"With the team we've got, the way we've been playing, I really think we can win nine games before we lose four games," Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony said. "That's possible. That would be great for us, especially going into the (all-star) break, and coming out of the break. We're on pace to do it."
Gee Carmelo Anthony, the regular season is a lot of fun, isn't it. And it's a lot easier to win their than in the playoffs, isn't it. Carmelo Anthony, you seem to get a little younger psychologically every year! I think you may have spent too much time near J.R. Smith, laugh out loud!
And George Karl, like Melo in a feel good mood from all the unexpected Nuggets winning this regular season, was quoted in the same article as follows:
"But I like how we're playing. We respond well when we lose. We have better basketball IQ than we've ever had. So, as I've said many times this year, I trust this team."
Well Mr. George Karl, here is a Denver team that no doubt had a higher IQ than your team. They were 8th seed and beat the 1st seed Supersonics because, for one thing, they had an extremely high basketball IQ, higher than that of the Sonics, who were coached by, ...let me think a minute, oh, they were coached by you, George Karl. You coached the first seed losers! Um George, do you really think any team that you coach will ever have the higher basketball IQ in a playoff series?
It's more and more turning my stomach to see how Karl and Carmelo Anthony have become two peas in a pod with respect to glorifying the regular season and not saying (or doing) much of anything about the playoffs.
Especially since Super Bowl unofficial winner Larry Fitzgerald, all-pro wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals, recently accurately observed that in sports the regular season does not mean jack if you are truly a great athlete or coach. It doesn't amount to a hill of beans, or a bag of chips if you prefer. Regular season statistics including how many wins and how many losses are just footnotes in the media guide, to borrow the words of Fitz.
The regular season is first and foremost for figuring out and practicing how you are going to win in the playoffs. Celebrating and hyping in the media the exact number of wins you are getting in the regular season is disturbing because anyone and any team that does it has missed one of the most important points about pro basketball and sports in general, the point that Larry Fitzgerald got.
As for summarizing the Nuggets and many of their fans in general these days, as shown so well by the quotes above, I'll let a picture do the talking:
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