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Denver Nuggets (10-4) 2023-24 Season Thread: 11/22 @ Magic
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I'm not angry at this loss at all. This is the lineup GK needs to play because dudes played with heart and toughness. Brewer and Manimal had awesome games and it just shows me that Manimal needs to get more minutes.
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I'm completely agree. I'm glad Karl didn't stick out the entire game with his starters/main guys who got the team down big, like he did in Dallas. Watching Brewer, Faried & Andersen out there in the second half, down 23, believing they could comeback and win was great. (Ty & Dre also seemed to pick up their play once those guys were playing strong)
It's a shame they wound up losing; just a rookie mistake by Faried at the wrong time. He's owning up to it like a vet, though.
Harrington's play has reverted back to straight BUNS. I guess all those miles he has on his wheels, combined with this hectic schedule, has really taken a toll on his fatigue. Miller's just been looking disinterested as hell for the past couple weeks now. And it was nice of AAA to give us fans a false sense of hope with a few nice performances last week/earlier this week.
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UGH SMH!
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Nuggets need to keep this energy up. Pretty wack that it seems GK isn't going to give Andersen a look tonight, with how well he's been performing.
Hope Ty's okay; another injury is the last thing the Nuggets need.
Hope Ty's okay; another injury is the last thing the Nuggets need.
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Cot damn, Ty done for the night then AAA goes down.
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LETS GO GUYS.
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GK needs to go. That can't be the best play to draw up.
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A must needed win. Hopefully management can sign Chandler ASAP.
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Every win is a big win with the current roster. Need to get healthy.
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QFT, hopefully it won't be too late.
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Gritty win. Ty is listed as day-to-day.
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Revenge
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The guys play hard but they don't have a big margin of error.
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Man, things are getting worse before they're getting better.
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Brutal.
This All-Star break is much needed.
This All-Star break is much needed.
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[h1]Kiszla: Nuggets' swoon? Put the blame on George Karl[/h1]
The Nuggets are too busy making excuses to make a jump shot. Rationalize it any way you want, but during an excruciatingly bad four-week span, Denver has been the worst team in the Western Conference.
Blame injuries for the team's woes. George Karl does. But the woes of a team playing bad basketball begin with the coach.
At midterm of this crazy, don't-blink NBA season, what grade should we give Karl?
Let's call it a D+.
It has not been a total failure for Karl.
But the coach is kidding himself if he thinks the only things ailing the Nuggets are the nagging injuries to forward Danilo Gallinari and center Nene. This is a team that has let the thin air out of its home-court advantage. The Nuggets have forgotten how to hold a fourth-quarter lead. For a banged-up team, Karl seems confused by a surplus of big men and doles out their playing time on a whim.
With the Nuggets headed to the all-star break sitting in ninth place in the conference standings, I asked Karl to evaluate the performance of himself and his coaching staff.
"It's a lockout year," Karl said. "It's a year where I don't want to really look at myself during the year, because I look at what I've got to do tomorrow."
The 18-17 record does not surprise Karl. But he knows it means the Nuggets will have little or no margin for error during the stretch run.
"I wish we would have had a little buffer," Karl said. "I'm not panicking either way. I mean there have been games I've been disappointed how I've done my job, and there are other games we as a coaching staff have gone above and beyond what we're capable of doing."
Since Jan. 28, Denver has lost 12 of 16 games. Sure, the team has been hurt. But what's more worrisome is how the Nuggets have hurt themselves. Five of the losses were suffered before the talent core became seriously depleted. The slump started with an annoying tendency to blow fourth-quarter leads. For a team that prides itself on
Leyba, The Denver Post
sharing the basketball, too many players seem uncertain what to do with the rock when they get it.
While Karl's response to the meltdown has ranged from a don't-worry, be-happy song to rolled eyes at any suggestion of deep flaws, the losses have hit as hard as a knockout blow to the ego. Within the walls of the Nuggets' front office, there's no longer solid confidence this team is ready in 2012 to challenge the top teams in the West.
Oklahoma City looks as scary as Kevin Durant, the league's deadliest scorer. San Antonio stubbornly stays strong despite the decline of Tim Duncan and the frequent absence of Manu Ginobili. The Los Angeles Clippers, of all teams, have become as steady as the hand of MVP candidate Chris Paul. And the Dallas Mavericks now appear they won't surrender their NBA championship without a fight.
During the slide, there's no doubt Denver has lost its mojo. The challenge of this condensed season is there are few practices and even fewer off days to halt a downward spiral and reset.
"My gut says it's going to be a heck of a run," Karl said. "I think the second half is going to be extremely important to re-establish home court, re-establish and regroup our defense, and understand the things that bring confidence to us. One of them is intensity; the other one is passing the ball to each other.
"Our pick-and-roll defense is not the worst in the league, but it's chaotic right now. How we straighten that out without practicing
a lot will be a commitment by the coaches, and the players have got to figure it out."
Guard Arron Afflalo was asked if he remains confident the Nuggets could again be one of the top four teams in the West when the roster returns to full health.
"Yes," he confidently replied.
After beating cancer and dealing with the fallout from Carmelo Anthony's trade demands, Karl richly deserved the three-year contract extension he received last season.
Now, it's time for the coach to earn all that money.
It's far from a certainty the Nuggets will make the playoffs.
If they don't, it's on Karl.
The Nuggets are too busy making excuses to make a jump shot. Rationalize it any way you want, but during an excruciatingly bad four-week span, Denver has been the worst team in the Western Conference.
Blame injuries for the team's woes. George Karl does. But the woes of a team playing bad basketball begin with the coach.
At midterm of this crazy, don't-blink NBA season, what grade should we give Karl?
Let's call it a D+.
It has not been a total failure for Karl.
But the coach is kidding himself if he thinks the only things ailing the Nuggets are the nagging injuries to forward Danilo Gallinari and center Nene. This is a team that has let the thin air out of its home-court advantage. The Nuggets have forgotten how to hold a fourth-quarter lead. For a banged-up team, Karl seems confused by a surplus of big men and doles out their playing time on a whim.
With the Nuggets headed to the all-star break sitting in ninth place in the conference standings, I asked Karl to evaluate the performance of himself and his coaching staff.
"It's a lockout year," Karl said. "It's a year where I don't want to really look at myself during the year, because I look at what I've got to do tomorrow."
The 18-17 record does not surprise Karl. But he knows it means the Nuggets will have little or no margin for error during the stretch run.
"I wish we would have had a little buffer," Karl said. "I'm not panicking either way. I mean there have been games I've been disappointed how I've done my job, and there are other games we as a coaching staff have gone above and beyond what we're capable of doing."
Since Jan. 28, Denver has lost 12 of 16 games. Sure, the team has been hurt. But what's more worrisome is how the Nuggets have hurt themselves. Five of the losses were suffered before the talent core became seriously depleted. The slump started with an annoying tendency to blow fourth-quarter leads. For a team that prides itself on
Leyba, The Denver Post
sharing the basketball, too many players seem uncertain what to do with the rock when they get it.
While Karl's response to the meltdown has ranged from a don't-worry, be-happy song to rolled eyes at any suggestion of deep flaws, the losses have hit as hard as a knockout blow to the ego. Within the walls of the Nuggets' front office, there's no longer solid confidence this team is ready in 2012 to challenge the top teams in the West.
Oklahoma City looks as scary as Kevin Durant, the league's deadliest scorer. San Antonio stubbornly stays strong despite the decline of Tim Duncan and the frequent absence of Manu Ginobili. The Los Angeles Clippers, of all teams, have become as steady as the hand of MVP candidate Chris Paul. And the Dallas Mavericks now appear they won't surrender their NBA championship without a fight.
During the slide, there's no doubt Denver has lost its mojo. The challenge of this condensed season is there are few practices and even fewer off days to halt a downward spiral and reset.
"My gut says it's going to be a heck of a run," Karl said. "I think the second half is going to be extremely important to re-establish home court, re-establish and regroup our defense, and understand the things that bring confidence to us. One of them is intensity; the other one is passing the ball to each other.
"Our pick-and-roll defense is not the worst in the league, but it's chaotic right now. How we straighten that out without practicing
a lot will be a commitment by the coaches, and the players have got to figure it out."
Guard Arron Afflalo was asked if he remains confident the Nuggets could again be one of the top four teams in the West when the roster returns to full health.
"Yes," he confidently replied.
After beating cancer and dealing with the fallout from Carmelo Anthony's trade demands, Karl richly deserved the three-year contract extension he received last season.
Now, it's time for the coach to earn all that money.
It's far from a certainty the Nuggets will make the playoffs.
If they don't, it's on Karl.
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