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Raptors vs. Nuggets: Second half thread

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DENVER, CO - MARCH 21: Chris Andersen #11 of the Denver Nuggets battles for position with Reggie Evans #30 of the Toronto Raptors at the Pepsi Center on March 21, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The Nuggets defeated the Raptors 123-90. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Please leave your second half and post-game comments here. Go Nuggets!

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Ham for Tacos

Mark it.

That's something I can get behind!
I already said that!!!!!

me me me me me

You did call it first

Not trying to steal your sunshine or anything.

I'm going with Julyan
I'm here. Everything is going to be okay.
Really enjoyed hearing Ujiri talk with the broadcast team

<3 him so much.

Some Stiffs have talked about getting a Ujiri jersey. Not at bad idea. What would be his number?

I love Mozgov

But he is a total mouth breather.

I could have sworn I just saw you say that

In the other tab.

What’s wrong with breathing through the mouth?

I did

I wanted to reiterate it in the more current thread.

I’ve also noticed Faried looks like he is always rolling his eyes and irritated.

Yeah...maybe he has sinus issues
I think it's meant to indicate a lack of intelligence...

Although I admit I don’t know why/how.

Wikipedia to the rescue!
“In North America, mouth breathing in public is sometimes considered to be less socially acceptable or attractive than nose breathing, as mouth breathers can appear to have a somewhat “slack jawed” look, and mouth breathing can amplify or make more obvious the existence of bad breath. The term ‘mouth breather’ is used as an insult towards a person with a perceived lack of intelligence or someone with poor social skills"
Hmm

I have poor social skills. I am totally self-conscious of how I breathe henceforth.

I feel there is a joke here about

takes one to know one, but I’m not sure…

Watch it!!!
You can dish it out...
Pot + Kettle = Black
That's my point. I'm glad you see that.
That doesn't even make sense

Stop being dumb.

Well, you told me
Nice to see you rack up posts

With 99% of them having nothing of substance to say.

I realized how poorly I worded that

But in essence: you are an idiot.

And you are apparently

a jerk.

What the hell?

What’s up with this bile?

Gosh AAA just looks not good but I know the stiff rule dont criticize AAA ever
Agreed

I’m not going to call the signing a bust, but if he doesn’t shape up soon, he should ride pine.

That's not exactly true. Criticism is fine.

We all know he’s been having a rough time

If brewer or rudy was playing the way he is tonight even miller its oh bench him oh he has bad body language stuff like that it feels like
Brewer and Rudy don't have the cache with

fans that AAA has either.

You are probably right

But Afflalo has shown plenty in the last few years to demonstrate some confidence.

His shot was starting to fall before his groin injury, which makes me even more lax to criticize.

He gets a pass

For being a good defender. Even if his shot isn’t falling, he’s still contributing.

lotta fouls tonight not a lot of great defense
Still going to chalk it up to lockout.

But he really has to get it together at some point…

gallo shooting too many jumpers

rooster’s gotta take it to the hole…

Did they forget that Dre had the ball?
apparently

yah tah tah tah

I love how when the lead starts to slip a bit...

Miller finds a way to get the momentum back.

He can gripe all he wants about not starting. As long as he plays solid, I’m happy.

is AAA still hurt?

he’s just not playing well.

IMO he's not in great shape
Well he is nursing a groin problem

so I’m not surprised

An evil part of me wants Gallo to get a (minor) groin injury.
Why on earth for?
now

thats evil

If that happens

you’re in deep doo-doo buddy.

Rooster hurting his rooster.
I'm telling you man...

if this happens…you are to blame.

Hey.

I meant like REAL minor.

why would you think that?

really hope AAA didnt reinjur that groin!
Was he hobbling?

I might have missed it posting here.

thats #12 alltime assist leader andre miller, now
love me some miller time!
And he's never been to an All Star game.
That's really hard to believe
Bet you could look it up real quick.
Uh, I wasn't doubting you .

You know how people say that’s hard to believe when something seems unbelievable even if it’s true.

Thats cause he does the little things
looks like the nugs are doing well still
Has Nene ever come out and told anyone how exactly to say his name?
isnt his real first name maybyner?
i've always said it as Neh-nay
oh no, our lead is now only 20
I like that gallo has 12 FG attemps (and has hit 6)

but getting to the line only 3 times so far is unacceptable

lets crush him!
tired after sacto huge game?
naw

He’s superhuman. He never gets tired. Right?

I hope we don't get too comfortable

With getting easy points in the paint against these teams with terrible interior defense. We had a lot of problems scoring in the paint against Portland because their interior defense is strong with G. Wallace and Aldridge maintaining the paint. It is a nice thing to see us get to the paint though, but we need to elevate to a higher level against teams with a better defense.

Toronto Commentators freaking out over that put back.
kinda sick especially for a dismal raptors team
the way the raps are playing, they should be
Okay time to put the hammer down
did he yell UNREAL!!

on the putback?

I think they said "on the rim"
I'm starting to freak out

Denver playing bored.

No need to freak out man. It'll be fine
I am

the closer the raptors get, the lesser Manimal comes in

LOL good point
I hope that the Nuggets get on a run soon to push the lead to 25

So Faried, Carroll, and JHam get some actual PT

Were they about to kiss?

It was going to get sensual in the Pepsi Center.

I like that Big Al didnt settle for the 3 drive then kicked out then gallo totally settled come on galllo
dammit gallo

ball basket go to it

Come on Nene....make your dang FTs
Crap

nuggets playing crap bball

Im a little worried
This is rather ugly to watch

Mainly because it’s just lacking interest

Nene always gets into scuffles with big men

Dwight Howard, Perkins, Bynum.. I think he enjoys it.

Wow Nene

7-0 run for Raptors

13 is not a safe lead

yet theyre playing like its a blowout

They just need to wake up

From their stupor

Oh wow...I'm unsure that was a fould
grabbed his waist
so am I

I’ve never seen a fould called in an nba game

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy!!!!
Nice to see the Pepsi Center look pretty crowded
It's Friday night

I tried to get tickets, but there was a good crowd. I only go on slow nights.

Except Sunday. No one will I fail to be there to clap for Billups.

Oh that's true!
*

“no way I fail…”

Ugh.

Here he comes to save us DRE!
Danilo is 2-8 from behind the arc

But Rudy’s raining it so it don’t matter

WE WANT MANIMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In other news

Utah is now 10-7. Good.

YES!!!!!!
If Minnesota wins one more game

We’ll be the only division in the NBA o have all the teams at or above .500

Anybody want to stat check the last time this happened?

This is only their 6th game on the road

The honeymoon is over.

Definitely...

A mouth breather.

K2 sighting.

Interesting.

Koufus in

Faried likely isn’t coming into the game until halfway through the 4th, considering how we’re playing.

RUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bad d by K2 right there need to help out brotha playing too high
ROOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE
George T'd up
that was a crap call anyway
Here he comes to save us

DRE!!

Geez....Toronto kinda got bac in it a little bit...ish
And there is some panic-ish
Nuggets need to wake up
Miller had a point when he said he believes he could be a starter somewhere
Man when we need a bucket 'Dre steps up big.
Hence my

Here he comes to save us…DRE!

Lead at 15

I’m still waiting for the run to get our lead to 25

14 actually

We’re going to win, but I’d like to see our starters rest some more

UGLY QUARTER
Very ugly.

They thought they had already won.

I dunno

I’m not grumpy about it tonight.

They at least started with good energy and got bored with a 20 point + lead. That is way more tolerable than coming out with no energy like Utah or New Orleans.

Man, that pissed me off.

Don't we usually have crap 3rd quarters
not really.
Yeah

But I think one bad Q is about par for the Nuggets.

I seem to remember our first games of the season

and much of last year we let up in the 3rd quarter….

Yea, by the time the 4th quarter began

we started blowing teams out

Nice D by Rudy
very nice D

he disrupted the set-play. Made him go left and he turned the ball over. I enjoy those things more than Chris Anderson blocks.

Dre throws it into the stands

as a shout out to AC

in the 4th

gotta get gallo involved and have him take it to the hoop

I feel like dre will be able to mess with wesetbrook when we play them in the WCF

and ty will wear him out

I like the way you think
Both teams are headed for a major collision somewhere in the playoffs my opinion the WCF

even though the media suggets otherwise

bad offense right now
gosh dangit juwan howard you flopper err I mean bayless
Settle down fellas. Get Gallo going again
Gallo needs to start penetrating and get to the hole
If the lead slips below 10

I’m going to start breaking things.

Honestly, you work hard for your things.

Don’t break them.

He didn't say they were going to be his things :)
Well that's even worse!
I guess it's rudy's turn
I hope rudy never leaves personally I like his handles and he is like JR my first nugget man crush
Here it comes....

Wait for it…

Did Brewer hit the side of the backboard?
man, I wanted MANIMAL to be playing in the 4th
I wanted to see more J-Ham.
Look at the bright side

at least Faried is an undersized PF, if he was 6’10 or taller, Karl would never ever play him.

We seem to have forgotten how to go inside
Hmmmm......this is no good.
Seriously?

Seriously?

omg FUCK!
Stop chucking it up guys

Or I’m going to start up-chucking.

needs to bring miller back in now
fuck

shit fuck fuck fuck

I said I was worried much earlier

Look, teams dont have a switch to turn off and on

get it together guys, a loss would be unacceptable

I'm amending my TACOS prediction

We don’t get no stinkin’ TACOS

John Elway still has a car dealership?
He has some in SoCal
Really? That seems odd. I thought all his dealerships turned into GO dealerships.
I was surprised as well.

He has them in Manhattan Beach, Ontario and Riverside I think

Put in Mozgov!
it's ok, george is gonna tell them to start driving
I've been just nonchalantly

watching the game. How are we only up 6 now?

Well you are watching nonchalantly

They are playing nonchalantly. It’s like a waltz

Leaders!

please lead

Seriously

What the Fuck

GALLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FERNANDEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we really can't sleep on these guys!

El Matadore!

Bah. C'mon Gallo.
When is the last time we drove to the paint?

STOP chucking long jumpers!!!

Why have we stopped going inside?
lol Fernandez went from Hero to Goat

with that AIRBALL

not yet he has carried us so far
Nah, he's earned his pay tonight.
Good move, bad shot.

Can’t hit them all.

lets take it to the hole shaquille!
hahahahaha here's a tweet from John Hollinger
Felton checks in, commits fourth turnover. Blazer brass furiously hitting “Ctrl-Z” on Miller trade.
That's funny
Doesn't Hollinger know that everyone in Portland uses Macs?

Should be “command-z”

Good call

Hipster county!

I use a Mac
Me too

I’m on my 5 year old MacBook as I type!

I also edit on a mac
I like how Blazers fans feel like they claim Miller

When Miller has been a Nugget far longer than he has been a Blazer.

Have we gotten good at fleecing other teams in trades or what?

From The Canswer for Chauncey to the Melo trade to Felton. Amazing

OT: Who the heck is that tiny guy playing for Golden State?
its NATE ROBINSON!!!
AKA SUPERMANS KRYPTONITE
missing TY big time tonight especially since AAA had an off night
AAA having lots of off nights lately

I’m getting concerned

he'll get there, hopefully...
AC has a sick tie haha
can someone besides rudy make a shot?
gallo...

if he actually goes to the basket

YES!!!!!!!!! DRE!!!!!!
That was a bad pass Dre
Andre Miller proves that chewing gum makes you look nonchalant.
sick d rudy cup your balls some more
lol que?

That's one big pic hombre
lol I underestimated the pixels
big picture is big
previous raptors dunk he set up for the charge and watched the guy run by him and slam it
Suck on that mobile phone viewers.
I understood

haha

I'm getting annoyed at the lack of the inside game right now
left...right...left..right...left.... SIT DOWN!!!
I'm confused as to why they keep going to nene

is he really the guy you want with the ball in the 4th?

yeah especially if Galllo keeps shooting from the arc and missing a lot no offense just an off night
there we go. Get to the hole Gallo!!
Well my roommate finally got off the TV.
And you're just in time!
there's 3 mins left of the game
Makes up for missing the first 45 minutes I suppose.
hopefully the Nuggets don't pull a Magic tonight...
haha just remembered that

blowing a 21 point lead and losing is brutal

"he'll only be on there a little while..."

Knew that was bullshit.

LOL.

You’re telling me. I mean I generally don’t mind because he’s a cool guy and he always asks, but the way he put it he wasn’t going to be THAT long.

up up down down left right left right

Scores!

cheats for grand theft auto haha jk
actually it's the old school Konomi code for Contra 30 lives!
old as dump haha jk but really older than I am
Okay guys, stop it. It's not funny anymore
I like how Gallo has become the point guard

And the game plan is to get him to the line.

yup

what they should have been doing for the last 5 minutes

He's 6'10"

could shoot, dribble, drive, is smart as heck, very special player

Jim Tracy, is that you?
Lol
I'm glad someone got that....

I felt alone in the wilderness

I don't follow the rockies that much to understand it
It's a joke about Jim Tracy

He says in just about every interview about most players that they are very special or very very special.

This is like having breafast with

burnt toast

Well at least you can

scrape the carbon off the toast and still eat it.

yeah Cat

welcome to my life

exactly

scrape the birdman off of denver and voila!

ouch but lol
Well I didn't mean that exactly....
Why are people leaving? No seriously
SAW That too I would give me left nut to watch live nuggets games
Man....I could see if we were up by 20

but sheesh

COMBAT CHUK

GET OVER TO THE OKC BLOG AND SPREAD YOUR ANTI-GOODLUCK BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

hahahaha

Isn’t the OKC SBnation like dead?

Go to the ESPN blog.
It does not matter

You must go and spread it, spread it like butter on toast.

LIke butter on burnt toast!
I remember last year...

their guy would write these great posts and get pretty much no responses. During the playoffs.

I felt bad for them
I felt bad for the author for sure. Dogbert I think was his tag.
AL!
Its OVA!

we win

got that vince carter gif? its ova its ova
Imma be interning with Chesapeake energy this summer (Chesapeake funder the thunders stadium so nugs better beat that ass this year
Think it's safe to say they salvaged this one.
HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!
I thought they were just joking around with each other at first

And then it all went to hell in a hurry.

Oh, Kleiza, why? :(
Whoa Al and Kleiza fighting????

Why?

Woah...easy fellas. We don't need any suspensions....
Fuck You Kleiza!
no respect for the trolling kleiza
Kleiza why you be trolling?
crowd yelling

“you suuuuck kleiza!”

Oh no..

I hope that Harrington does not get suspended. He must of said something really offensive.

I mean Linas should of said something really offensive.
Karl should get Al out of there, now
karls face says it all

where have I seen this before?

Should have been a foul...

Rudy trying to break it up.
The refs let it go on too long to begin with…

got shoved like a sack of potatoes hahaha
kleiza

look like hitman for KGB. a fat one

Rudy F.-->Human Wrecking Ball!
Hey Kleiza

You went 1/7, on a franchise that’s a laughing stock of the NBA, and just lost by 15.

Great job!

don't see what started that mess

AL is very pissed regardless….Kleiza must have said he hates cheeseburgers or something..

Nene should hold al down, not rudy.
Why doesn't GK just sit Harrington?

The games over

I can't fathom what the hell Kleiza said to set Al off like that.
Whats up with Hess hair hahaha

Chris Marlowe: “There isn’t any past history or rivalry between the Raptors and Nuggets, but they do have 3 former Nuggets on the team.”

random fact of the year:

james johnson is a black belt in karate

I chuckled at that
It sounds like something Seth at P&T would write

during a “meet the (opposing team)!” section of his pre-game reconnaissance

Ironically

Kleiza is easily the biggest douche of any denver sports guy I’ve ever met

Nothing ironic about that.
Ironic

Because he’s a shit player so you’d hope that’d make him more humble than other pro athletes

Game feels like it got pretty chippy in the second.
Damn Al is fired up
got hit in face by K on shot
nene gets a T too?
Wait, why a tech on Nene too? WTF?
big man looked too threatening

i guess

It's the ChiaPoof
Basketball reasons?
Well...this is one way to draw out the end of a game.
Kleiza gets boo'd
I do like the Toronto announcers...
Time at the Pepsi center is never wasted muahhhh
Do we play them again this year?
was andrea there with the team?
Andre? I didn't see him
yeah I thought gallo woulda said what up to him at the end countrymen and what not
Yeah true that
He had dinner with him the night before according to his twitter
Well that was an ugly end to an ugly win.

But a win is a win. YAY TEAM!!

Dammit, that was a lot closer than it should have been.

Still, a win is a win amirite,

Good game Nuggets...

good fun with The Stiffs

We win, but still with what happened in the game....

TEN!!!!!!!!!!!
I'mma rec that for Tenage!!
If Harrington is suspended

It will be a 4-5 game suspension I think.

One game I would think tops
I thought it was just shoving.

Would he really get 5 games for shoving someone?

his own teammate no less haha RUDY
If you instigate a brawl

You get suspended.

It was equally instigated

and it wasn’t a brawl. It was brouhaha, a melee if you will. Mostly a milling about.

I can't imagine why he would

Ujiri would have a tizzy fit and protest that immediately

The mental image...

of Ujiri throwing a tizzy fit is awesome

After seeing him in The Association

I can kind of picture it.

if Ujiri has to get involved

we’ll be good. he’ll probably get us a pick out of it.

That's hilarious! reccin' dis
I'd say 1-3

Probably not more than that, once they review the tapes.

doubt there will be suspensions if Al wasn't ejected

Wakeup call game for Nuggs though, they though they had it in the bag early in the 3rd and were settling for bad shots, plus they started making a few. They have to keep working from the paint to set up the outside shots.

Winner winner chicken dinner!
Winner winner cold nasty moldy chicken dinner

for that ending.

It still fills up the win column.

Ill take all the dirty, crappy, moldy wins we can get. :)

Yes I want more but I’ll take what we can get.

Looks like Phx is going down to Portland but

go Warriors!

Fight!! Kick his ass!

My wife called just as they started jawing at each other. I’m going to have to wait for youtube now. Probably started with Al saying “what’s up with that 80’s flat top haircut, you dork!”

with linus replying least I dont have wierd ass grooves down the top of my head
Al: "Yeah, that's nothing compared to yo' mama's grooves!"

(not sure what that means, but yo’ mama gets ’em every time).

Oh my...
I guess that sounds worse than I thought when I typed it.

No wonder they started fighting.

still don't get how Neñe was shooting FT's after he should have been ejected!

Job well done refs!

I hope Nate Robinson and Klay Thompson play at an all star level tonight haha
No way

Harrington gets suspended. No way.

Kleiza was clearly the instigator.

Especially with the push to Al's head after the shot
good thing they won tonight

Or you would have got sick again and let us remember this loss until after the all-star break ;)

Ha ha

Nah. I never really had a doubt about the outcome. I was bored during the third quarter, too. Catching up on e-mail, posting here, juggling my fantasy roster, etc.

Really happy, actually, with how Denver got serious at the end, played defense, took it inside, got to the line and won by 15 points.

Sure, it should have been 25 or 30. But. Whatever.

But you threatened to throw things ......
Break things.

But there was throwing, too.

I wasn’t really that upset. More making a caricature of myself.

Hyperbole!
I love hyperbole!

It is the greatest thing EVER!

and I'm spent...

pulls up pants, walks out of room

Uh oh postings look weird

I wonder if SBNation is gonna barf again

No, I think he tried to use asterisks.
I hate that

I don’t know what to use when I am trying to communicate an action here.

Two T's

Mean you are ejected. Nene (the accent is over the final ‘e’, not the ‘n’, btw) did get a technical earlier.

I was expecting him to be ejected as well. Maybe the double T isn’t counted? Unsure.

I think some of these might be rescinded
I think so, too
That was a total ref fail, which has to be considered by the league

The Toronto feed showed them talking for at least 20 seconds before pushing started. The Toronto guys were like "where were the refs?’

Too bad the Avs guy wasn’t calling the game to declare that Al decidedly and unequivocally kicked Kleiza’s butt while lauging maniacally.

Can't wait to hear how our Stiff Overlords

describe the brouhaha.

i doubt the refs cared

they just wanted to finish and get everyone out. figuring out Nene’s freethrows while being tossed out woudl’ve just prolonged the game

must have missed the first T

Thought it may be a defensive 3 sec T or something, those don’t count toward individuals do they?

No

It was a double tech. Got tangled up with some Raptor, though for a second it looked like Nene had his arms at the guy’s throat. Just for a second.

ANYWAYS

Golden State holding their own against OKC

Watcha guys points in fantasy

Im at 182.75, still got Crawford, Matthews and Durant

You know what I have :)
I'm at

170.5 but I have 132 play minutes left.

wow u gotta good chance
Meh

I picked Jeremy friggin Lin on my team and he didn’t play. I guess that is what you get when you pay the big bucks for the all-stars.

What is Al wearing...
Kleiza's skin?
KLeiza's scrotum as a Bowler Hat!
ewwwwwww...
that's the second "ewwww" from you tonight!

are you genuinely offended or are you ewww’ing in jest?

I'm not offended, just grossed out
x

Eh? Being grossed out is not the same as being offended....

I don’t get it :(

being gross is the joke not being offensive

nevermind…….. GAWD!

I'm so confused lol
I feel so bad for Steve Nash

He deserves so much better than what he’s surrounded with in Phoenix.

I don't

he knew what he was signing up for with Robert Sarver

a buddy of mine flew up to Steve Nash's house in Canada last week

had to scan some of his childhood photos for a commercial they’re making… weird thing is that since Steve wasn’t gonna be there his MOM was gonna meet my friend!

of course we started razzing him about how he should make sure not to sleep with Steve Nash's Mom!

He’d then tell Steve Nash, “I’m your new daddy!” lol

(had to be there?)

And Kleiza shoved you?
whaaaa?

Holy

Giant Picture Batman

You see you were trash talking and Kleiza got mad and oh never mind
oh right, my friend being "Kleiza" in this example.

Yeah that one was JUUUUUUUST OUTSIDE!

Phx getting outscored 2:1. Epic thumping.
Weird thing is they were up 24-21 after the 1st quarter.
Golden State playing pretty bad

Oh well.

Still only down 5
Make that 3
Yeah

I take it back. OKC hanging tough, though. Might be a good game.

Kinda mad. I wanted to put on a movie and pass out.

Gallo went to the line with 18

And I thought come on, get to 20. Then I realized that is possibly the first time I have thought about individual stats in game this year. I used to track individual stats obsessively.

Fans doing this is fine

Players, not so much.

So we getting a recap for this or what?
I think all the Stiffy Overlords are at the game.
I want a recap and I want it NOW!

she was a bad egg
grunkla-lunka dinkity didient

just don’t ask for the secret ingredient

Well... big al would have trashed linas.. just sayin
exerpt from rudy interview

Carlos Pardo Hdez @CarlosPH24
Rudy, ¿cómo es la vida en Denver? ¿Cómo residencia la prefieres a Portland? Sigue así crack! @marca #AllStarMARCA

Gracias Carlos, por tu cariño y tus ánimos. Me gusta mucho más Denver. El clima es mejor el de Denver que el de Portland.

yay! He likes the weather in Denver much better than Portlan

BIG STRETCH

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