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Second half thread: Nuggets at Pacers

Tied 60-60 going in to halftime. Corey Brewer proves to be the spark the Nuggets need against the Pacers after being down by as many as 13.

Put your second half thoughts here

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They shot 120% and we are still tied

good sign

We Need Fans Like This

We get this guy and we’ll have the best come court advantage…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbhwFY7YhIg

Dre Miller doesn't suck. First
sometimes he doesn't sometimes he does

depends how he’s feeling

Still need better D, Very sad about Whitney Houston
2nd
Ha Ha
Not only did you win, Phil

But you won within the rules.

Well done.

We have a game
Look how the Nuggets are great when Miller goes to the bench...

Slows it up too much

Side note, who thinks Morton needs to expand his preserves choices?
Morton is perfectly fine with his Strawberry preserves

I may expand to Boysenberry however

I go with mixed berry myself.
Listen, 09

Boysenberry is the obvious next step from strawberry. He needs to work his way up to mixed

Listen, Russ not the Scot

he’s not getting any younger. He’s gonna miss out. Better to make the leap to the big berry leagues

The snozberries taste like snozberries!
icwydt

/initialized

Well he doesn't want to get locked into one preserve

because if there is a shortage then he’s screwed.

Like, 15th or something
buffs crushing ASU in tempe
Buffs can't win any road games which matter

grrr

not a surprise

the Scum Devils are the worst Pac-12 team, except for Utah…. gotta crack on my home-state Utes

USC is last I think
how bad must USC suck then....
Cheaters get what they deserve
I didn't realize how amazingly bad the pac-12 is at bball

will they have more than one team in the tourney?

I say no

unless someone besides Washington wins the tournament

Yeah

Cal and Washington are probably both at large. Orgeon and Arizona have a shot and anybody but about 3 of em could win the Pac-12 tourney

one last thing to say

Whitney is happy now, she is free from suffering and she probably likes fun basketball so give her a nice show from the celestial press box!

Hope Lin becomes the next asian superstar

I am half myself but always root for fellow asian-americans!!!

who was the first?
Yao of course
meh I wouldnt call him a superstar
thats like saying eduardo najera was the first mexican superstar
you need to think more broadly

yao was huge in china

Even if only 10% of Chinese people cared about Yao

More people would have cared about him than if 50% of Americans did.

I'm still waiting for the first Irish superstar

We will get there eventually

Boxing and drinking, my friend,

boxing and drinking

and drinking
and drinking
and drinking
and drinking
and potatoes
Wait, they didn't invent vodka.

But they sure enjoy it!

Larry Bird wasn't born Irish

But he’ll die Irish!

There have been some Irish top athletes in sports not very popular in the US
that's exactly what the knicks need, someone who can take a lot of shots and score over 30

wait….

We've gotta find a way to stop the 3 ball

Seems everyone shoots them like they’re layups against us.

lol @ someone on facebook

“Where was Kevin Costner?”

Jackie Moon would be proud of these throwbacks
AAA seems to have found his stroke
TRADE HIM RIGHT NOW
wait hr might raise his value further
indeeedly starting from last game
Im going to say it again I wish nene would take more jump shots
I love how opposing centers can push our centers around with impunity
Koufos gets owned regularly in the post

Mozzy fares better

I didn't catch what Marlowe was rambling aboout

But I like the retro scoring graphic popping up after every score

nice one brew
I will start despising ABA nights if they go with the old school scoreboard
What is the gist?
Altitude is going with a 70s like scoreboard for this Q

which pops up about every 15 minutes and is huge

I'm not picturing 70s style.
Brewer is playing a heckuva game
Yup. Started out a bit sketchy
Nene back in the FT funk
Nene

Make. Your. Free Throws.

Roy Hibbert

Fucking beefcake

Dammit Altitude

I want to know the score and time at all times!!

damn whitney houston is dead? holy shit!
Yep. It's true :(

Not just another Twitter assassination.

Nene hurt?

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Wait what????
Just asked out and Gillan immediately went to him at the end of the bench
Oh crap :(
Like we're not small enough already
Brewer is playing soooooo hard!
We cannot make a fucking FT
Well, occasionally we make one

But we sure can’t make 2 of 2.

SD using fucking is awesome
Sorry :(
Nooz

I said it was awesome

Well I wasn't sure if it was like a sarcastic awesome...or what.

Fucking humour

long losing streaks frustrate errybody
You're sorry about being awesome?

humble 09 is humble

TY TREY!!!!!!!
Ty playing out of his mind tonight 8-10 from the field! seems a little pissed about his all star snub
i think he really like the retro uni
More likely he's pissed about losing 5 straight...

just sayin

he should be pissed at losing 1 straight!
We've outscored them 40-22 since 8:30 left in the 2nd quarter

I like it.

The Nuggets were 60-24 in 76

these jerseys mus result in wins right?

So if K2 fouls out, who's playing center?
Harrington of Course!
theMozgovCocktail
Nene went to the lockeroom?

Nugs luck sucks

Wilson Chandler will be a nice addition once he comes back.
Unfortunately WIlson decided to score 46 last time out
AAA got some nice scoring touch now
AAA is back

I think

Shhhhh...don't scare him
Interesting fact about Paul George....

his middle name is RingoJohn. :)

No Buckets tonight
that's not a foul because......
you must draw blood from lawson
You must break Lawson's nose
basketball reasons
Jesus! Call the foul when Ty gets mugged!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
TEAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!
We as a team have forgotten how to shoot fts
if hibbert is an all star.... than rasheed wallace is sane
ummm...he's on the team

But there are no centers in the east

i'd take d12 and bogut all day over him
yeah, but he only has one foot to stand on currently
So I'm trying to buy a Nene Retro Jersey

Yet the hardwood classic jersey section has the Rainbow skyline… WTF I WANNA BUY THE MINER!

Left calf strain for Nene
x

This is both disturbing and somehow mezmerizing
I do not approve
damn injury bug is so contagious
Great movement!

quick passing is soooo much better

something has clicked on defense
passion? desire? No Miller?
brewer. it's brewer. oh and a pissed off ty
Brewer is playing like the game means something
You know what guys and girls

I found the greatest love all….inside of me

Save all your love for somebody
Tyler Hansborough

not intimidating

who has the more retarded looking face?

gordon hayward or tyler hansborough GO

Team is gonna be very small

especially with Bird seeming to not be in the line up anymore

one day mozgov and nene will be back healthy
harrington, you are allowed to pass when you don't have a good shot

no, really.

Hey, he's not Al Someone-Else's-Buckets
Hansbourough travelled
Hansborough cannot travel
hey refs?

wtf
sincerly, everybody that saw him take 4 steps

Great rebounding
I think he went to inbound while the shot was in the air
Shit. Come on guys. Buck up
anyone else think nene should just play with icy hot patches wrapped over his entire legs

no more strains

Seems like a good plan
Jump ball? Bullshit
Another terribad call by the refs.

Not a Jump ball. Foul on Hansborough

who's @ center

Al or faried?

And refs taking over
OH THE HELL IS THAT A FOUL?
And then the refs compound their errors by calling a T

sigh

And George T'd up...

what a bunch of bs

even indiana announcers confused by that T
and that's what faried will do for you
Hansbourough boroughs through
hansborough = dopy gordon hay ward
Al Stealington
Quick hands!!!!
Beauty bound Manimal!!!
Manimal snags it
love me some faried
2nd favorite nuggie
dam harrington 3-15 from the field horrible
Let's trade him
at least he's still playing hard...

tonight

hmm afflalo may have a step back
MANIMAL FROM DRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MANIFUCKIN"MAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MILLER!

I’ve always liked him!

He had a bad 1st half

we should trade him

actually, a bad 4 games in a row
Oh noes

this must mean he will forever be horrible

That man(imal) can JUMP!
Miller attitude adjustment worked!
dahntay jones, 11 million well spent on the pacers part
Project X looks like the stupidest movie ever
I think I say that about almost half the movies I see commercials for
you have obviously never seen a twilight movie
This is a fact.
Can't all be gems like Megashark vs Crocasaurus
You had better

not be dissin’ Megashark!

This this this.
No way!

they had a Megashark marathon on scyfy yesterday. I was in heaven!

Wait, I missed it?????

Did that show Shark Attack 3: Megaladon?

Not sure, I missed most of the marathon
Hey. There are bad movies that are so bad they are good.
Woah

Dahntay is Bucekts’ cousin. Did everyone know this?

WHAAA???
seriously?

what like third cousin once removed?

AAA is definitely looking more confident
It's a thing of beauty
fucking finaly
faried is looking more confident

amazing what pt does

Fuck you fucking refs!!!
AAA!!!

and fuck you refs!

3 secs on Pacers

great D!

Great Rotations!!!!

I never thought I would type that again

100 pts!!!

/thud

6 minutes left, still
I'm gonna need my helmet now

/thud

Can we please get some muthafuckin Tacos in this muthafuckin game!
wow 10 point lead
At some point

some day in the far distant future, Ty Lawson will get calls when he gets fouled. And there will be much rejoicing

until then I'll hold my breath

(passes out)

Nuggets outhustling!!!!
And that is

fucking awesome.

miller clearly either got chewed out or did some soul searching at half.
I don't usually buy the veteran-rookie stuff about attitude and experience and what not

but in this case, I think it does speak to Miller’s veteran-i-ness that he’s turned it around so much in the second half.

OT

Seattle is in the works to build a new arena in case the kings decide to leave. The sonics would be back and I would get to see the nugs in person again twice a year!!!

Only thing I was wondering about that

Even if they take the Sonics name, they don’t get any of the records or anything, right? I thought all that belonged to OKC, so the new Seattle team would inherit all the Sacramento past stats and records and stuff.

Yeah I think the same thing happened with Ravens browns?
Nugs actually outrebounding their opponent.

:)

Still sad I don't have ALT2

or NBA TV, but the box score looks really good! I’m not sure how good either team looks but I know the Pacers are a really solid team, so this is great to see.

ty got fouled but at least he got it back
He gets mugged almost every time he drives
new season high for lawson yay!
fuck nice job on the inbounds D
shame ty can't pull that dre move
andre makes up for the mistake with the savvy move
Do I smell some grade D beef on 4 for a dollar Tacos?

And Nuggets win that I somewhat predicted in the preview thread.

We could be up by a million

if we could hit our ft’s

Best to way to allow momentum

missed Fts and allowed dunks. Lovely

Lawson was molested on that drive
Nuggets have forgotten how to win

this was my concern

Nuggets Karl have forgotten how to win

No I meant Nuggets
Refs are just plain awful,

but we have got to make our ft’s!!!!

al fucking rotate
refs were unsure who it belonged to, but no video review? Why?
not less than 2 minutes? not sure though
one ref looks at another

“you see who it’s off of?”
ref 2: “nope what should we do?”
Ref 1 : give it to the home team?"
ref 2 " sounds right…."

Al and Dre decide to switch.

Just plain lazy D

that's not how you foul....
Another fucking collapse
Please tell me Brewer came in for Miller
dre or al neeed to sit

they don’t want to play D

no timeout either
Harrington wants to switch every screen.

I really hate it

al you bitch
Well that's a bit much
no its not
Last I checked he wasn't a female dog
if he plays like one

he deserves to be called one

Well how bout no one gets called a bitch here?
do you know the lst amendment
looks like off harington
Brewer sub of the game
Didn't he start?
Has never stopped altitude
true but its on nba.tv
I'm watching altitude

and they made him sub of the game

Al is decent in one on one D, but put him in any sort

of PnR situation, or make him rotate, and he is plain stinky-poo

AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
AAAssassin

god that felt good

Aflalo channeling Nick Van Exel!!!!
AAA looks so relieved
Dammit Al

we are up 4 points

you sure we arent down 10?
Fuck.

good move, West :p

Ball don't lie you garbage refs
in what world is brewer on west ok?
Because Al switches every screen

EVERY. FUCKING. ONE

Is this a bad thing?
YES!

it puts our guard on a Power forward in the post. And, unlike the Nuggets, most teams take advantage of such mismatches

Okay...just asking :(
Wasn't trying to be mean.

It just frustrates the hell out of me. It’s the defense preferred by a certain high volume shooter who used to play for our team, and it’s always struck me as just plain lazy.

see Cat i'm not the only one pissed at al
Yeah but you're only one calling him a "bitch"
people swear in here all the time

i think we can all handle the use of this term.

We say

“fuck” etc or that “fucking” guy. I’m offended by the use of the term as a female.

calling a dude a bitch has NOTHING to do with you being a female FYI
FYI, it's offensive.
so we here at DS have only use language that is OK with you...

why, because you post the most?!? you get the crown?!?! seriously get over it. i didn’t say ANYTHING derogatory or insulting to any woman on this blog

Whatever man.
winners
I said my peace. I would hope you'd understand it.

I was wrong.

well, i do understand and comprehend

the words you used and the sentences formed by said words. however, i disagree with your overall point.

there is the lst amendment
right-O sam

and the “swear” i used hardly the worst term i’ve seen used on this blog.

That one guy uses the F word over and over.
Cat was overreacting

She does that some times.

But the first amendment also protects her right to voice offense at that language.

Don't dish it if you can't take it

Or it’s okay for me to use it and when I feel like I don’t want to here it then I’ll take exception

Yeah, all that's annoying

But I don’t understand why people let her get to them so much. She’s just a chatty Nuggets fan.

she tries to RULE
Man there has been some bad officiating on both sides
This is not fucking fun
D E F E N S E
I can't watch...
Backcourt violation!!
ahahahahahahahahahahahahah
hahahahahahahahahaha\
holy god

he was WIDE open

Oh boy

FT time

don't worry

arron is an assassin

neither team wants to win. HA!
AAA is back!

(I hope for good)

Just another example of how important free throws are.
andyone know if moz will be back for the next game???
He's actually in uniform tonight,

so hopefully!

we need him that would be a big lift expecially if nene is out
AAA with a very quiet 23 points
i missed afflalo
STREAK OVER!!!!
NUGGETS WIN!!!! FUCK YES!!!!
SHWEW!

We needed that one, Nation.

High five!

still undefeated against the eastern conference
Brewer, Lawson, Afflalo

I love you

Is this real life?
The streak is over
WIN!

his face is disturbing
..and yet I can't look away
I think it's her mouth on his face...

could be wrong, though

That's creepy as hell!
What did I say yesterday about Brewer?

I said: The Nuggets start winning when he returns.

What else did I say? Don’t panic? Yeah.

now time for a quick liquor store run
Finally
I held back for dinner until now

and it’s gonna taste real good. Till later stiffs!

glad brewer and afflalo came back today
I think it was Nate that said

This team is a paid college team. They sure play like it. Their "team"ness on the road is incredible.

It's perplexing as to why we can't win at home.
Trust me I know. I've witnessed all but 1 loss at home.

It’s hair pulling how they lose at home the way they do

WOW

Nice win!

IIIIIIIIIIII will always love this WIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN and IIIIII will always love this WIIIINNNNNNNN

nuggets needed that win like a fly needs shit.
hi!

hi guys, i’m an italian fan, i always read your blog but i usually don’t post ‘cause my english is so poor, as you can see.
But i have a question: why you always double team at the end of the games? It always kills you, i really really don’t get it.
Do you have an explanation?

Anyways, great AAA and good win!!

Two words

George Karl

You English

is better than my Italian

And my English, apparently

you = your

Probably most of us
no we don't have an explanation
Eh?

Tonight I think a double team on West would have helped.

Brewer was just too small; West backed him all the way to the hoop for an easy bucket.

yes but

that game was over, and two 3s by George on two double team could cost us the win.
Some days ago I was going to break my monitor for a Budinger dagger on a double team.
I don’t know, i’d prefer to see more defence one on one, since we have some pretty defenders in AAA, Brewer and Lawson. Maybe i’m wrong.

Denver played more zone tonight which is one reason why they were not as tired.

Let one guy be 10-11, he can’t win it all by himself.

For the most part I agree

But any time a player is getting backed down toward the rim, I think you have to send another defender. I’d rather chance a three than a certain two.

Totally remember that Buddinger dagger. That was killer.

mission sweep the east

is still in effect. 1st team in NBA history! Let’s do it

Heck ya. Currently is any other team undefeated vs the opposite conference?
Congratulations Nuggets
Afflalo and Lawson

Combined to go 18-28 for 50 points.

I'm so happy to see Afflalo getting better.
Maybe he got some therapy or something

I don’t think his problem was physical. I bet he got in touch with a Ball whisperer.

Yeah

It was easy to write off his 20+ points in the loss to Golden State because a lot of it was at garbage time, tonight, he was hitting big shots and free throws, making buckets that mattered.

Who still wants to trade him?

I never did, I was joking about that.

But I still think he’s overpaid.

I never did. And as Russscot pointed out

can’t trade him anyway.

I think we could in May.
I don't think so....but read Russscot fan shot.
We can't trade him this year.

Per the new collective bargaining agreement, he signed too late.

Him and Charmin

Hell AC had a couple of good games when he played for the Nuggets.

not really and please never speak his name again
The problem is, he really only had two good games.
time for some orange roughy!

good night everyone

how crazy is it that I wanted Afllalo taking shots down the stretch?

what a fast turnaround. hope it sticks.

Big win

for the Nuggets tonight. I think we found are starting small forward while Gallo is out

Holy crap they won!

It is a miracle!

Geez, David West was 10-11 shooting?

wow.

Missing that last FT I think ruined their comeback.
0-1 on making critical passes
affIaIos benefitin from a bigger roIe on this team with guys out, so at some point depth kind of works against you when you dont get pt.

affIaIo is gettin back to Iast season, shouId he be a go to guy in games no, but his shot is comin back and he’s shootin wih more confidence, so at Ieast he’s an asset again.

ty was abIe to do what he wanted against IND, they didnt cIog the paint up very weII, hibbert is awfuI at heIp defense. anyways great win against a team with onIy 2 Iosses at home aIthough on a b2b. affIaIo shouId be abIe to buiId off of these Iast 2 games, ty did weII this game, but their perimeter defense was awfuI with jones and george, so idk if teams who are prepared to cIog the paint up, can ty stiII be as effective.

Ha! Blake Griffin blew a dunk.
what happens..

when you pose for the cameras so much..

A little confused...

Not sure if I am more happy about the win.. or the fact that the Nuggets get 2 days off before Phoenix.. rest up guys.

Played with purpose.. except Dre turning into AC for awhile in the 2nd. But a win is a win… another road win for the Nuggets. This is a bizarro season.

I'm most happy about AAA
Yes...

If he has found his game then Nuggets are helped alot.. !

Harrington needs rest.

Some idiotic coach played him 36 minutes even though he was 0-6 for FG and I think 3-17 overall.

Who else to play???

Especially when Nene went down?

This

Harrington certainly struggled. But with no Nene, his length is critical.

Anyone who could shoot at least 1-6 from downtown would have been an improvement.
No argument there..

He needs to find his shot again. Rest will help him.

He's old for an NBA player.

Playing him that much risks an injury and losing him for good.

Still pulled down 6 rebounds, blocked 2 shots

And played average defense. Which is good for Al.

If you want to be critical on Karl for playing his best, tallest player when Nene is down, you are trying too hard to be critical.

Nobody can ever disagree with you
That's not true

I’m just really good at debating because I have facts on my side.

:)

This team needs the rest

even with the win tonight.

Looks like

the big softy will be out for a week

we'll have to give the rooks some more looks
Nene is a big piece for this team

but I’m excited that Faried will get more run in his absence

Bummer

Can’t catch a break. More time for Kenneth.

I think we are better when he plays less minutes.
Nene play good tonight.

His defense was key to the 2nd Q comeback.. He is will be missed.

How great was it to see AAA awakening and

Brewer back and doing what gallo is depended on for?

AAA

I gotta give this dude some props. i’ve been really hard on the guy and he showed up and played like the AAA we all love tonight

So the Nuggets are still undefeated against Eastern Conference Teams?
Yes

Basketball reasons.

F'ing hysterical
I wish

we could just play eastern conference teams

Well, see you guys later.
Off Topic

I just saw Whitney Houston was found dead.

we all know
my bad

I was watching the game and not participating in the thread

Don't apologize

Get snarky back. Don’t let these jerks push you around.

They're both dead now...

Yawn

I just do not care about celebrities. Dead or alive. It matters to me not.

But: it was weird how I picked up a stupid magazine at work today from last summer that was making a big deal about how overweight and terrible Whitney was looking. And then she dies later in the day. I can go weeks without thinking of her.

Neener neener!

Who is she?
Crackhead

don’t worry about it.

yeah and she fucked up Bobby Brown
That's like saying Nancy fucked up Sid.

pretty much a mutual screwing

True

but I liked Bobby brown more. At least he had a good song

and one hawt hairdoo
Who's Nancy and Sid?
Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, and his gf Nancy
she had a great voice though

back in the day.

I looked them both up. Now that I found them on wiki...

I still don’t know who they are, lol.

I makes to much money to do crack

" crack is wack" Whitney Houston

At least the streak is over…..

agreed lesbian durant
i think im supposed to be lesbian durant
I thought the L was for lesbian
Me too.

Besides, it was Ty Lawesome who came up with the Kevin differentiators.

you're future durant

who only has half a body

my bad

Must have misread it

Any a new one is about to begin!

Let’s go streaking!

mission 10 game winning surge back to the 2 seed
I laughed at Cat

For predicting a 5-0 road trip. So. No more laughing at what seems to be impossible.

Why not? Gonna be tough sans Gallo.

Corey Brewer

I’m proud of this guy. He really brought the energy tonight and lifted this team to the W. I don’t even know if I want Chandler to come back

i was never sold on wilson's game either

i wonder if this whole “i want to come to denver” shtcik is just because he can’t play with anyone else but us for the rest of this season

Wilson Chandler

ESPN is saying that he will only sign a deal for the rest of the season when he comes back. So I don’t really want him back because he will take minutes away from Brewer. If he does come back, we should just sign him to the veteran minimum for the rest of the season

ESPN likes to mix up the cocktail

if you know what i’m saying. trade rumors and such

it might be true

I just don’t want Chandler to take minutes away from Brewer

imo, brewer is a nice energy guy, but he's clumsey

i think chandler has a higher ceiling. He has an ability to take over offensively and has great length and toughness. I’d take ill will over brew all day

And I will disagree

with you. We need an energy guy and brewer is that guy. He always rus the court and fights for offensive rebounds which most of the other guys don’t. I’m not going to pay Will a big contract to come off the bench. And if these rumors are true, he will leave denver at the end of they year. So I say stick with Brewer

Nate Robinson is coming to Denver?
Yeah

we trade Nene and Gallo for him

Excellent!

We need another shot guy!

starting 5

pg-ty
sg- robinson
sf-Dre
pf- AAA
C- brewer
gk is drooling

That would be a good line up

For a high school basketball team.

A 6’8" center in high school will win you some games.

Starting five

Ty
Robinson
Dre
Stone
AAA

I like that except maybe Stone is too tall.
trade for AC

you know you’d green light that trade GK

AAAAACCCCCCCCCCeeeeeeeee!
ok then sign

Aaron brooks when he comes back from china

HAHA

smallest backcourt ever. unless we can get boykins back

and Mugsy!
let's call spud out of retirement while we're at it
I think, just to make the fans happy,

we should resurrect Manute Bol to play the point.

haha. he was a good dude

read an article about all the charity work he did. not quite to the extent of dikembe but he did a lot.

very giving man, from what little I know
say it ain't so
who is watching knicks vs twolves?
Is AAA back? credit it kufous for key tip ins that softy wouldnt have gotten
I don't feel Nene has been consistently as soft this year as in years past.

And he was very aggressive tonight before he got hurt.

Nene

He is still soft. He still misses easy layups

Yeah

K2 is quietly playing some very solid center for this team.

Really glad Denver has him locked up.

I love the energy K2 is bringing

However I can’t wait until Mozgov gets back

Yes

Moz definitely deserves to be the starter. But K2 needs to play more back-up minutes at center.

7 points and 7 boards

I like that guy a lot.

ya nene was tough tonight, but still wouldnt get the tip ins

K2 has been solid

Sorry if there was confusion

I was talking about Kufos. I really like him.

So Nene's hurt again?

Good thing he’s not soft.

being injured =/= being soft, imo
Just like don't squeez the Charmin
They sent him to urgent care

He got a pink panties wedgie that has to be removed.

I'm disappointed

in Nene. we should have just let Houston overpay for him

Just think

if we didn’t sign Nene, we would have a shitload of money to spend in free agency this offseason

We are in a minority here but I agree with you.
probably would have been a longshot

but I think we could have lured Dwight Howard here

And I would argue,

that if we hadn’t signed him, we wouldn’t have nearly as many wins this year.

And I would disagree with you

I think we would still be in the same position we are now

with who, exactly, playing PF?

Al? K2? What happens to our depth? Listen, I get just as frustrated as anyone when Nene fingerrolls instead of hammering it down, but he was the top big man on the market for a reason. Unlike AAA, a lot of teams wanted him, with good reason.

You're right

But this won’t stop the criticisms of Nene.

The fact is, with the 85 percent cap requirement, the Nuggets were going to have to overpay for someone before this season. And I’d have rather Denver overpaid for Nene, soft though he is, than for some unknown.

I know

but I just am mad that I have to see his softness for the next five years

He was the top big man because

It wasn’t a really good free agen class

Didn't say it wasn't

But you’re still not addressing my point. Who would you want, that we could have had on the roster, to play his minutes at PF?

I know what you're saying

I just think we overpaid for him. that’s all

fair 'nuff

Pretty sure we paid what we had to to keep him. Might be too much…we’ll see.

and we will see

when playoff time comes

We did

And I’m OK with that. Nene is a solid 15 and 8 guy on offense and a very underrated on-the-ball defender.

It annoys me how help defenders usually rack up the defensive stats.

Nene isn’t as good a defender as K-Mart, but he’s damn close.

See Russscot this is what I was fishing for.
And I failed!!!!

OH NOES!!!! :p

I had to say it!
i think we've seen the extent of nene's game

he hasn’t added anything new to his skill set and his FTs seem to be getting worse. i like him a lot as a dude, but he is certainly frustrating on the court.

Yeah

and he misses all these easy layups

that's when i yell at the TV the most
OT: they just said the target center had its 4th largest crowd ever

all to see linsanity. that’s sad for the minny fans.

Lin

The kid is a beast. Kobe Bryant disresepected him and he went out there and shitted all over the Lakers. i like the guy because all he does is Lin

He is a Linner
huge FTs coming up for the Linner
Especially since Love and Rubio

Are a pretty good story on their own.

and the fact that KG played there for EONs

and those teams with sprewell and sam i am cassell were pretty good

Good point
i'm not familiar with minneapolis, but is there a large Asian contingency there?

maybe that’s why the attendance is up tonight?!?

Probably

And you will no doubt see a similar bump in attendance anywhere the Knicks play on the road.

Fucking sneaky ass shit Kroenke

Switching to the Avs game after the locker room interview…

TOO SMART FOR THAT

Like the Infusion of Energy from Brewer, Manimal and Koufos

It seemed to energize the other guys. I thought Nene looked great until he was injured. Really like Ty’s aggressiveness tonight. The pace was terrific – - finally our Nuggs were running again. AAA is starting to look like AAA again. And, Brewer, Koufus and Manimal provied needed energy and enthusiasm. By the way, LOVED Manimal’s highlight worthy blocked shot and alley oop dunk.

we moved up to 6th seed with the WIN

currently slated to play the spurs if the playoffs started now

Eeek!

That is probably the No. 1 match up I’d like to avoid. OKC will be tough, too. But Poppovich is a genius.

I think

we would beat the Spurs in five or six

i have no idea how we'd do against the spurs

they are being very wise and getting their second unit LOTS of playing time. Every time I see highlights or watch them it seems like it’s Danny Green, Splitter, of Kawhi Leonard making plays. i think Pop is smart for developing these guys

Whew.

Bout time!

"Whew"regarding the win.

not the recap…

I got drunk....!

so, let me assume something now… don’t tell anyone, but I love AAA!

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