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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Return of Nuggets 1: Forum Comments From Late April 2008, Part 3

Forum commentary I did from March 2008 through July 2008, when I didn't have enough time for the detailed and extensive reports I like to do, is being posted in early October, 2008. The primary themes are how the Nuggets are blowing a great (and expensive!) opportunity to play the game of basketball in such a way that respects the sport and that takes as much advantage as possible of who they have on the roster. The 2006-09 Nuggets have turned out to be an excellent case study of how not to run a basketball team; many things you should not do if you are a basketball manager or coach can be identified from what the Nuggets actually did during these years.

In these comments, do not look for the usual huge amount of detail and proof that you see in the ordinary releases here at Nuggets 1. Some of this is more like everyday conversation than like top quality sports writing. On the other hand, some of the comments do include some detailed reasoning and proof that I pride myself on in the primary reports I release.
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LATE APRIL 2008 FORUM COMMENTARY ON THE NUGGETS, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THEIR MISTAKES

wangju, you need to find another team to be a fan of if you really believe everything you are saying. And I seriously wonder whether you are a plant, because I find it hard to believe that anyone would think that coaches have no abilities whatsoever to prevent what happened to the Nuggets this year.
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lol, the Nuggets are so easy to beat that Kobe Bryant looks bored and very well rested in his halftime quick sideline interview. What Kobe really wanted to say: "I don't know how the freak this team made it to the playoffs, but I'm glad we didn't have to break a sweat like we would have had it been the Warriors."
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I'm not in the mood to, nor do I have the time to explain my current sig. There is a very large amount of information and history that lies behind that signature that you have to know to understand if fully.

Let me just say for now that for anyone to blame the Nuggets fiasco on not having point guard capability on the roster is very lame.
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Melo with the JR style dunk miss. I guess he must be drinking too much.
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I doubt any team that won 50 or more games ever failed to win a single playoff game, so the Nuggets need to win this game to avoid that legacy. On the other hand when you want new coaches as badly as I do.....
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I hate Larry Brown, because he is the one most responsible for AI's bad habits. Among many other failures, Brown also failed to bring home the gold in the 2004 Olympics. I guess he won't be in charge of team USA this year as a result of his failures, huh? I think Melo's old Syracuse coach is coaching the Olympics team this year, isn't he?
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Yes, they just said it on TNT. The Nuggets are the one and only NBA team in history to have won 50 or more games and yet failed to win a single playoff game!

Congratulations to everyone who knew a year ago about how this season was going to go. I guess we are the Nuggets winners tonight, even though we didn't want to win.
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At least now there can never again be any doubt that GK failed as a playoff coach in the NBA. The top seed Sonics, coached by GK, losing to the 8th seed Nuggets in '94 was not a fluke!
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EXTREMELY IMPORTANT COMMENT MADE BY ANOTHER FORUM PERSON AFTER THE NUGGETS WERE SWEPT BY THE LAKERS:
It shows that this team lacks a singularity, focus, vision, leadership. It's just so ovbious. That comes from a coach, always. All great players who win championships play within a a concept. Yeah, we def. need a pg to get that across.

But you see in spurts tonight when we play together how good we can be.

There are just so many directions and confusion. A bad coach let's that go on a good coach finds a way to bring it together.


He about said it all, so I said: "100% true and on point."
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