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FIRST!!

TURN THIS AROUND!!!!

Dear Master

How did you beat the honorable SD Cat

At your command,
Grasshopper

Grasshopper

I stay on top of twitter.

Sensei

Twitter?

What is this “Twitter” you are talking about?

Well it's this thing where you tell everyone what you're doin'

like right now I’m chillin with the Stiffs

Ok.....and ahh ...

who dear leaders, can possibly give a rats ass?

It's a meme, from Purple Row. Wrong audience
lol I'm on twitter right now ripping Ty lawson
You only beat me because I was getting food :(
If all the Nuggets went to prision they would have to waste all their money on protection or hemroid medicine
ewww
eww is right I hate seeing us get slapped around like sissys
yeah me too

but coach could you come up with another image?

Some sissies may like that.

bulging butt veins?

As long as there’s consent, it’s not considered sadomy.

Uh...this is getting awkward
yeah but , oh never mind

Get’em a soap on a rope.

We'll win.
hey man good for you having faith on a night like this!
I have no other choice but to believe.
Are you george karl's live in or what no choice?
I mean I'm not watching the game

just following the box score. So I can’t see whether the shots are bad or whatever.

a fresh page for a fresh start
we need a new mind set!

I need a new chemistry set.

More like a new offensive set.
Poll question

Girl begging me to come over or watch the 2nd half?

Begging?
yup!
Meh. Begging is soooo blech
You're still here?
GO!

Nothing to see here.

Unless there’s a camera, but I digress insanely.

shoot score MSOG get off your couch
Hey look we're losing!
Dramaville on BBC America seems much more appealing right now

Of course that might have to do with Idris Elba

Is Idris hot?

Pics plz.

Idris is a beautiful man

Played Stringer Bell on the Wire

Depends if you like his kind.

that entire comment is like the roof joke over my head
Idris Elba is an actor

He introduces something called Dramaville on Wednesday nights on BBC America. Tonight Dramaville is hte show “The Hour” starring Dominic West who was also in The Wire

I like the strategy

We got 38 points by running around aimlessly. Let’s have 24 more minutes of that.

just checking

this is one o the games we were supposed to lose, right?

Supposed, no....likely to...yes
Are you referring to the 5 games Karl allotted himself?
no but good point
With all the injuries and tough schedule

is there any game we are supposed to win?

march is right around the corner
I'm fine with time warping with a quick stop for my Bday
So close and yet so far
why are we taking so many jump shots
because we can't get inside
they arent trying
I think they gave up early

Well Russ might

it is the easy way out its a war in the paint and sometimes you have to force your way in we want no part of the war tonight. That's why I call us sissys I hate this makes me want to fight someone and I am an old Fart
If we keep forcing our way in, we are going to foul out, IMO
fight fight fight
Looking Very Lottery Team-Esque Tonight
If only....

Instead our more competent players will come back, will be able to score without a structures offense (albeit not too efficiently), we’ll make the playoffs and lose

Got kicked off the TV

Gonna be sore later that I missed this amazing fourth quarter comeback.

I dont foresee any soreness
Disappointed a bit in the effort. . .AAA and TY have not stepped up
Young, haven't hit prime - - why do they look so tired?
i have yet to see ty play consecutive strong games. i don't think his body can handle it.
This is getting ugly
This is awful

Anyone know what offense we’re running?

Random Offense.

Missed three's, missed ft's
well weve missed 3's after weve missed 3's
wow this half court offense is PATHETIC
We don't have one. :(
What happened to the run and gun Nuggets??

Screwed the pooch.

It's all predicated on Ty Lawson

When he penetrates into the paint, it sucks everyone in then he dishes it out. When Ty can’t do that, we’re fucked and just pass around until a 3 pointer is hail maried

This is true

Makes you wonder how long practicing that offense can really take…How is that all we have?

It's up to Ty to take it to the next level and bark out some type of half court offense

But he hasn’t yet

Defense sucks. been like this all year, sucks terrible sick of it
why is our team a bunch of pussys why dont we attack on offense or on defense?
basketball reasons.
Mavs shooting 43% from 3

Nugs 22%

Damn

Should have traded AAA this morning.

Nuggets Have Worst Perimeter Defense in the League. . Ready for Chandler
why are we so scared of them?
Damn

Should have traded DRE this morning.

As GK says, Looking a bit like We are playing at the Y Tonight
Bingo scott hastings hit it, dallas will be good in the west because they have a

HALFCOURT OFFENSE… wilson chandler cant get back soon enough

I'm excited for him too

But not because he’ll help establish a half court offense…he can play good 1 on 1 ball, which is what our offense is

Damn

Should have traded FARIED this morning.

Chandler Should Immediately be the the Starting Two Guard

errrr, i love his perimeter d

? afflalo has been good lately... chandler is FAR better than brewer
Damn

Should have traded Al this morning.

I thought Faried would Play More Physical. .

He’s kinda. . umm. .. soft….

our whole team is just scared
Damn.

Should have traded Rudy this morning.

6 mavs in double figures I think I might throw up
Sad Thing Is, The Mavs have played really average tonight..
see that circle thing up there? try to get the ball through it.
Need Nene back in the worst way...

No front court offense without him

Well looks like a team that hit a brick wall

Oh well what are you going to do.
Btw we look gassed/ look like the Washington Wizards

Would be a great season to be this awful every night. . amazing Draft coming..
Which is really a bad thing since, and I quote me

“Our wins are predicated on our commitment to running.”

You know if we had made 1/2 of our FTs this would be a different game
we'd be down about 20?
Well, we might have been tied at the half

which changes strategy IMO

There's no evidence they ever had a strategy
Well I'm not going to debate that because no one here can prove it

one way or the other

nuggets have played with 0 urgency or effort no energy
durant misses three straight go-ahead baskets and rockets win
i don't think that we should even care what the thunder are doing

our competition is for the fourth and fifth spots

Thats who we are playing tonight.

Dallas, 4th place.

Anyone Watch The Association Today??
Is it just me, or do the players tend to tune GK out. . Kinda like background noise. .
I didn't get that impression at all
buckets said the same thing haha
When did he say that?
That was the interview where he was making fun of George

Al was imitating how George falls out of his chair.

Well that's different than saying the team tunes him out
He said a lot of things.

None of them very complimentary.

And I think some was teasing too
Interesting How GK thought AAA's Body Language was bad....You think???
well, we definitely need our three starters back
Also, Josh Kroenke Needs Some Conditioner or Something

The greasy comb over looks a little 70’s pornish..

Yup

Can’t wait for a couple of episodes in with Melvin Hunt takes over for Karl…

there should be a mercy rule

when the other team is up 30 after 3

why is birdman driving the basketball...
Remember when we were 2nd in the West

And cared how OKC did.
Then Magic Johnson cursed us, I want him to reverse curse us.
Losing to Dallas is atrocious. This is the same team we used to own for the past 5 years. Something switched off after that Memphis game where we had a lead and coughed it up

I've decided I'm not going to worry about the seeding

Once you’re in the playoffs anything can happen

IF

we make the playoffs

We'll make the playoffs
corey brewer 2-12 wow
He's allowed a shitty game

Ty, AAA, AL not so much

Which is Better - A First Round Playoff Exit or a Top 5 Pick??
Top 5

So we can draft a proper PG that can run a half court offense

oh please

yeah let’s replace our best player. and as if there’s a half-court offense to run.

Gallo is out best player
they are both on the same level
tossup

but I think Ty is more valuable to this team.

I rank by importance to the Nuggets

Nene > Gallo > Ty > Miller

Our best player is Stone.
Gallo may be our best

but Ty’s our second best, and as stated above, there IS no half court offense to run. Dre’s not doing shit either.

Are you serious?

giving up on ty after one game.. pathetic

No it's not just cuz of this one game

His game has been exactly the same since we drafted him in 2009. Outrun everyone to the hoop and distribute the ball. I haven’t seen his jumper improve (That would improve his game a lot). His pick and roll game (our big money offensive play) is still mediocre. Not having Nene makes this problem even worse.

He just hasn’t taken that leap yet

Not sure if serious....
Dude....

We need a half-court to run. Not Ty’s fault

That is true

But watch Andre miller play, he directs traffic wanting a screen here, someone to roll to the basket there (Chauncey did this even better) Ty doesn’t do that, he just waits for the other players to do it themself

Fair enough

I would hope experience helps him improve in that area. I think 2 guard would be the priority…or a big man depending on Moz’s development

I Love Ty. . he must have hit the Dallas Bars last night. . dead man walking tonight
seriously, does he ever play well on b2b?
this box score is hilariously bad
I don't know IF I have ever seen a much worse Nuggets effort. . maybe that awful Pacers game last year
that game they almost set a record for making like 15 out of 16 3 pointers
Let's see we are down by 30 which sucks but we are missing 36ppg from injuries.

If we can get healthy we will be ok.

ITs not the loss that is the concern. . the effort was lousy .. an this has been a trend
Last night disagrees
Against a god awful Suns team..
After a lot of rest

Let’s face it, if the only way Nuggets can win is with lots of rest they can write off this season now because other teams, some of them with older players (SA) seem to do fine in this schedule.

Yes but the effort was there and your argument was lack of effort
Im not talking one game against a lousy team after losing several in a row at home..

We need effort night in and night out, and it has not been there. . .

We are uneven but I think we have shown effort more often than not.
yup. poor effort is unexcusable
They Kinda Miss Kmart Throwing Chairs in the Locker Room....

Watch Clippers live.

They Do Some Leadership on this team. . very laid back and "nice" team...

Damn Euro Hipsters.

with Their European Carry alls
Jordan hamilton baby
JHAM looks like JR, even the hair
Wait, I'm doing a math problem

Entire front line out + playing world champs + on the road = 99% chance of getting killed

Oh, so what were we talking about?

Shit effort
thats what I used to yell at my opponent ater I won big

and gotta tell you My Gramma was pissed!

Mavs Missing JTerry and Boubous. . and they played pretty awful in the first half..

Poor poor effort. .

aaa+ty+mller

1 for 19 tonight

wow.

1 for 19
hey nuggz fan, just wondering

how Ty and AA and Dre play tonite?

The people who rely strictly on emotion and not on facts would say

“They made a good solid effort.”

add brewer

and the 4 of them are 3 for 32?

i'm not an analyst but don't think thats good
Nuff said. . .
I would rather get our shit rocked

and have our weaknesses exposed. When we have guys like Gallo come back who can score despite our shitty offense, it proves nothing. Once we get to the playoffs, teams adjust and we don’t.

thats the spirit!
This going to be a bad bad month folks. ..
You know sometimes you just get your ass handed to you

due to a confluence of events. I chalk this loss up to those things.

Damn

Should’v traded Melo.

JHam

10 pts in 4 minutes.

Maybe he is our best player.

Love him

could be a work in progress at an actual shooting guard

AAA should be worried

But he isn’t, Karl’s got this

I wish nba.com would get his actual picture instead of using the shadow outline picture.
No energy

Had no chance from the tip. Should be a pride check moment for the team right now. Can handle losing but getting absolutely destroyed, at least in part because of a lack of effort is pathetic. Team treated it like they were at the YMCA, playing a game of HORSE.

80's Nuggets Got Good When They Added a Tough Guy in Calvin Natt
Does our team hate losing???
They welcome it

Like a colonoscopy

I'm going to go watch some world news to cheer me up.
i'd be happy to see the nuggets pull it down to under 15 at the close.

just for the pride of it

Any bets on whether we drop below .500 in the next month??
Unfortunately there's no way that happens
i know we're like some old brie in the fridge but don't think we're that off yet
Six games left in Feb

We might take three of them. Probably no way we drop below .500.

Let's go lose in the playoffs
Woo hoo 20 point deficit!
if we cut to ten

then i don’t cut myself or anyone else today

sir - step - away - from - the - knife
There's always Kufos, Stone and Hamilton.
Julyone stone looks good
Stone has amazing court vision

able to make things happen when the ball stops

it's junk time

like finding a wrapped snickers in the garbage

I know tonight isn't the night to pick on individual players

as we laid a big steaming collective dump, but miller has been reprehensibly bad for about 8 straight games now. I am out of patience with him. He is a good player but not a good fit and his attitude sucks. There are teams that would like a solid PG/expiring contract. Let’s get him moved.

He's definitely playing for a trade..
Bring back Felton!
Sign Boykins!!!

We need some speed off the bench. .

'Dre has been one of my favorite players for years but

I have to agree. His value to this squad was not in the up tempo game we normally play but in the half-court offense we may be forced into in the playoffs. If we don’t have a half-court offense or won’t run one then…

I bet we drop under .500 after a home loss to San Antonio in a few weeks..

I bet the Patriots beat the Giants this sunday..

come on, add gallo, moz and even nene and this team picks back up again
All those guys together and this team still doesn't go past the first round.

But hey, at least we don’t have Yi Jianlian!

i think we'd compete against dallas with them here
They dominated us in Denver the other night...
Look at the schedule and do the math...
If Nuggets win 2 games out of the next six games we drop to .542
Where are the 2 wins??? Playing like this??
I'm hoping

Minn and Mem

Those will tough wins. . .both teams are playing well. . .
Yeah. all I can say is yikes.
If we win one game out of the next six we will be .514 so yeah

you are right when you say if we lose all six we are sub .500. Could it really happen?

agree k2 was decent

Trade him for Lin.

i would even throw in birdman
So who gets TACOS tonight

for Dallas :(

i like faried's offensive game

more than his rebounding, but i also like the nuggets so i dont know much about basketball

he'll be solid in about 2 years. hopefully outpaces nene's growth curve
so were forgetting this game ever happened

Right?

yup

one of those flush it and forget it games.

We all fell down some stairs.

cant wait to hear george karls postgame interview
Let me do it for you now so you can move on with your day.

“Our commitment is to run. When we don’t run we don’t win. Aaron looked like he was having some problems tonight. Ty looked lost out there. Kufos was decent. We couldn’t get into the paint and our 3-ball wasn’t working well for us tonight.”

Did I get it right?

It's almost like your name

is georgekarl or something

you are correct in blaming the players

but you forgot all the excuses for the terrible effort.

In fact, I bet it’s kind of like what his pregame speech sounds like: “boys, we are riddled with injuries and played last night, so it would be nice to win, but a loss would be fine. Hard work on 3”.

Well mercifully that's over
i will have nightmares
Meh. This kind of loss I think is easier to take than losing in the last second

on a blown inbound pass…….

I got the roofies.

boy, someone owes me money for all the time i lost tonight
You will never have those 2 hours back. .. EVER
then i must buy a service guarantee next time.
Never buy those. Waste of money
Kufos had a career high of 14 rebounds.
That's terrific
the only brightness in a rather dark and dreary night
Thank God for Kosta Koufos. .

Never thought I would say those words as a Nuggets fan…

Oh and also, we are now in 7th place in the West.

We would play San Antonio if we went to the playoffs tomorrow.

Well it's a good thing we aren't

Good. (seriously)

well, good night and happy amnesia
I'm taking a wonderful dose of RetCon
about three shots of bourbon is just as good
Very glad i didnt waste my evening watching that garbage

This season is awful, and its because the fucking owners just COULDN’T POSSIBLY extend the season just a few more weeks. In return NBA fans have received a much diminished product night to night.

Good work, owners. You’ve actually managed to turn someone who used to watch nearly every minute of the Nugs season into one who just fast forwards through the steaming pile you’re forcing us to watch on back to backs.

I was seriously banking on shot on Karl. Threw me out of left field there.

bird played good again.. good to see
Delete Thread

and then call the Men In Black for me

This game was so fucking awful

I participated in the ESPN baseball poll

I’m for getting rid of the Designated Hitter in the American league

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