Denver Stiffs

That's the thing with Gallo

He’s not super consistent. He has a bad night for every three good ones. But he always seems to come back with a great game the next night.

I don’t expect to see Gallo take any more shots. When it wasn’t falling for him in Philly, he just passed the ball to the hot hand, which was Andre Miller.

Nothing to be concerned about.

i think

he should just drive on his off nights looking to pass, he was a PG growing up and it sorta shows sometimes??

At least he does other things when not playing well on the O

Like grab boards dish out dimes and play defense

he should take many more shots

just not jump shots

Yes, I would like to see him start driving the lane. He's settling.

He had Gasol on him on the perimeter and opted for the easy fadeaway … gotta keep on the hustle to the paint!

Nate Timmons - January 31, 2012 reply

did anyone send

Perkins a care package after last night??

Trader Joes...

Dumb or stupid?

Discuss.

Not as bad as plumber Joe

Ha

I remember when that was a thing.

wonder why we don't see a lot of screen/rolls with gallo?

he has the size, handle and shooting ability that it should be a lethal tool

too open for nene

Poor Mozzy can't stay on the floor tonight...

these Grizzlies announcers

need to talk into the microphone, they’re having some audio problems

Sounds like the HIgh School Game of the Week

Ha!

I think it's an NBA TV thing

every game they broadcast has weird sound issues

Maybe it's their accents?

gallo's starting to piss me off

even me

rudy has been taking away the drive

he’s been daring gallo to take those long 2’s, and he is

Gallo's starting tio get no respect on the outside shot

Why should he if he’s 31% from three?

how bout a half-decent offensive possession here?

nope

Or not

Lawson not playing well

Dear God,

Make Ty Lawson 3 inches taller.

No one can make anything

Maybe the refs can check the rims, I bet they’re oval

Something's changed

This is one game where Karl would be wise to go deep on his bench

Need some energy, Manimal style…

AAA and Gallo Just Don't have it tonight. . adjust!

i want Al H. and dre

Al loves playin with dre

Sluggish start, but at least GK called the TO

Nene is looking soooo strong tonight

nene in the post has been working

also, nene has been WORKING in the post

FINALLY!

Only took 3 minutes from the last time we got a FG…

Wow Mozzy!!!

MOZBLOCK

Nice D by Mozgov

Its a must we keep feeding him minutes for his defensove [presence

MOZSWAT!

speights has no business against nene

That is a terribad call on Mozgov there

Yes it is

BEAUTIFUL flop!

Too bad it was the other team pulling it…

Gallo Scores from the floor!

Mike Conley Jr. with the shot

since it’s an Olympic year, I remember when his dad was a track star for the U.S.

He makes me remember when Oden didn't suck.

He makes me remember when Oden wasn't old

He was only like 40 then.

GALLO MADE A SHOT!!!

STOP THE PRESSES!~!!!

That was a terrible shot Gallo but it went in so yay

yeah gallo

Mozzy 5

OMG!!! WTF Refs!

whistle 5 seconds late

Poor Mozzy.

Poor Nene being asked to play C the rest of the game...

…why not bring in Kouf?

Good question

Why ask why?

GK.

Practice??? Practice??

that ball is full of lies

Can we trade these refs for a ham sandwich?

I wouldn't give up a meal for them

gallo stop shooting jumpers

This is such a sloppy game :p

Whoa!

I walked down to the LQ and the Nuggets lead disappears like that. What the hell?

Gallo misses another shot. Ugh.

Whoo GO AAA!

beeeeautiful

Miller

Just setting up easy buckets like no one else on the team

4 on Nene

maybs faried

He's gonna be starting over Nene

By the trade deadline. :\

buckets and dre will bail us out

KOUF the DOUF is in!

K2 sighting!

Time for K2 to step up.

On D at least

Al Buckets!

burger/buckets

BUCKETS TREY!!!

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Our bench is killing it tonight

Nice shot Al, I love $5 shoes!

Buckets and Dre man...

the geriatrics love the road

Hey when you're old you don't want to

party on the road. It’s early bird dinners and bed by 9

good d k2 , ah well

Al is on FIYAH!!!

Hamburgler

veggie burger again for 3...

RAINING BUCKETS!

miller and buckets restoring order

Buckets said

Let me try that again

Burger partay on AL!

Crisse_molle_ti_senti - January 31, 2012 reply

TY big AL

Memphis announcers

Pretty high on the Nuggets.

One tries to be fair, reins in the other one.

OT

Did I miss anything fun in the first half thread?

Depends on what you mean by "fun"

Anything interesting is fun for me.

Depends on what you mean by "interesting"

probably want to read it tomorrow then.

Cat tried to spread the "X is really starting to annoy me" meme from PurpleRow...

I only said one thing.

I'm starting to annoy you?

So sorry.

What?

buckets has highs and lows just like Gallo. It’s weird that his lows seem to last a lot shorter than Gallo’s typically…

He's a veteran

And I assume we aren’t considering last season either.

yes I meant typically as in this season LOL. important distinction

Miller +17, Al +14, Brewer +9

Lawson -8, Mozgov -4, Nene -2

Oh, you.

VicLombardi Vic Lombardi
Gallo can’t hit the broad side of a villa right now.

Sounds about right

I missed most of the first half, but the few shots I saw were turb.

Lombardi is a goofy one

he doesn’t take criticism well

Buckets heard

we’re getting in-n-out

that's thursday

tonight’s BBQ

give it to gallo

and for every jumper he takes make him do a body shot off of scott hastings after the game

I just threw up in my mouth....

nice between the legs save, Al

twmhs?

Dre and Al will save us

some rudy and brew would be nice

that was dumb

you have to be looking outlet ughhh

I GOT IT

yelled Al.

Man Al got that up quick

solid move

Buckets with a reverse?!?

How they looking tonight?

I’m new to the Stiffs, but avid PurpleRow user.

Chain it up, brother

Kind of sloppy, but we’re ahead.

bad

but winning

Hey Mohr! Welcome!

Hey! Thought I'd see some familiar faces here..

Purple Row huh?

Is that a Vikings blog?

grrrrr

HA!

I just got here, I don't wanna fight ;)

There are many baseball haterz here

And some that like it. Don’t let em get to you

Oh I'm just messing around!

Welcome!

Lakers blog?

(runs from furious Cat)

Oh, now you’ve gone too far.

/stinkeye's Phil

Make that _two_ furious Cats

…we’re both Rockies fans from that blog

The more cats the merrier!

MEOW!

RUN. FAST.

Yikes.

So what are my offers for a Joe Mikulik bobblehead?

Oh, AAA

You’re not MJ.

Koufos should just shave his head

Can't stop playing just because you thought you were fouled, Kouf

Koufos just wants to be Greek

so he can date Greek girls

At least our bench is better than theirs

and our dads

Wish Al wouldnt force as much at times

lucky grizz are ice cold in shooting

only reason we’re still in the game

that was pretty ball movement

albeit for the wrong team

Wasn't Dre fouled on that steal?

dont think so

Common Man

Dont pass it to Miller in the post when hes double teames

When did 'come on' become 'common'?

awful turnovers

FFS take care of the ball

Man...how many times can we have the ball punched away from behind?

happens every time you dribble aimlessly in the lane

Nice uncalled over-the-back after the miss, guys!

That too

Time out would probably be a good thing now

Karl

Call a timeout please.

No?

Glad they still took the momentum

Cant team rebound with no bigs in the game

Ummm...Kouf is a seven-footer...

except for him :)

we looooook tireddddd

one blur PLEASE

Oh, how do you miss that layup?

I thought he was fouled...I could be wrong though

they're not calling fouls tonight

on either end

Just sloppy basketball

Dre was flying there. I thought he was fouled on the layup

Thank you Ty!!!

Ty 3!

Let's hope it _stays_ 3 when the next quarter starts...

Ty!!

big big shot by Ty

Ty !

Love seeing our cornerstone players hit the big shot

Ok thats ok

I’ll take up by 7 on the road against a decent team. Bend but dont break

give it to gallo

tell him to drive to the basket

Why so he can be punched in the face

not have it called and miss the basket?

duh!

relax

ron garretson has the night off

I'll call Karl right now to relay the message

How big was that 3 by Ty to close the third?

I'm gonna go with HUGE

How is that a shooting foul?

Dick'd

Miller for 3!!!!!!!!!

He chucks it from the hip lol

Dre Tre!

Oh Dre!

DREEEEE

How did Dre hit that?

He had a Grizzly in his grill!

Cause Dre is da man

REGGIE MILLER!

Boom Baby!!

Boom Baby!!

DRE!!!!!!

I laugh every time Andre hits a three.

yeah me too

He's gotta give that up to Ty

I love Dre's flat shot! keeps me on the edge of my seat

AAAARGH

STOP GETTING STRIPPED

Does Quincy spell his name

Pwndexter?

HA!

Oh another TO

I really wonder what's going on with the poke from behinds.

never seen this many before.

this color guy

is such a prototypical Southerner, I’ll bet he’s fixing to give me some grits for breakfast

I've never had grits

Aren’t they just corn meal?

I had them in Georgia once

I think they are cornmeal and oatmeal like substance

DRe!!

Errr how was that a foul?

Dear Nuggets...

Please hold a lead.

Thanks
Cat

Way to hedge Rudy

we are being out physicaled

Selby throws it to Lawrence

Lawson!

TY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blurrrrrrr!!!

Blurr'd

BLURRRRRRR

Love Ty

Nuggets missed him Sunday.

Buckets'd

Buckets!!!!

Run Run Run

YES TES YES

T = Y

take a drag or two

Kouf is definitely doing his part tonight on the D end...

Nice lob on the fast break to Harrington

lol Pondexter

Kept thinking pointdexter

hehe

good

we took advantage of the Grizz bench inexplicably not giving the ball to Gasol

Ty Lawson Beep-beep

Meep Meep!

dang, I suck at spelling cartoon character sounds!

lol

Roadrunners represent!

Sweet Hoops season now MHR buddy!!

that it is

I love my Broncos more than any other team, but basketball is good

Wear them out depth and speed

BLURRY!!!

Signs of a pretty good team shoot terrible TO too much and still win!

nice job finding our game for a minute

sometimes A+ nugz bball for one minute is alllll it takes

seems like a ton of miller's assist are to harrington

there’s an interview where al talks about how much he likes playin with dre

makes sense, he’s kinda too slow to play with ty

They are the keys to the second unit.

Al knows how to be seen

Which makes me wonder…. Maybe the difference in Al’s reemergence is the arrival of Miller?

And as you say that, Buckets benefits from Ty's presence instead :P

A boy can wonder.

And wander. Doesn’t mean I’m lost.

The thing is, he sets up easy shots

They are just swing pass assists. Its all in the details.

they aren't

Gasol is so much more beefier than Koufos

Buckets should teach K2 how to eat

Since Kouf has the vert of Mark Eaton even at this weight, you may be right...

Don't get lazy on D guys

BUCKETS!!!

Ty!

Al Buckets!

The Grizz are going to be dead here soon

Buckets!

Al Harrington

“Wrecking the Grizzlies”

Nice.

Beautiful look

Ty sees the double coming and knows exactly where it comes from

Buckington!!

Man...Al needs to step up on D

Has Al ever played any?

I'm not gonna bash on Al tonight

he’s kept us in the game

Stiffs are always critical.

It’s how we roll.

And Cat's always seeing the bright side of everything.

You should see her at PR.

A foul on Memphis really

Ty really hustled for teh O board

put gallo back in, give hime the ball, etc. etc...

Our Europeans are having off shooting nights

hahahaha I just thought of something that made me laugh

Hearing Andre Miller talk…

Good mins by Kufos

like seeing him get minutes

he can be a contributor on this team if given chance on nightly basis

Hustled boxed out

Can’t ask for anymore

I don't like this Nene-for-Kouf move...

Nene pass disagrees

Yeah, but he's not a center--why not put him in for someone else...

…maybe move Al to 3 and put Nene in at 4?

Especially since M. Gasol _is_ a real center, and both taller and stronger than Nene

Marc Gasol is a bigger man than Pau

just tuning in...

how are we looking?

grizzlies can't shoot

otherwise, we’d be in a foul mood

Great Cut!

we need to be the blue man group, and GET IN THE PAINT

++++ N to L

sneaky sneaky

Lawson.

the crowd is so alive in Memphis

#sarcasm

Dreeeeeee

We need more stiffs

with an exclamation point in their screen name.

God damn those half Japanese girls!

they do it to me every time!

oh the redhead said you shred the cello

and I’m jello, babayyyyy

and less ? haha

gallo back in ball give now

I am getting gray hair and sore knees watching al and dre haha

I had those before this gam :p

must have wisdom and respect!

Gasol is deceptively

quick

I totally see Moz like him.

Apparently the Nuggets are 12-2 against the Grizzlies since Jan. 1, 2008.

announcers for Memphis said “they play just enough defense” to get to there

too many 3's by us

GAWD....3pt'ers again

just like that it's a 5-point game smh

Miller right in Mayo's grill

And he knocked it down anyway

Not AAA...

Looks like the same bad line up that closed in the last game

Colsportsfan - January 31, 2012 via mobile reply

Okay stop screwing around guys

Damn Lawson

Are we seeing a 10-point lead going bye-bye again?

It's the Nuggets way apparently...

Colsportsfan - January 31, 2012 via mobile reply

suddenly they can't miss

Wheels falling off of this wagon

We're just to the lug nuts...we'll be fine

I approve of your screen name

Needs and exclamation point.

Co!mbatChuck?

Nah

¡CombatChuk

lol

It's Karls fault

Blame Karl!

dammit

memphis color commentator is fucking psychic

yeah they are actually kinda good announcers too

They're okay

They get more strips without ever getting a foul call

gallo, check in!

Yes!

Need more air balls!

Gallo

1-10, 8 PTS, 7 REB, 0 AST ouch

I'm not sure I approve of this

Let Miller run the offense

all of you have no faith

Not tonight

I'd be willing to let him shine in the 4th.

21 turnovers

all that keeping memhis alive

Line up should be Gallo, Nene, Ty, Dre, AL

Agreed

Gallo hasn’t had his touch, but I’d still rather have him closing the game.

Bah

I’m at least happy that this game is more half-court playoff style since Lawson isn’t at full speed yet, so its good practice for the half-court.

U gotta be able to excel at both

tHATS WHAT MAKES THE lAWSON – mILLER COMBINATION SO AWESOME

Let me guess

You look at your keyboard when you type?

Fouled?

Mugged, more like…

Finally a foul!

The game has slowed waaaaay down

Playing not to lose I fear

Please don't miss them Chia

Ah...the Nene who misses ft's. How I've missed you :p

Nene...

Free throw shooting expert

Colsportsfan - January 31, 2012 via mobile reply

It is hard for big men to shoot free throws

Bigger hands = smaller balls.

FINISH

jesus…

Phony Gwynn - January 31, 2012 reply

It is done?

Dre getting craftyish

Dre, you have to get those layups to drop...

GAH!

BAHHHH

ARGH!!!

sigh

put danilo gallinari

in the fucking game

Are you really 15?

He's sure acting like it...

I dunno....

right

cuz the its been going great lately with him on the bench…

I'm 17

wtf

we are trying to give it away Dre finish didn't get touched misswes two

WTF!

awful. Just awful

WHAT THE FUCK DRE

Dre misses two? WHY????

those could come back to haunt us

Dre

man.

Tony Allen

was as uncovered as Porn Star Gronk in the Broncos’ loss to the Pats :(

Nene is pretending to be birdman

Head fake, layup by Allen.

omg...

Oh dear,

Need Gallo

Thank you

Hope the rest of you are happy. Gallo is our star – needs to be out there regardless of his touch tonight

Need ~~Gallo~~ More Cowbell

what kind of defense was that???

It wasn't

Great defense

ha.

the Grizzlies are out executing the Nuggets horrendously

Well that was bad

Here we go again....

Colsportsfan - January 31, 2012 via mobile reply

We need to see that the refs are letting the hard screens happen and set some ourselves

vry true refs have let them play all night

wheels are off

make a play and they will go back on

How exactly is that not a charge

Gdamn

looks chargey to me

I was wondering this

only player we have who will get a call down the strech

it's your game Nuggies TAKE IT OVER

wow, whats up w/the last 2 games?

no closers

More like when the game's get physical, we're not stepping up

So

Denver needs not a closer, but a bruiser.

Where are you, K-Mart?

Well

Denver has Ty back. He’ll be the difference.

i hope so...

i went to the game against the clips and i was in shock… up the whole game and then cb1 kills us. :(

OMG! Panic

OMG! OK

And I don't get to watch the end...the disadvantages of late dinner

WHAAA???

I'm sorry

No other team has their best player on the bench at this point. NO OTHER

thank you

sir

memphis is also making some very dumb plays

Nuggets can still take this home.

if we don't lock this game down

guess what types of questions we start hearing again…

Dre!

Miller!

nice teamwork there

Dre!!!

Still Dre

Dre!

good ball movement

DRE!

Fuk wheres the interior defnse?

PnR Defense

sigh

Buckets woot!

Buckington

please D up!!

solid move to the hoop Al

Big Al! He's the man

Thank God they remembered to take it to the hole

dre gets a chance

for redemption!

Dre is pretty stealthy

The calming influence of Andre Miller

Lawson may be the future, but Miller is invaluable on this team

good things happen when you attack the rim

Alright Dre

We got this buddy.

Take it home.

time to redeem yourself, dre...

make these fts!!!

Going aggressive since the TO

please make

Now make your FT's!!!

I wonder if Harrington and Miller don't like eachother

They don’t like passing to each other.

I've not seen this

do something half crazy

reply fail

Miller will hit these both

Or I do something crazy. You choose.

your move sir

Do something crazy

and post on youtube

eat a ham sandwich with no ham

fuck

Post game we shall decide your fate

I do like nugsnazty's idea

ham sandwich with NO ham!

So..eat bread

how daring!

how about

peanut butter sandwich with no milk!

whewwww

Tony Allen with the putback :(

HTF does Tony Allen get the of reb in the paint?

Nene

Nene.

Anyone.

kinda sorta not really

damn!

an over and back?

what the crap

Over and back dammit

thats not over and back?

Tony Allen FUKIN TIPPED IT!

Bush League call

Sadly it was legit :(

oh fuck

TERRIBLE possession for Dre

Too much pride

Tony Allen puts his hands all over the guard and never gets called

So much fucking up

Wow.

Even the Memphis commentators weren’t convinced of that call.

Afflalo is a statue out there

fucking miller

get him out

miller is why we're still ahead

this

this x 10

Yes

But he’s not closing well.

1-4 from the FT line.

I want Gallo.

disagree

And you watching the game?

Or just mental?

How do you figure?

Really?

Um if the defender tips it out

You can go in the backcourt to get it back…

Hmmm good point

Jesus christ andre

Not an over and back.

Dre carried it

Hold it in.

did he have posession before he touche the back court

It looked like it on the replay

So soft out there with Al

And Dre

Dammit! Bench Gallo Now!!!

Oh wait, for some damn reason he IS on the bench! WTF!

Ref didn't make the call until crowd starting screaming about it

o man

is it a bad day, am i going to be a dick all day

Fuk

That is all

i feel sick

Damnit!

Gdamn

Interior defense is DOA

We gave this one away

Not over yet

Not over yet.

BOOM

HARRINGTON SAYS SIT DOWN MEMPHIS

Al!

Nice move Al!

BIG ALL HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRINGTON

Gracias Big Al

BIG BIG BIG AL!!!

BUCKINGTON!!!!

longest layup ever

LOL

MY BALLS ARE BOUNCING!

Naked jumping jacks?

Again?

Why can’t you just get drunk like a normal person?

What is normal when you’re drunk.

lol

AL

hmmmmmm

BUCKETS!!!

Get Gallo in there now

Defense!

Brewer too

felt like that ball bounced a 100x before going in

I swear time stopped

I never had any doubt it was going in.

Now play some fuckin defense!

should of been an and one

did that just happen?

we owe memphis an apology haha

I am so nervous for 10 seconds...OMG

this.

absolutely horrendous defense this quarter

just get one god damn stop

Please don't switch the PnR...Hedge and recover hard

suffering sciatica

this is what happens

when your best player sits the entire 4th quarter. game should of been over 5 minutes ago

I can't get over this fact

Steal the ball Denver

Make sure Mayo does not get the ball for 3

Consecutive TOs? Bold move.

Will they shoot a 3

im scurred

Again

damn foul shots!

Shit

What the fuck?

such. shit. defense.

Jeez he ran over two players

Why wasn't that a charge? Damnit hate the swallow whistles at the end of game thing

Thank you

cept when Chauncey falls

lol

that was a good play

by the grizz

5 seconds left

Still plenty of time to ice this game.

Why didn't they foul and send him to the line?

Ugh.

Let’s keep this going.

Tony Allen makes me want to cause harm

A dunk

great fucking defense

Wow. Is there any defensive presence in the paint

Fukin Tony Allen o_reb under the rim, no help defense. WTF?

Defensive Specialist My Ass

Oh

And this is gonna be fun.

that was far too easy

If they give Dre the final shot I will be furious

I can live with Dre, Buckets or Ty

prepare to be furious

lol

last shot?

nene i think

Go to...hell I don't know

buckets on a drive

That was a charge too

Give the ball.

TO TUCKER!!!

we better fucking win

And here....we....go.....

go to buckets

AGHHHHHHHHHHH

ugh

Phony Gwynn - January 31, 2012 reply

Last shot goes to Brewer!

Yes its crazy but I’m George karl

Miller actually

He tried to pass off but no one was open. Had a great look so cant complain

this

overtime in Memphis

I hate Karl

+1

DAMMIT

what a fucking collapse

yep

Good look...just didn't fall

Yep just bad bounce

Someday we'll get those rolls

Sigh

At least it's OT

OH THAT ALMOST WENT IN!!!!

did the ball just pop back out of the basket? wtf

pretty much

sadly, it did

Why? Why?

And here...we...

Let’s keep it rolling!!!

We are rolling

in the wrong direction

Doesn't matter.

Still rolling.

Rollin, rollin' , rollin'

Keep them Nuggies rollin’

Crisse_molle_ti_senti - January 31, 2012 reply

FUCK

Karl has no idea, NO IDEA, how to close a game

Guys Karl is a great coach and we are 14- 6 be positive

Tell 'em

I’m in charge here.

Already feels like a loss

it would be a miracle to have them win

How are we going to find the energy to win?

oh I don't know...

maybe bring in fresh legs off the bench… maybe some one who also just happened to sit out the entire 4th quarter?

Put Gallo in?

Oh wait, that’s just crazy. That’s what they want us to do…

That wasn't even a play

fuck man

Obviously Karl called a play to be run, Millertried to find a man, couldnt, then shot with a great look. Nothing wrong there

Karl almost always calls an isolation

And yes, of course it was a play. You need to learn how to comprehend hyperbole.

second game in a row, same crap.

FT shooting in the fourth is why we're in OT

George Karl again

lol

gallo's why we are

in OT ..ugh

he played shitty sometines the bench is a good thing

+!000000000000000000000 not Karl's fault

My face is flushed

I sure hope our players don't have the same attitude as you posters

Gallo has to play in OT

Japheth:the.other.kind.of.asian. - January 31, 2012 reply

yeah. cause hes suddenly going to shoot well. 1-10 from the field.

Thanks to your mentality, we lost the game.

Gallo had 8 points on 10 shots. That kind of “inefficiency” doesn’t mean you bench your player.

Should have won but in OT on the road

against a decent opponent. Let’s win it now.

Lawler's Law is still in play

get 100 points first and throw caution to the wind

I'm thinking Gallo might be injured?

¡silence!

Well that might account for why he's not playing

that's GK's only excuse at this point

Japheth:the.other.kind.of.asian. - January 31, 2012 reply

his excuse is gallos abysmal shooting.

lol start to OT

fuk damn shit fuk and ...damn

But seriously

Does AAA do anything anymore?

He has a back injury

His wallet is too heavy.

Great start

great start

First team to score 100 wins this.

chalupas!

it's the law :)

AAA D

Blurr'd

Yes AAA pokes it away!

propitious start to the extra session!

Great start!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Nugs!

why isnt gallo in there i kno he hasnt made anything but still

really AAA?

Affailo

no ball movement in the half court at all

oh afflalo…

andre miller is a ball hog

i wish karl would just sit him, and let a bigger and better-shooting guard actually play, one who might make good decisions and play defense too.

DeezNuggs - January 31, 2012 reply

Not sure if serious

Lol WTF does that mean.

Does no one watch the games anymore?

I'm confused that's for sure

He leads the team in assists

and has 20 points

nah, i'm just mad

at him for missing crucial free throws. holding the team together this game, but still coulda sealed the deal with this one.

DeezNuggs - January 31, 2012 reply

Well maybe you should just say that next time

hadn't looked at his stat sheet

shoulda done that sooner, maybe next time i won’t look like an idiot lol.

DeezNuggs - January 31, 2012 reply

He's a guard

They handle balls

We don't have a better shooting guard

Seems Legit

Nene stop fucking standing there

fouls

Really? Afflalo instead of Gallo????

woot

'DRE!!!!

DRE!!!!

nice control Andre!

Nene screen air drives me crazy

Ok. Al, make these!!!

Hit the FT's Al!

now make a fucking FT

nice spin

So gallo had a bad game, so what?

AAA has been horrible whole season. Put gallo in

Dre is hustling out there and Al is shaking and baking

Glad the Denver Nuggets are playing and not the Denver Stiffs.

hahaha indeed

True story

Hit your throws Al

do it for all the kids in the hood who buy your shoes at Payless

HAHAHA NICE

is gallo eating on the bench?

I'll bet he has some Sweet Tarts, those are yummy

actually he was laughing at GK's rotations

Way to drain em both Al!

Nene! with the D!!!!

Charge taken! Nene!!!!

oh yeah nene!

We got a call! We got a call!

Hellefreakinglluah

hell yea NENE!

thats 2 TOs created by AAA in OT

that’s why he’s in

way to stand there Nene!!!

#admitting hypocrisy

ballsy

If we win, IF

I dont know how I’ll feel

Happy, I guess

Looks like Karl is sticking with his

veterans over the youngins, I like it for this game.

NENERS!!

Gdamn Lawson

goddammit

Finish them please!

Ty rusty

Oh bad pass

FUK

FUCK

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Nuggets have 24 turnovers this game

theyre

killin me

how

do we screw that up

Dear God

Please make Ty Lawson 2 inches taller.

I want my mommy

ugh lawson getting blocked we have never seen that before

9 turnovers for miller-lawson

but still in the game!!

how did Rudy Gay out blur Ty?

It's like an alternate universe

I'm voting Ankle

That makes sense

You have to slow down to make a layup

count your blessings

Allen deflected it

Tony Allen gets away with soooooo much grabby grabby

un-fucking-real

sigh

This is so fun!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's the spirit!

It warms my basketball purist’s heart.

They are going to give it back to Memphis

like a funny ulcer

misplay

No way to prove Dre touched it

but seeing all replays have seemingly gone against the Nugs this year who know. OK it stood

whew!

We've been out-physicalled since the start of the fourth

whewwww

Grrrr Tony Allen

George Karl Marx - January 31, 2012 reply

oof

:/

if you're going to execute like that

why call timeouts?

They didn't call a TO

oh that's true

the refs were reviewing

How was that not a foul?

twas

a clean block imo

shot clock violation first

pretty clean block

some wrist action, but the hand was all ball.

I thought the wrist was the issue

Tony Allen

He’s everywhere!

Fuk Tony Allen

gallo in for ty plz

gallo in for ty plz

Gotta give it to Karl

He’s sitting the starters who didnt get it done this game. Whether thats bad or good is debatable

whats the review for?

possession

its a game review

not wilson chandler’s arrest record

to see if there's time on the clock after it went out of bounds

we had the game

just execute a fast break and we are up 6. this team has completely shit themselves down the stretch.

Gallo in for AAA

cool i have 4 minutes left at this damn PC room

HURRY THE F UP

.3 on the shot clock

Memphis ball? Why do they have replays? Why?

Grab the fucking rebound!!!!

Missed!!

Oops

GET A FUCKING REBOUND

this is ridiculous

I hate life

can we get a fucking rebound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF

How many GDAMN o_rebounds are we gonna give up?

GDAMN

Horrible defense and no calls from the refs

Ugh.

Dammit

Yup. That pretty much sums up this shit-eating game

Phony Gwynn - January 31, 2012 reply

fucking AWFUL

wow fuck karls small line ups

"Going with the hot hand"

Stupid

me stupid?

No.

Sorry, Karl’s rationale was stupid. You are correct.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Did Mozgov foul out???????

no...he has 5

no he has 5

fitting

we deserve to lose

this is disgusting

Tony Allen is just pushing us around right now

I cant take this

Heh.

2nd game SAME SHIT

We are getting so out toughed not the coaches fault pussies vs warriors

It seemed like there might ought have been a foul or two there

they've let it go all game, so gonna be even more stuff at the end.

just the way the NBA works…and I hate it

Oh I know

Honestly

WTF doesnt Karl put Mozgov back in? Were getting killed on the glass from the 4Q on

nene got raked in the face

Nene

pussy shit right there

Great, brutal Feb schedule after two choke jobs

looks promising

think all of allens rebounds in 4th qtr and ot

9 seconds on the shot clock...

fouls everywhere

cry or man up our choice brought a dress to a street fight

Can we not get into the paint anymore?

arrrrrgh!

Ballgame :-(

WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING

gotta foul now

screw that

I hate everything

I’m about to break something

great aaa

just fucking GREAT

AFFAILO

Bad fukin pass FUK

bad pass

BAD PASS

Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn

Japheth:the.other.kind.of.asian. - January 31, 2012 reply

thats the game folks

Hey, AAA, you've earned that contract....

turrible. just turrible.

I want all AAA defenders to please explain to me how he still deserves extended minutes

Come now. I remember each of you!

Um...

He defended Koby real well last season.

To be fair he did this season as well.

And he had 19 points in Portland…and….

We gotta get some monies worth

Harrington played terrible all last year

and you act as if you told peop

nevermind

I don’t even know what I wanted to write lol

I remember that Golden Nugget guy was saying Lawson was the future of this team

and everyone laughed at him.

I remember that, too.

I wasn't trigger happy to amnesty Al, and I will hold to that.

AAA needs ride some pine and get himself in gear. Dude obviously did jack over the lockout, and I don’t care what he said on twitter.

Agree

I think he needs a wake up call, but he’ll be alright eventually

HOW THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN

is it really a mystery?

If Gallo had been in this game in the fourth, you're right that there wouldn't have been OT...

…and dead wrong about why

Rebounding

Clutch free throw shooting, AAA folding

clearly you didn't watch the knicks or raptors game

well...

look at that line-up puts out there.

AAA, Nene, Miller, Lawson, Harrington

A freaking 3 guard line-up + AAA who hasn’t done anything this season

Testicles.

The good news is

My level 12 hunter just killed a clan of harpys and got a Barbaric Battle Axe of The Wolf 53-81 damage

that is good news!

21.8 damage per second.

Awesome for 12 level gold farmer.

2 games in arow we cant close shit out

and both times, who was the ball not given to?

was it:
a)Al Harrington
b) AAA
or
c) Gallo?

AAA being out there is a mystery

AAA is a BUST!!!!

worst 4 letter word in sports SOFT

or SOPA

which could destroy our blog ..

ACTA is just as scary

two 7 footers who are on the bench.

NIce!!!

Gallo must be hurt

Guys played 24 MIN all game

Dog house he would be in mine as well. and I coached 25 years

So you will punish a guy for having a bad game?

Not taking bad shots, not forcing, playing within the offense, helping the team in other ways just not hitting shots. Isn’t the rule that shooters shoot? I know Karl knows more than me, and I am sure you do too. But at the end of the day this is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

brettden - January 31, 2012 reply

That's what I'm thinking

Its not over

but the Nuggets looked like they gave up a long time ago

why are we playing like such pussies? SO SOFT.

if we hit fts down the stretch we win

if we play a shred of defense in the 4th we win. If we execute a routine fast break we win. If we get a rebound or two we win. total implosion.

I'll say it again: best player should be on the court regardless

1. Gallo is a fine defender
2. Gallo hasn’t been shooting well and has limited his shots accordingly
3. A player like Gallo shifts the attention of the defense every time
4. Gallo can still penetrate and has been money on his FT’s
5. Gallo knows how to contribute without out shooting

if tonight was the end of the season yes

Also a THREE GUARD line-up

should never close out a freaking game

Amen. But no matter how many times his idiotic small ball line ups fail he refuses to acknowledge it and do anything different. He’ll just keep doing it.

There is a reason this guy has never won a championship and if the front office is smart, they’ll send him packing.

Geez! How hard is it to foul?

C'mon Conley, miss these!

This was on GK AGAIN!!!

What is this F-ckn lineup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pray for double overtime

namyohorengekyo

we didn't foul Gasol...

we didn’t foul Gasol

He make them both we still just nee a three

Oh I know

Let’s have Big Al get blocked

hell of a way to end the game that's for sure

What the hell are 3 guards doing in there – no rebounds – no nothing WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuk

Fuk
Fuk
Fuk
Fuk

Can we make a 3 in 8 seconds?

probably just turn it over again

8 seconds is an eternity

They earned this loss

fucking disgraceful

Bring Brewer in!!!!

I'm nervous we won't even get a shot set up

Our “Draw up plays” in the final seconds these years have sucked serious ass.

This

Please make a 3!!!

i want harrington to have this shot

WHAT IS THIS LINEUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Effing a cotton

UI wanna kill my computer

fuck everything

Good look again.

sigh

Yup

embarrassing

THANKS GK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See you Thursday in LA

Well that is a tough loss

Meh, we were due.

Oh I agree

But we could have won it…

for two in a row?

bad news

these types of losses give other teams confidence, makes it harder to close out.

brettden - January 31, 2012 reply

Yes.

We haven’t had a 2 game losing streak as long as I can remember.

You have to go back a whole of 16 games

That’s a whole NFL season there!!

Fukin Fernandez

It was a good look...just couldn't make it

We had two closers and traded them both.

Whatchagonna do?

Yep.

We got killed in that trade.

You're right

we could have a team without Melo and Gallo right now, that would have been much better

Or without Gallo and Chauncey

Yes, even better

without Gallo, Chauncey and Melo. We’d be great!

We could still get rid of some players and get dwight howard, kevin garnet and andrew bynum

we will start those three guys, mozgov and lawson.

Reality

I would like you to meet it

and maybe lebron too

South Beach!!

that's a shame

sorry guys, thanks for having me good night

See you again soon

I still don't get Karl's reason for this line-up

we need a freaking 7 footer in there, AAA should be on the bench, and Miller should stop with this half ass ISO shit

Listen to 950 am to find out

George Karl always does a post game interview.

how depressing

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS SHIT. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS TEAM. WE ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS.

no we are not

you may be right

yes we are...

just a bad game its a shame we had it in the bag

While I hope he's not actually injured...

It is the ONLY thing to justify Karl’s calls tonight

Aaaaaand sh*t has hit the fan.

This could be one fucking ugly month

Well it's technically still Jan ...soooo

It's February somewhere

many places actually

But not in the Nuggets universe yet

Well we have 4 guys who come from a country where it is right now

BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT

BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT

I never like George Karl

and I never fucking well. To bad the GM sign him to the billion year contract

Its too bad you dont fuck well bud

You’re really missing out

what a fucking collapse

I think collapse is kind of strong

you reply to every single post.

This was not a collapse

It was a long lingering disaster.

missed 7 free throws
7 of 23 from downtown

I forgot to mention the 24 turnovers

Gallo 1 for ten
Nene the invisible man of the 4th quarter.

No Moz or No Double K late in the game!

and the Nuggets go back to the drawing board…This team better learn to finish teams off or no playoffs!

fuck fuck fuck

Dunno what’s happening here.

PANIC!

InboundingLobPass - January 31, 2012 via mobile reply

This loss can be attributed to not being able to play physical with the Grizz

they pushed us around and since the refs weren’t calling it on either end, we should have realized it and stepped up. Instead, we let them. Settled for jump shots, didn’t box out strong, and didn’t respond on defense.

Good points all

truth

Fair

but what can you expect from two PG’s and AAA for the last twenty min. of play

I agree in principle,

but the main “culprit” for the Griz was not a big, but rather a 2 guard. Namely, Tony Allen. He’s the one who boxed out Nene, blocked Al, and harrassed both AAA and Dre into to’s.

even more truth

we can’t be a team that lets one of these tough guys muscle us from winning. We can’t.

True

agree

and sticking with 3 guards and harrington at the 4 did not help even a little bit.

They were stonger

because the line-up on the floor was less than 7 ft tall

There has to be a reason for this.

I don’t believe GK would not put bigs out there if he could.

Probably because they played soft in the trenches all game.

Koufos was great on Gasol

When a seven footer was in..we controlled the boards

But against Allen?

Koufos was guarding Gasol when he was in

Allen took over when our frontcourt was nene al and AAA

Up 10 in the fourth..outrebounding the Grizz

Went small…lost

there is a reason for this

Karl doesnt trust KK and Moz..no matter what they do

Moz was in foul trouble but at the end of the game, shit who cares.

Koufos

yeah, the tall one

It was when they pulled out an 11 point lead too

we can't

blame the lineup tonight as much as the Clippers game. What we saw there was Nene flinging his arms around instead of securing a rebound. we saw tony allen being more physical than whoever it was out there, big or small.

Missed Fts

allowing Memphis to get into the lane at ease, stopped attacking-reason we lost.

I agree completely with the stopped attacking point. That really killed us. We looked intimidated, we backed down, and that always leads to an L

Tony Allen dominated

You’d mistake him for Dwight Howard if you didnt look hard enough. Fukin owned us in our own paint. Sad reb. and interior d. I blame this game mostly on that, and the starters playing like garbage. bench kept us in and leading most of the way.

Miller played a fine game

but when he’s PG we just have no real movement.

Thats bullshit

Hes the only player who gives us consistently easy looks on offense. Just because Gallo and Affailo cant hit a shot worth a damn, dont be blaming ing it on players who actually played very well

He did play good game

Doesn’t mean it translates to a good flow

Theres nothing wrong with the flow

lawson is push man and Miller is more half court. But Miller pushes all the time when its there leading the FB. Its bullshit to say that

Half court????

We have NEVER had a half-court game in any year Miller has been with us

Our starting lineup sucked

And when gallo/Mozzy out our interior defense sucks (not thats its great anyway). the o-rebounding murdered us.

we were outrebounding them till the last 5 min of 4th and OT

No 7 footers played those min

Seeing the 7 footers played a combined 20 minutes

there were plenty other minutes in which they didn’t play that went better

-this game was ugly all around

Just saying that Koufos looked great on Gasol when he was in..we got killed on the boards down the stretch and no adjustments were made..

Karl was outcoached tonight...

Plain n Simple

Let the kneejerks begin

I’m out. Two tough losses, but I remember we started the season 2-2 and then played some pretty great basketball.

I hope we can get some more execution and imagination in our half court game before playoffs.

Night kids.

The commentators in Spain have put this loss on Karl

They can´t understand his lineups and lack of substitutions down the stretch….hmmmm

Wells it's very obvious that the nuggets aren't elite, and they are soft

Doesn't have anything to do with being "elite"

It’s about coming in hot at the right time.

Um

And finding the hot hands and the lineups with the right chemistry is all about coaching.

And elite teams have it.

I’m a Karl fan. But these last two games have me questioning my faith.

I'm not talking about that.

I’m saying that the teams coming in hot tend to go far in the brackets.

Nuggets wont win in the playoffs without a halfcourt offense, they dont have one

They go off of fast breaks and playing fast… won’t work in grind it out playoff games

But our personnel can grind it out……

OK

I think the word missing here is “playoffs”.

Got you. And I agree with that.

Unless I’m wrong about “brackets” = “playoffs”.

Then I will feel pretty silly.

Doesn't matter if they come in hot at the right time, they won't be more physical teams

kmart will be sorely missed mostly because he is tough… those 2 offensive rebounds at the end by memphis? with kmart that wont happen

Look at Dallas last year.

They’re soft as f*ck (sans Chandler) and they rolled their way to the ship.

They closed games out

Not in Brandon Roy’s last stand.

ok ONE game.. thing is they had a closer we dont

Yeah, because of that they played with a fire under their bums and rolled with it.

Give up two 10-point

Fourth quarter leads, and I have to agree. Much as this pains me, because it shatters the faith that 5-0 road trip put in me.

Ugh.

i don't care who is out there

they played soft. No excuse for, center foward or guard, to play like they did. Looked like a bunch of losers out there in the 4th and OT, and guess what, they lost.

Time for Masai and Josh to make a move

Can’t trade Afflalo until March 1st

Why is that?

He just signed a contract

Still the same 'ole Post-Melo nuggets

We don’t have ANYONE to close out the game

Well hell what should they have done instead?

crap guys, the team is still building, the big flaw around Nugget land is that the good start has everyone thinking it should be champ or bust this year, not the case. A closer will come from this team eventually

The supposed closer (Gallo) sat out the entire 4th quarter and OT

Dre and Fernandez are players I do not want taking the last shot

Yesssir

Yes

Gallo not playing was curious, but I wouldn’t call him a closer yet

something was up w/ gallo tonight

so i’ll hold my judgment as to why he didn’t close for us. and I’m actually ok w/ Dre taking the last shot. He’s the only one that seems calm out there, plus his last shot in regulation was a good look.

dont need to make a move... just need to TOUGHEN UP(NENE)

Speaking of shattered faith...

Arron, where did you go?

This hurts.

Some players buckle..

last year he had no pressure, now he has to perform

That's a good point.

Completely agree

Agreed but...

What team will pick up that contract that he currently is not deserving of

A team with a ballhog that commands double teams

Since AAA can’t make a shot unless he’s completely wide open

It's unfair to only rip AAA

Nene didn’t make any turnovers in the 4th quarter but only because he played outside the paint and ran from the ball.

so true

That's same ole Nene

He’s been doing that for almost 10 years so that’s expected

It is

This is a team loss, but I’d rather have Dahntay Jones out there right now than AAA.

We’re playing 5-4 every game.

I liked how the memphis announcers were repeatedly rooting for AAA to get the ball

That was harsh IMO

LOL

I thought you weren't replying to my posts anymore

per yesterday.

No dumb dumb

I had to leave 2 nights ago because I had an exam.

I will still be here to laugh at you every chance I have. Don’t you worry.

lol

I'm asking you to stop.

Can dish it out but you can't take it, huh

Nope.

Sigh….

I've never seen Cat mean

Overly sensitive? sure.

But not mean.

You are good people Kevin. Don’t let Cat get you grumpy. She’s pretty small potatoes, really.

Agaric, you are good people and so is Kevin L

So I will stop for you two.

You have personally insulted me

for the past several game threads. I am asking you to stop doing that.

Get a room you two.

Don't

And it just got worse….

Making a joke

To diffuse the situation gets you nowhere sometimes.

I appreciate the effort, though.

LOL

Fix your rotations and get off denverstiffs. You have a team to coach.

It’s ok……

Womp womp

Don’t start shit.

The hell happened to stop……

word.

done.

as much as I love AAA

it was the truth

I think it's just kinda of sad

that the announcers were saying it the way they were

it's embarrassing

that’s what that is. Embarrassing. And Karl left him out there. I don’t think Karl is as much to blame tonight, but AAA needed to be parked on the bench. Why he sticks with players playing like ABSOLUTE shit like AAA tonight and Harrington last game is beyond my comprehension.

He benched Gallo tonight for his subpar performance

So this is a bit of a mystery.

But AAA does those little things. Like staying in basketball shape, hitting free throws, and not defending like prior years.

that's a good point

even more puzzling

We're assuming that's why he was benched.

We don’t really know

I think it was the chucking

JR would have got the same bench.

Hanslik was wondering about his back

Caught that too

BUT HE IS THE HEART AND SOUL OF THIS TEAM!

NO WAY MAN

HOW IS HE GOING TO GET BETTER IF WE TRADE HIM OR LET HIM SIT ON THE BENCH?

He's not the same, he got paid and now he plays like Masai ran over his puppy

I'm mocking all the AAA lovers who were calling me stupid

Only a couple days ago.

here we go...

meaning?

meant to reply to combat

everyone wants a trade lol

I don’t want a trade. I want a team coached by someone who doesn’t have his head perpetually up his derriere and who will admit his idiotic lineup philosophies don’t work and make a change.

Sorry, three-year contract. Talk to them again in 2015.

Forcefield time.

I'm glad that they lost

hopefully this serves as a wakeup call for GK to maybe take a look at his rotations, particularly his crunch time lineups. yeah its never good to put one in the L column but they will still make the playoffs and I’m not sure any progress would be made if they had won

You know what will make us tougher

MANIAMAL!!!!!!!!!

Nuggets need the emergency alert necklace

Because we have fallen……
And we can’t get up.

Nuggburg - January 31, 2012 via mobile reply

We're paying Gallo $10.5M/season for this shit. thats embarassing

Fukin terrible ass game

If your talking extensions.

At least target AAA.

Nene too

Exactly...

But in that game he has to be given the oppurtunity to try again. He is our best scorer, though he was playing like shit scorers score. He cant do shit sitting on the bench

THANK YOU

I said put Gallo in at the end of the 3rd and got yelled at….that’s why you put your best player on the floor people

Gallo had 1 bad game

and he can’t score in the clutch if he’s not on the floor in the clutch. did you somehow forget his last 5 games?

This is his fourth by my count

The first LA game, the Philly game… and one other.

But I’m not down on Gallo. Or AAA. Or Nene. Mostly Karl.

I meant since he signed the contract

although I guess that also disqualifies the last 4 games and makes it last 3 instead

I still think the need for a "closer" is mostly a myth

I think you just need to run your offense and get good shots. Problem is, we don’t have an offense, so combined with the lack of a go-to man late nobody knows what the fuck to do, and when a couple things go wrong everyone shits their pants and we have a game like this.

Exactly, Superstars and Closer are indeed overrated

A team like this can be very successful (and the Spurs come to mind), but it must be WELL coached. A 3 guard line-up, with a soft Big man (Nene) in the closing seconds will not win games. Got have right line-ups/ formulas at the right time.

And Nene's just going to get worse as he starts sulking because he's being asked to be a 5 again...

…right now I think it would have been better for both him and us if he hadn’t re-signed here, unless GK learns to use him as his 4 man…

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT LINEUP AT THE END!!!! SMALL BALL SUCKS GEORGE – GET A F’N CLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Griz – 3 rebounds before making a 3 to take the final lead – why? 3 f’n GUARDS – ARGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID STUPID STUPID

Karl Still Coaching Like This is a 82 Game Schedule

His tight rotations are running down this team and it shows when we have very little energy to end tight games. Supposedly, we are incredibly deep, but Karl sticks to his tight rotations no matter what. This would have been the perfect game to give Faried and Stone some run. The players seem really tired, banged up, and Karl sticks to his 7-8 man rotations. Really short-sighted if you ask me. We are going to need Chandler because our first 7 may not make it to the end of the season…

Enough with the faried talks hes not out there for a reason

Seriously...

if we wanted another big man out there, it should’ve been Mozzy

The way he was playing tonight, I would have gone with Kouf...

…same defensive intensity, more than 1 foul left on his clock

Karl Stubbornness?

Faried is the heart and soul of this team!

And what reason is that?

Because he is a rookie? Karl is a freaking jackass to not play the guy for just that reason alone. Is playing him for 10-15 mins gonna seriously kill this team? I mean come on

+1000

You know, Manimal is the all-time rebounder in college basketball history?? We need a guy that can go get the ball down the stretch vs. players who fumble the ball and tap at it…

Faried is our first round pick and has major talent and athleticism..

This is exactly what the Nuggs need on nights like this. . energy and athleticism…

Ya im sure? faried needs to develope before he gets a chance

Tell me how Faried's rebounding and energy would not have helped down the stretch...

The players seemed dead on their feet late in the game…imagine Miller lobbing to Manimal!

Those are valid points based on common sense, so you know George Karl isn’t going to do any of that. He’ll stick to his tight rotations and small ball philosophy even if it gets the Nuggets completely out of the playoffs. And then he’ll blame the players because nothing is ever Karl’s fault in his world.

This wasn't the players

Did you see them sitting on the bench during the OT timeout? AAA looked at GK like “you’re an idiot” – GAWD THIS WAS A LOSS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WIN. ARGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you guys INSANE!!!!!

One tough loss and you want to undo a trade that made the team younger, better, gave it more flexibility, upside, and two Knicks 1st round draft picks in 2014 and 2017. I’m not sure you guys deserve this team!

2017?

Meant 2016

2016

this guy has a point...

TRADE BACK WITH THE KNICKS!!!!

Ha ha.

No.

I’d rather be a struggling contender in the west than a sub .500 team in the east.

I agree with this

No need to panic yet, but the interior defense needs work. I would actually prefer if Faried got some burn even if he’s dead weight on offense. This small lineup shit wont get us far.

The MANIMAL is the answer

The team is missing Kenyon Martin. It was better with Nene at C and Martin at PF. Once Manimal is ready for minutes, he’ll give the team the rebounding, energy, and toughness it needs to win games like these. Karl probably just thinks he’s too raw at this point, but you have to give him minutes in the blowouts to develop him because they are going to need him (or someone like him). Mozgov is not good enough (yet?). Wilson Chandler might be of some help also.

We could have used Faried beast on the boards

We didnt need his offense with Miller, Al, and Nene./Lawson scoring

+1000

NO FAIR HE’S USING SENSE!!!

This team is FINE!!!! We need a leader with a brain in his head!!!!!

And then Karl needs to play said leader

No!! Karl needs to resign and we need to find a leader AKA - NEW COACH

Sloan?

oh I don't know... maybe Bill Laimbeer?

guy could slap some sense and toughness into this team, he’s currently an assistant for the t-wolves and has been looking for a head coaching job for a few years

He could toughen up Nene.

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

G.k. Is the worst in game coach in the NBA

Kroenke should fire him and not let him on the team plane. Leave his worthless ass there.

+1

THE ABSOLUTE F'N WORST!!!!

Finally someone with some clout on this site stepping up and throwing it out there

Were you here when his username was "karlsucks"?

clout?

on a blog?

Not sure about the worst

he did get outcoached by Del Negro

And this coming from you really means...well...nothing really

It was about time we heard the FireGK.com storm.

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Gee thanks

He doesn’t understand when to call timeouts and can’t play a good lineup.

You're welcome

not meaning to be harsh, but we all know how much you hate him so it just doesn’t really mean anything you would say “worst ever”

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

I considered moderating there

But my with my sn not an option.

i'm frustrated w/ GK too

but he is not the worst

I don't want to "rate" him -

I just want him gone.

and who in return?

sloan? jackson? don’t think they’re coming to Denver

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Sloan will be the next coach in denver

Perfect team for him.

would be great

but of all the teams to come out of retirement for, why denver?

We’re legit?

hey i'm a nuggets fan

and there’s no more legit team than ours, but in the grand scheme of things, there are other legit teams with higher prestige. i just don’t see a draw to Denver for high profile player or coaches.

See KS's post just below.

If you think there’s any other team Sloan might come back for, you’re gonna be disappointed unless you see him going to Indy. San Antonio’s his type of team, but Pop ain’t goin’ nowhere; NYK are not his sort of team.

yes, good point

higher profile markets w/o divas i suppose are ruled out. denver is not alone in the pool of mid-market solid teams that would be interested in a Sloan swap out though. I suppose of there’s anyone that could pull it off, it would be Masai, but i’m really not holding my breath that our FO is gonna get rid of GK, nor that Sloan is going to proactively pitch coming to Denver.

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Exactly the team he wants

No superstar ego. He was absolutely referencing Denver when he said he would come back for the right team.

One day

Not tonight.

I want to address this point of yours. Because it speaks VOLUMES about our differences in coaching philosophy.

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Sure

Would love to see you defend the six guard lineup.

Not the point I would make

More about managing players and egos. Something Karl is good at.

Sloan can handle the reality of the NBA, which is a player’s league. Coaches have such a small impact. This isn’t football, where it is about plays and execution. This is about teamwork and chemistry and egos. And Karl is better than Sloan in that department.

If the league were different, I’d be 100 percent behind you. But it’s not.

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Coaches matter a ton

See the pre Jackson lakers.

I'm frustrated

But I’m nowhere near being in the FIRE GK NOW camp.

It’s not like there is a coach out there available who is better.

Phil Jackson would be amazing.

But so would a trade of Birdman for Dwight Howard and a supermodel girlfriend who likes to cook and clean.

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Sloan wants to coach again

And this is his type of team. Jackson not a good fit.

This is a good point.

Jackson only wants allstars.

the Nuggets have one actually

his name is Danilo Gallinari and he can’t do shit for you or your team IF HE’S SITTING ON THE FUCKING BENCH

Not yet.

Ty is more an All Star

Than Danilo. And I am a huge Gallo fan. Despite his inconsistency.

I dont think any nuggets made the all-star roster but... ty is the closest

Yes

This was more my point

Karl has too much power!!!

He is an old school coach, thats why him and melo didnt get along. But we had an identity and no confusion in a game like tonight. Now Karl is able to run the team how HE wants it run with his hard headed mind boggling lineups. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt but the key is that we will win or die with Karl. Which really sucks!!!!

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Blaming the players as usual

For his mistakes. And the Karl implosion begins…

Karl interview on 950 am right now.

I'D THROW THE RADIO OUT THE WINDOW - I CAN'T LISTEN!!

Did anyone ELSE see the matchups at the end of the game?!?!??!

What A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE 5 to be out there at the end of this game based on who we were playing and what was needed…

karl said in post game interview

“Maybe I should have played Gallo more but I thought the team on the floor should have got the job done.”

they SHOULD have

but he left them out there waaaay too long and persisted with AAA when he was either anonymous or worse

What a dipshit

Seeing Dre and Fernandez take the last shots (4th and OT) did it for me

I don't mind Rudy taking that shot

he had a good look and it rimmed out.

i'm split on that

rudy’s been doing ok on that quick release the last few games, but he was already 0-3 on the night.

True..

You think

But gallo in the damn game

smh

and when they utterly failed to close out the game in regulation, maybe then it’s time to try something else?

Why is Andre Miller handling the ball so much

Did Karl forget that we have Ty Lawson on the team. Might want to remember that next time. Might get you a few more seconds to try and run a set offense…. oh wait, nevermind

Recovering from an ankle problem.

ty lawson didnt have a good game... he struggled all game if you didnt watch

He didnt handle the ball too much

Lawson is recovering from ankle problems and multiple Nuggets handle the ball regularly in a Karl offense. Miller is by far the best creator on the team, especially when Lawson cant draw double teams on paint drives because of his ankle.

I'll chalk this up to Ty recovering

But Ty’s speed creates more when healthy

Well it's too bad we lost tonight.

but I don’t think it’s going to be the end of our season. It’s 2 losses in a row. We’ve been through worse and survived.

Done for the night? I don’t blame you.

thursday is a must win

how so?

and tbf

every West team aside from the Thunder (who have some puzzling losses themselves) have had similar streaks so far. But this is still worrying.

The ball is round….

George,

Take your “small ball” and put it where the sun don’t shine… Oh – here’ George – “too many second shots” – WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! put 3 guards on the court and you’re not going to get defensive rebounds and they are going to get SECOND SHOTS. ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

smallball

It was a mistake to stay small on defense on that last possession in regulation, but in general it’s OK

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeexxxxxxxxaaaaaaaaaaccccccccctttttttttttttttlllllllyyyy!

my sentiment

mtnmagic that is, wayne is dead wrong

karl can’t continue to use the “too many second shots” excuse, when he has two 7 footers sitting on the bench.

7 footers

The problem is that Mozgov and Koufos aren’t productive enough to be out there. The small ball line up is the best line up. But on key defensive possessions (like the end of regulation and when they had 3 chances on OT) it was idiotic to go small.

Karl also said

“if we make free throws and don’t turn over the ball we will win the game.

If you want to say we need a go to guy for the end of games then I think that is irresponsible journalism"

LOL!

He's right about that

But he’s still culpable.

I’m still liking Karl more than I’m hating on him. But one of my gripes is the way he abdicates responsibility. It’s always the players. Just once I want him to man up and say, shit, I’m the coach, I’m the top dawg, and I blew it. Just once.

True true

right in the middle of Van Gundy and Karl would be a good coach attitude

Perhaps, he ought to have played 3 guards at once. You might sacrifice rebounding but with three capable ball handlers on the floor they wouldn’t turn the ball over…oh wait.

George Karl

This guy needs to go. Either have andre or ty in the lineup during crunch time, not both of them! I’m sick of watching this shit, but I will keep watchin cause I’m a die hard nuggets fan. Fire George Karl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dre's tall enough to play D on 2-guards--that's one of the reasons we traded for him.

I’m sure you think that with him out, AAA would slide to be a tall 2, but that’s not the way any coach in the NBA would play it

Oh - GK: "we had a great run in January"

You don’t need a “closer” when your team is GOOD enough to have a 10 point lead.

I almost forgot how aggressive game threads are sometimes lol.

The winning was a great force field.

Dare I say......JR Smith

Would be a great addition to this team

JR is smart and will probably stay FAR AWAY from George Karl

There’s an oxymoron somewhere there.

Yo CC

Exactly!

JR Smith is smart

don’t hear that one everyday. Maybe you are right, I don’t know him personally but I do have doubts there

hahahaha I typed that completely wrong

“If JR is smart he will probably stay FAR AWAY from George Karl”

Ah so he is coming back!!

jr. is smart? come on. that had to make you laugh just a little inside.

I thought J.R. was doing really well

at the end of last season. Of course his relationship with GK wasn’t getting any better but I don’t know the full story there so probably wouldn’t happen.

The talk of trading Wilson Chandler's rights should stop

I want to see him at SG with Afflalo on the bench

agreed

I agree

And I hate Chandler…but I’d like to see him get some minutes in AAA’s place.

We'd have to sign him to a deal.

Or a qualifying offer to get him to play with us. At this point I’m not sure he’d do either. If he doesn’t want to be here, no real reason for him to do so.

Nah he said on twitter he'd be abck with denver if that helps :)))))))))))))))))

Did he?

I missed that. Well that’s a different story, but of course it matters why he was saying that lol.

I'm beginning to lean this way myself.

My resistance to his coming back has to do with his pouting about coming off the bench. But that’s not a problem if he starts.

There’s no rule that says you can’t be an awesome defensive stopper and killer corner 3-point assassin off the bench….

that's what Bruce Bowen did

JR is NEVER COMING BACK HERE.

I’D LOVE IT!! – but GK burned that bridge when he blamed JR in the OK City playoffs – while GK played his small ball and blew it…

not to mention the best shot blocking sf this side of lbj

if AAA can't get it together in Feb

then yes

Chandler

I am a Knicks fan (and Denver fan). I know Wilson’s game well. He’s better than he played for you guys last year, but he has poor shot selection at times and can shoot you right out of a game with bad 3s etc… I was looking at his China stats the other day and even though he’s scoring etc.. he’s terrible from beyond the arc (something like mid 20%). So that part of his game has not improved since last year.

GK: he's being real snarky in his interview

He’s blaming it on second shots!?!?!?? – SMALL BALL MEANS YOU DON’T HAVE REBOUNDERS GEORGE. 1 + 1 = 2

ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown - January 31, 2012 reply

Always blames others for his mistakes

Sign of insecurity

Ha ha

Good point. I like small ball more than most stiffs. I can do the math and see the advantages speed brings. But it also kills when shots aren’t going in and you need rebounding. It’s just a matter of making adjustments.

ya, but it also kills on the defensive boards

And in OT, you can’t give up any second shots with the limited clock – so small ball is like suicide unless the other team is playing 3 guards too – which the Griz were NOT. Man, we should have won this game – EASILY too.

Of course

Small ball is good for building leads.

But there comes a time when you need to protect leads. And here GK and small ball fail.

See the last two game where Denver was up by 10 in the 4th and ended up with an L.

I am enjoying these kneejerks way too much to leave yet

We have 45 more games to figure out what clicks, we are 14-7, and AAA is probably going to the bench or traded soon.

Dear J-Ham,

get really good, really quick.

Chandlah.

I'm not sold that Chandler is a true 2 guard

But anyone but AAA. I’d even resign JR at this point and let him start.

Wil can play the 2.

chandler is a 3. can't match the speed of the best 2's

wilson is an excellent defender

what you really have to worry about is that he has no conscious on offense. he can be a little like “buckets”

If J-Ham does get good.

We won’t know it. He’ll be stuck at the end of GKs bench.

hahaha touché.

I think the loaded back court has something to do with that.

Well, I can only hope and pray that

J-Ham does become even a poor man’s Paul Pierce. I’m not going to make any more excuses for AAA at this point.

He doesn’t deserve anything so he has a fire under him now.

I'd argue

that we’ve had at least 5 or 6 blowouts so far this season. J-Ham’s entered the game once and Stone’s played in 4 games so far. I know they don’t play the same position but I doubt it’s that difficult to get him some minutes.

I agree that it is ridiculous to think the Nuggets are gonna spiral out of control

But the GK hate is no longer knee jerk

Anyone that has watched GK over the past few years

knows this isn’t “knee jerk”

I've Hated Karl

For a long while now

Anyone that knows the game...

has seen that GK is a screwup in many ways…

speaking of knee jerks

AAA isn’t going anywhere.

Ha. I've been on the anti-AAA bandwagon for the last 5-6 games

And I love that I’m converting some of you.

I can only hope that he either gets back to 2010 form, benched, or traded.

I think he'll get back to 2010 form,

but possibly not this year

You can forget a trade.

With that big fat contract and the way he’s playing we can only hope he gets out of that slump and starts balling again.

Hey KA

I’ve been on the “reality” wagon that AAA is average at best for 2 years and kept yelling that we needed to keep JR – but, we know AAA plays “George’s way” – JR doesn’t

Man, AAA was Mr. Dependable last year

Never anything flashy, but he played good defense, had his flashes on offense, and was one of those guys that really gave it his all.

His consistency is what he was signed for and what is he failing to produce.

The phrase “figure out what clicks” implies experimentation and a willingness to be flexible. Nothing we’ve seen out of George Karl suggests either of those things will happen.

He’ll play as much small ball as he can and waste his rookies on the bench.

Good point!

JR WOULD BE AWESOME -

BUT GK CAN’T STAND HIM, SO FORGET THAT – WE GET AAA AND HIS WEAK A$$ Game.

JR Smith

Best passer on this team

(dead serious. Actually awesome passer)

Nah

I’d take Rudy’s passes over JR’s.

I don't see JR ever playing here again

Hi SD

Calm me down tonight – and no, JR will never ever return here again – I just hope we get to enjoy him play somewhere in the NBA again.

He'll play in the NBA this year

He’s way too talented not to.

He's also a Sam-Cassell-level flake.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he has burnt-bridge problems in more than just Denver, Chicago and NO…

Agreed

Talent ≠ a good basketball career.

LOL.

Look, we should give Memphis some credit for making adjustments. We were flummoxed by our own mistakes IMO. That’s one area where Dre and Buckets being on the floor is a good thing (aside from his squabble last game). I think when we don’t get calls, we lose our focus. That is definitely something that needs to get better.

I think we are still going to be a – ok,

Ya...

We’ll be ok, but I will eat crow and say that we are much better than I thought we were going to be this year and with the possibility of going deeper in the playoffs, I just wish we could some changes in GK’s coaching style. We are getting to a point in the season where “experimenting” will become too difficult as the team chemistry is starting to solidify with who is getting the playing time. It is just frustrating – and this year, there aren’t any “villains” to blame some of the bad games on – this is a good group of players. The leader (GK) needs to lead.

Oh God!

When JR returns to Denver with another team he is liable to put of 50

JR!!!

Starting to worry about the AAA contract...

Well I couldn't stand Anthony Carter

and Karl didn’t budge, so he owes me one

I heard what really held up the Melo deal was

George didn’t want to trade Anthony Carter.

I wouldn't doubt it

Somebody has to throw passes to the fans

throw away WCF games ect

GK probably thought

the reason we even GOT to the WCF was because of AC.

I was kidding

Maybe I should have added LOL?

I got it

And laughed :)

I never understood why we overpaid for AAA

He’s had nice years, but has an extremly low ceiling

Exactly...

What was the market for him? We were bidding against ourselves!!!

Trade

I would give Afflalo and for Kmart and JR right now

Rockridge1 - January 31, 2012 reply

our 43 million man..... nuggets gm's lookin dumb on this one

The 2 PG lineup

It just drives me crazy. I love ty and dre but they shouldn’t both be out there in crunch time. I think you ride who is having the better game that night. I know gallo had an off game, but he should have been out there late in the fourth and overtime.

I dont mind the 2 guard lineup

Lawson has more of a scorers mentality and you have 2 creators in the back court. Its was our front line that got mauled and shit kicked in the endgame. Gay, Gasol and Tony allen playing inside did the bulk of damage. Although Lawson didnt play his best game, while Dre played very well, its ALL or mostly on the front court IMO.

Nene is so fuckin sft sometimes down low.

Mozgov played less than 10 MIN, and Gallo only 24 MIN. We had no front court to rebound

And if we'd put Mozzy back in there, he'd have played less than _11_ minutes instead.

The refs had a target on his back; if he’d gone in he’d have pulled a sixer

gallo had more rebounds than nene..... wowowow

Excellent point

With our small ass lineups late in games, we have trouble rebounding.

Shoulda played Faried

Sometime u have to sacrifice a little offense to not allow offense on the other side

OK...

…we were already under-sized, so you wanted to…
…go for undersized and inexperienced to boot?
No, what we needed was Kouf back in.

Maybe the question is

if we can count on Moz/Kouf to give us 48 minutes of reliable and consistent Center play.

Faried is the all time NCAA reb leader for a reason

he may only be 6’8, but hes athetic and has a great wingspan. He plays bigger than his height. Charles Barkley was a huge rebounder, and he way 6’5. Doesnt mean he cant own the boards

george wanted 2nd chances.

Maybe he should understand what players he has on the team

He's not 6'8"

And Nene isn’t 6’11".

Doesn’t really matter, though.

Faried is 6'5", too?

Well

I don’t really know for sure.

He’s no 6’ 8", though.

Depends on if his hair is up or down.

2 PG Lineup

It might work most nights in the regular season, but it’s not gonna fly in the playoffs.

I've been sayin this a long time

Case in point look at last year with felton and ty, it was great reg season but come playoffs that shit dont work

It can fly any time

But when the other team adjusts, Karl needs to. His problem is he doesn’t.

Exactly

Yes I actually like Lawson and Miller on the floor together

But I agree it can’t be over played

Adjusting

When the other team adjusts, Karl needs to take one of them out and put in a bigger guard.

YOU FORGET - AAA WAS OUT THERE WITH THEM - AND TY - WHAT A HORRIBLE...

TIME TO THROW HIM BACK INTO THE LINEUP!?!??!?!?! – He’s been hurt and on the bench – THEN PLAY HIM THE ENTIRE OT AND THE 4TH QUARTER?!?!?!?!? OH MAN… But I’m starting to calm down…. LOL

We don't hear you over the internet

it’s OK to type in lower case even when mad

I'm calming down... :)

WHERE IS THIS RULE???

I actually don't mind that Gallo was benched

I am a huge Gallo optimist and the dude’s chucking/decision making was inexcusable.

Sometimes you have to send a message.

disagree

I thought Gallo should have been out there. I don’t want to see Rudy Fernandez taking the last shot

Tonight, I wouldn't have wanted _Gallo_ taking the last shot.

He’s not Melo; he doesn’t shoot himself into games when his touch has been off all night.

Fernandez

Were you comfortable with him taking the last shot? I wasn’t

THis

He's just as good as anyone else on this team to take the last shot.

Meaning Nuggets don’t have a goto guy at the end of the game.

Gallo

Well I’m not getting down on Gallo because he had one bad game. I woild have liked to see him out there in crunch time.

Would

Four bad games

But I’m not getting down on him.

Knicks fans after the trade warned us of exactly this, he’d have some turb nights. And he has. But he’s also been amazing other nights. The nuggets knew the facts when they signed him. It was a good call.

Fine but he was in his very early 20's when he played for them

Not a single hall of famer could say they never had several off games in their early 20’s

Ha ha

Who said he’s a hall of famer?

Lots of good players are making Gallo’s money. Not many of them are going to end up in the hall of fame.

aaa for one

Ha ha.

He’s wrong. Just like he’s wrong about the Nuggets being “my team”.

Not my point

I’m saying EVERY player has off games, especially as their maturing and learning the game. It’s not like the Knicks fans had such valuable info when they said Gallo would struggle in some games…

OK.

Gotcha.

Miller did play from 8 MIN in the 3rd Q for the rest of the game

Without being taken out! I Luv Miller but thats a little long playing 25+ straight min including OT without rest

Well...

hopefully someone takes something away from this. For the players- show some pride. Don’t go out there, lose your aggression, back down when someone else starts showing some menace on the other team. For the coach- we have lots of players, use them. i don’t mind him going small (no, really), but leaving in the same lineup for most of the 4th quarter, especially when parts of it are not performing, just doesn’t make sense. And some of the lineups have been Don Nelsonian. Mix it up, we have the parts. The free throw shooting- well, that happens. But the rest of these can be fixed. And they have to really.

What this team does in LA on Thursday will be telling about the heart and toughness of this team early in the season. Not saying they have to win, but they have to play aggressive and give full effort and toughness for 48 minutes. They better bring it, even if they don’t come out on top.

Lol

Its true

some of the lineups have been Don Nelsonian

And I will say this because I am often an eater of crow

I hope AAA turns it around, has an incredibly solid season, and shuts me up.

I hope so too but...

I dont see that fire that I saw last year. But hey when your playing for a new contract I guess that all the motivation your need! Its going to a long year for AAA

this one wasn't all on g.k we DID play soft and we DID play sloppy,

but i am so tired of g.k. using the “too many second shots” excuse when he has three guards in the lineup, al at 4 and 2 GOOD 7 footers and an aggressive rebounder in the rookie at his disposal.

nobody in here can honestly say, based on what they have SEEN that small lineups are better than one with nene next to ANY of the aforementioned bigs.

great point

agreed completely

but g.k. refuses to be reactionary, even if it is the obvious move.

There are plenty of times where small ball has been more successful than having a big in

especially because our bigs are not that great. But I will give you that Karl has not adjusted at times this year, and a mix of small ball with big and small would likely be better.

that is simply not true the majority of the time, and we are talking about the fact that he employs small ball personnel the majority of the time

it works agains BAD teams with bad, slow footed guards. NEVER is it the better option than playing nene along with kk, timo, manimal who ARE good. i haven’t seen them make the mistakes that most of the little guys have and there is the added bonus that THEY ARE PLAYING THEIR NATURAL FUCKING POSITION and thus have at the very least a rebounding draw instead of a complete deficit.

I've seen it work a lot of time

including tonight. If there was always one of the bigs out there it would probably be even more disastrous because neither is all that good yet. Somewhere around 25-30 minutes for the two would be fine for me, but it needs to be spread out well. I remember seeing the leaders in +/- being almost all guards for the Nugs so it does work quite a bit.

koufos was excellent tonight!

much better than al or rudy. or do you only watch three pointers?

Do you need to be condescending?

I’m not talking about solely tonight, I am saying small ball works often enough.

not trying to be condescending towards you. sorry

unfortunately i don’t have g.k.’s ear.

No worries

we do have a georgekarl on this blog, but he is 17 apparently and maybe not who would mean

Yeah, you can have my ear but it won't do any good.

dammit george, i love you, but you need to be less stubborn.

as soon as you graduate and move out of your parents house.

But who will pay my battle.net subscription?

and those plus minus stats are ridiculous

we are a good team that plays small ball 75% of the game. obviously the guards will have a higher +- through minutes alone.

It all depends on the situation

You are blind if you can’t see the advantages of a small-ball line-up.

But I’m not so stupid to suggest that they work all the time. Cos they don’t.

One is good for building a lead, and one is good for protecting a lead.

I like Karl, but the criticisms are apt: he is wrong not to put taller rebounders in in many situations.

you have to admit though

it’s frustrating to see Karl continue to seem confused as to why we give up a lot of offensive rebounds sometimes. The small ball lineup certainly has gotten us leads, built on leads, and helped us be successful in many situations. But when the other team puts in a bully like Tony Allen, you have to get tougher. Which I’m sure you agree with.

I think a lot of this has to do with GK's lack of trust in the bigs

which in some ways is warranted but would be good if he had more trust, a better big would be the best solution.

We need a big GK can trust to put alongside Nene

Will Mozzy ever be it??? I really hope so. He’s got to stop fouling tho

ADVANTAGES OF SMALL BALL LINEUP?

CAN YOU SAY OK CITY? EARLY EXIT WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE BEAT THEM? NO, I DON’T SEE THE ADVANTAGES OF SMALL BALL.

WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING AT ME?

I am just making a point.

It isn’t an opinion. Look at the line-up stats. A two PG lineup has killed for Denver this year.

But rebounding has hurt Denver in crucial situations. I stand by my point that playing small is a smart tactical move at times. You can build a big lead playing small and fast.

of course, the knife cuts both ways. I get it. Karl, it seems, doesn’t.

LOUD NOISES!!

it works against bad teams with slow footed guards.merely this and nothing more.

Not true.

Nuggets running and going small has built leads in almost every single game. Problem is, other coaches are smart enough to make adjustments: move ball on perimeter, hit threes or miss and get second-hand points since Denver has no one to rebound.

It is a good play some times but Denver needs rebounders to protect a lead.

you can run and build leads just as easilly without putting a 6'8 below the rim player who doesn't run well

at the 4. timo would beat al in a foot race.

I don't disagree

Moz can run and be athletic.

Like to see him get the chance.

or kk or faried. stuborn subborn stubborn.

moz is so inconsistent right now

some games (clippers, knicks) he’s awesome. tonight, he looked pedestrian. from the start of the season, he is getting more time, albeit in one minute increments i think.

true, but there are thre under utilized options for his off nights.

like today when he had trouble handling the ball. go with kk instead of bird. don’t put the man with the worst hands in the league in for him.

Well at least Dodo only played 7 minutes

Patrick

No, it has to do with matchups – slow footed guards match up one on one with our guards. It’s the 3rd guard that creates the mismatch at the 3 and 4 spots and thus, they get posted up, shot over and rebounded over.

i don't disagree that it is the three guard lineup that is the culprit

or any lineup where bird or al play 5.

I agree that neither of these two should ever anchor the 5.

Uh... I think I've been saying that for 20 posts - and this WAS all on GK

Every time the Nugs would start to get momentum or go up 6, 8 or 10 points, here would come some CRAZY substitution and back down the margin would go – The Nugs played well – but it was like a yo-yo….

I agree, keep Mosgov or Koufos in the game to rebound at least

if you want to jerk around, jerk around with the 3 and 4. And for all that is good in the world, set up a decent play for late game situations. Did we not learn from the playoffs?

We might as well sign KMart back since we don't use our 7 footers

and AL at PF doesn’t work

no, then george will just pla a lineup of ty, andre, rudy, al and k-mart.

True...

We have to wait 2.5 years for this sh!t to end :(

I love K Mart

But he’s not a great rebounder.

better than nene, he rebounds when it counts and ISNT SOFT LIKE NANA

nene was soft tonight

Because he was in foul trouble.

Wonder if he realized hmm i have 4 fouls with 35 seconrds left... better try and get

this rebound… but no memphis got 2 straight off board that part kills me

Nene was soft tonight

Because he had on his 4th quarter pink panties.

No

He just gets away with a lot of shit!! lol

Pathetic....that's all

Pusherman - January 31, 2012 reply

Did Gallo get injured?

Ski Bum - January 31, 2012 reply

i honestly thought that had to be the reason

but someone above said that in the post game interview, GK said that he had considered putting Gallo back in. That tells me Gallo wasn’t injured to any serious extent.

Blows my mind

Nope

He just had an AWFUL, INEXCUSABLE 8 point on 10 shots

So ya, take him out when it matters.

I get it

All I can say about this game

Is glad its not a playoff game. I don’t know how to explain missed FTs that would have sealed the W.
This team is still young and we forget that. Ty was not great either tonight, still not back from that ankle injury.
I should get really pissed, but what can you do we are a young team and gave the Grizz a chance when we shouldnt have.
Time to just chill I guess.
Feinstein!!! Write the next 3 previews so I can feel better

JR15 - January 31, 2012 via mobile reply

WAHHHHHHHHHHHH

LOL

+1

WHEN DID WE TRADE GALLO FOR Nikoloz Tskitishvili

WHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halftime...that's why he didn't play in the 2nd half.

Woulda been against league rules :p

Never bring up that name

ever

I can't TAKE IT ANYMORE

I Just want to punch a bunny in the stomach, those damn things overpopulate everywhere they go.

THIS MOVIE WAS LIKE THE GREEN LANTERN FILM

IT SUCKED

Let me get something straight

Gallo was off tonight; Rudy was 0-3 and barely played. Why in the world did he get that last shot?

I would admittedly like to know that;

my first choice for that shot would have been Ty, and my second Buckets

i didn't watch any replays

but i doubt Rudy was the first option. i’m guessing Buckets was the plan, but he couldn’t get open. If not buckets, then who else for the 3? AAA, Corey (who did actually make one), Rudy, or Dre. The 3 was not good for Denver tonight outside of Al.

That's how it looked to me.

Coaches can draw up the play however they want

In the end you only have so many seconds to throw the ball in and find someone open.

I don’t care who you are, you got to try for a shot if it is in your hands with the clock running down.

That play was not drawn up for Rudy.

So why was he in instead of Gallo?

I would have liked to see more Brewer in the 4th for defense

Me too, come to think it.

Karl

I’ve come to the reazation that Karl will always use small ball in cruch time. I can sit here at bitch all I want, but the man is stubborn as hell. He might have over a thousand wins, but how many titles does he have? 0!!!!!

Yup

Has always had quality teams but come playoffs he gets outcoached

there are many coaches w/ 0 titles

and yes, i agree, he will always use small ball. I think just as much as he wants a title, he wants to prove to the NBA that small ball can succeed.

It will work

But we have to ride while its working and adjust when it isnt. We cant just stick with it bc GK has something to prove

He needs to adjust

There are times small ball can work, but when the other team is consistently getting to the basket time and time again, because the team doesn’t have any shot blockers in—there is something terribly, terribly wrong.

Fair point

I just don’t think small ball can work in the playoffs. I hope he can prove me wrong, but I highly doubt it.

You can't go entirely small I agree

Need to have a shot blocking, rebounding, defensive presence. We don’t currently have that. Biggest flaw of the team. Even bigger then the lack of a go to scorer, which can be compensated imo… masked, with the depth of the team.

We must play Fasttttttt

i hate when they walk it up the floor. If your gunna play small play fast

Sometimes I think...

The Nuggets are just trolling their fanbase. Like they have a minimum quota of double digit second half leads that they must have each season…

Man, I think I would rather we just got blown out by 40 then this junk.

Ty Lawson

Did say — and he’s not the only one — that the Nuggets plan this season was to “fly under the radar”.

They could, indeed, be losing on purpose to surprise people in the playoffs.

You heard it here first.

nice way to look at it

with all the media attention of putting Denver in the top 2, they’re deliberately tanking to get back under the radar

If they're going to fly under the radar

Can they just lose by 20, instead of these heartbreaking losses? I’m more afraid that we’re a team that will be caught in good team mode.

The center position

I love Mozgov hence my screen name but Karl will never play him. Maybe we need to look for a center in the trade market perhaps?

Ummm...

…this is perhaps the stupidest night to say that all year.

Moz didn’t sit this game because he was violating some unwritten rule GK wouldn’t ever let anyone including him know about—he sat this game because he picked up 3 fouls in 6 minutes in the first half, then another 3 in 4 minutes in the second.

What did you want him to do, go back in for 30 seconds in crunch-time, during which he picked up #6?

errr, wait...carry the 4--

ummm, I meant ‘2 in 6 minutes in the first half, then another 3 in 4 in the second’…

if hes in foul trouble just play him if your gonna sit him and hes not gonna play in ct

Moz was in terribly foul trouble I agree...

If only there was some player on our bench known for rebounding, defending, and hustle…

hes not playing... and i agree that he shouldn't be playing

We win with this game with Faried.

JMHO

Let's refrain from calling folks stupid please.

Nate Timmons - January 31, 2012 reply

The rest of the season

I don’t like the term stupid getting thrown around. I was trying to say that Moz doesn’t even get 30 minutes of playing time in any game. I’m talking about going forward. Moz has had some nice games and GK just pulls him out. Maybe if we get an established center, GK will play that center instead of going small

Nope

Dwight Howard

Even if we got him Karl would only play him 20 minutes a night lol.

InboundingLobPass - January 31, 2012 reply

Marc Gasol PLAYED 50 MINUTES TONIGHT!

MOZGOV = 10 min.
KOUFOS = 12 min.
NENE = 33 min.
Harrington = 38 min.

Think it’s time to go ahead and admit that Nene was no more a Power Forward on this team tonight than Harrington is a Power Forward in real life.

These lineups are fucking retarded. I’d rather lose playing with a traditional lineup using our Centers as Centers and Nene at powerforward than win with goofy all guard lineups in the reg. season and live in perpetual playoff hell.

Yea gasol outplayed NENE big time