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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#21 » by pickaxe » Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:53 am

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MeloTelfair wrote:Does anyone know why JR isn't playing? And why he's been getting DNPs?

Lost his slot after missing shoot around one night, and forbes playing so well that night and since


The Forbes contributions ended early on in this game. This is why we have rotations.....so the good play can be revisited more than 1-2 times. Now JR & Forbes are playing about equal.

It would seem that if Forbes played tonight as he had been playing that this game would have been a win. I don't think Karl checked the meter.

This is not a chess game lost, this is a checker game lost.
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#22 » by eathb_au » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:02 am

I think the rotation could use a change. I would start Al:

Nene (33) / Harrington (15)
Harrington (15) / Shelden (21) / Melo (12)
Melo (25) / JR (8) / Forbes (15)
Afflalo (30) / JR (18)
Billups (25) / Lawson (23)
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#23 » by The Rebel » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:05 am

eathb_au wrote:I think the rotation could use a change. I would start Al and not use Shelden at all:

Nene (33) / Harrington (15)
Harrington (15) / Shelden (21) / Melo (12)
Melo (25) / JR (8) / Forbes (15)
Afflalo (30) / JR (18)
Billups (25) / Lawson (23)

Melo supposedly does not want to even play PF so I doubt he would be okay with Williams being benched.

Other then that, i don't think the rotation change will do anything. I hate to say it but this team seems to be losing their chemistry and all playing more for stats then wins. rotations is not going to change that, they either need ot refocus and get on the same page, or the team needs to be blown up.
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#24 » by eathb_au » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:16 am

Ya I agree.

Not the best time to be a Nuggets fan right now. Feels like the Iverson days when there was just no hope.
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#25 » by pickaxe » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:36 am

The Rebel wrote:
eathb_au wrote:I think the rotation could use a change. I would start Al and not use Shelden at all:

Nene (33) / Harrington (15)
Harrington (15) / Shelden (21) / Melo (12)
Melo (25) / JR (8) / Forbes (15)
Afflalo (30) / JR (18)
Billups (25) / Lawson (23)

Melo supposedly does not want to even play PF so I doubt he would be okay with Williams being benched.

Other then that, i don't think the rotation change will do anything. I hate to say it but this team seems to be losing their chemistry and all playing more for stats then wins. rotations is not going to change that, they either need ot refocus and get on the same page, or the team needs to be blown up.


It ain't easy to get that chemistry even if you blow up the team....it's always a crap shoot. Thing is.....even last season there was tons of hope but they just wouldn't add the one or two bigs to push the team over the top. This season you got to follow the same formula but realise you got those one or two bigs.

Yeah I know it's a pain to keep hoping for the perfect storm but the right chemistry is there it is that every time the formula works someone does something (Please Use More Appropriate Word) and they have to decide if they want to get it going again. GK benching JR for too long (5 mins this game would have worked!) is the latest (Please Use More Appropriate Word) move by the team.

But we still have Chris Andersen coming on and Kenyon is still invested fully in making it happen. People just got to have patience and let it play out. I'd rather have a formula hanging around that will work then bring in a whole new formula....and look, by the end of the season if they don't get it together then that's the time to do it.

Little things like tonight just make it drag out though. No doubt they need to play together to stay together.
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#26 » by Nugologist » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:47 pm

Tough loss. Anyone else curious about Chauncey's decision to pull up and take a semi-contested 3 from like 6 feet beyond the arc with a little over 10 seconds on the clock? He's playing really bad lately.
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#27 » by The Rebel » Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:05 pm

Nugologist wrote:Tough loss. Anyone else curious about Chauncey's decision to pull up and take a semi-contested 3 from like 6 feet beyond the arc with a little over 10 seconds on the clock? He's playing really bad lately.

Antoine Walker told him there was going to be a 4 point line?
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#28 » by pickaxe » Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:46 pm

Nugologist wrote:Tough loss. Anyone else curious about Chauncey's decision to pull up and take a semi-contested 3 from like 6 feet beyond the arc with a little over 10 seconds on the clock? He's playing really bad lately.


Logically Chauncey should be sitting instead of JR. JR has plenty of energy to burn. Chauncey has tired legs.
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#29 » by RRFB » Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:18 am

Karl needs to pull his head out of his ass. Two losses while teaching Jr a lesson is enough.

Regardless of the no-call on Afflalo at the end, Chauncey royally **** us over with that pull-up three. I'm sick of watching him try to be a hero and end up screwing us over like that.
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Re: Denver @ Portland 

Post#30 » by FOCUS2010 » Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:33 pm

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