Will the Nuggets walk through the door OKC opened?

Powder Blue · Post #1 » by **Powder Blue** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:06 am

James Harden is gone. In his place is Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and draft picks. Now the draft picks are good, OKC has a shot to be better long term but they won't be better in the short term.

Question is will the Nuggets take advantage? Personally I was disappointed in the preseason and I'm not sure the team can just turn it on and play well in 4 days. It's not like football where the whole bench is in and the play calling is simple. All the road games scare me. GK said he'd be emphasizing defense in camp and I didn't see it at all in the preseason.

The preseason has me thinking expectations might be too high for the Nuggets this year...even with James Harden in Houston.

Powder Blue · Post #2 » by **Powder Blue** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:23 am

And does this affect Lawson's deal?

tatertotsnjuice · Post #3 » by **tatertotsnjuice** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:09 pm

Are you guys really starting Kosta at center?

Post #4 » by **corona** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:16 pm

yep, he's been the most solid/consistent of the 3. great rebounder too.

maljanNBAfan · Post #5 » by **maljanNBAfan** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:43 pm

Powder Blue wrote:James Harden is gone. In his place is Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and draft picks. Now the draft picks are good, OKC has a shot to be better long term but they won't be better in the short term.

Question is will the Nuggets take advantage? Personally I was disappointed in the preseason and I'm not sure the team can just turn it on and play well in 4 days. It's not like football where the whole bench is in and the play calling is simple. All the road games scare me. GK said he'd be emphasizing defense in camp and I didn't see it at all in the preseason.

The preseason has me thinking expectations might be too high for the Nuggets this year...even with James Harden in Houston.

I was also quite disappointed in what I saw this preseason. You're right when you say this isn't like football -- a team doesn't just snap out of a funk and snap into the game overnight. Let's hope that the "emphasis on defense during camp" starts to show now that the regular season is beginning.

the plan · Post #6 » by **the plan** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:13 am

tatertotsnjuice wrote:Are you guys really starting Kosta at center?

He does seem to do better with the lob passes from Andre Miller in the second unit. *shrug*

I think he has a little while before he can put some polish the stuff Hakeem gave him to do I saw a little in the last preseason game though which gives me hope for the future.