interview

although I’m not taking too much out of that interview, pretty sure everyone in the NBA want’s to start, and if you’ve been starting the majority of your career, why would you be happy being a bench player?

Can any of that be attributed to Dre still getting into shape?
As in the preseason I think Brewer's speed helps us this year

Just hope he doesn’t get overimpressed with himself.

“They just ran right by us,” Bucks coach Scott Skiles said. “That was point No. 1 in the game plan, and obviously we failed.”

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