Houston at Denver

Post #1 » by **The Rebel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:55 am

Houston up 4 with 5 minutes left in the 1st quarter.

eathb_au · Post #2 » by **eathb_au** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:01 am

First Nuggets game in a while as Shaw promised a change in rotation.

Not sure if DA at the 3, Brickson at the 4 makes it worth watching. Disappointed that Hickson is still in the rotation.

eathb_au · Post #3 » by **eathb_au** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:03 am

I am please however, with Nurkic playing as the backup 5.

eathb_au · Post #4 » by **eathb_au** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:05 am

Nurkic-Hickson-DA-Gallo-Lawson

This is the craziest lineup I have ever seen.

Ghost · Post #5 » by **Ghost** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:17 am

GALLLLLOOO. 3. Bang. And-1.

eathb_au · Post #6 » by **eathb_au** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:31 am

Hopefully Nurkic giving Dwight a baptisim is enough to convince Shaw to play Nurkic regularly.

youngthegiant · Post #7 » by **youngthegiant** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:06 am

If Nurkic got 20-25 minutes a night, he could make a case for rookie of the year.

eathb_au · Post #8 » by **eathb_au** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:30 am

Typical.

Coach giving up on the lineups that plays well and Lawson disappearing again/burning out.

josh_nuggets · Post #9 » by **josh_nuggets** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:35 am

youngthegiant wrote:If Nurkic got 20-25 minutes a night, he could make a case for rookie of the year.

ugh shaw just wants to play hickson and faried and arthur at center, no one over 6ft9 ugugughhhhh

inquisitive · Post #10 » by **inquisitive** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:35 am

good game...you guys were tough...nurkic looks like he is going to be a very good player in the near future

Post #11 » by **The Rebel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:16 pm

You know the last time we saw Eric Green he looked like a decent enough combo guard to be the backup PG until Nate or Foye get healthy, but Shaw would rather play Lawson 100 minutes a night, after all who wants an effective PG for the last few minutes of the 4th and overtime?

Since Lawson was obviously so tired I can understand letting someone else try to create a play from the 3 point line when the game is on the line, but I do not understand letting your PF with limited handles and vision be that guy, yet that seems to be the plays Shaw drew up coming out of time out, not only 1 but 2 plays back to back with Faried being the 1 trying to create offense, despite the fact Gallo, Afflalo, and Chandler were all on the court at the time.

Did anybody notice how Montie and Howard tore up Hickson and Mozgov on the 13th? I guess Shaw did not notice that, as that is the lineup he tried to end the game with. Meaning while Nurkic who had given both guys fits in both games is sitting on the bench, guess he did not want to risk that 6th foul in case the game went into double overtime?

I have another idea, why dont they just switch every play so that the rockets and Harden can find the bad defender on the court and take advantage of that guy. No reason to keep Chandler or Arthur on him, they only slowed him way down most of the 2nd half.

I place this loss on Shaw, there is no way around it, the coaching in the 2nd half and overtime was some of the worst I have seen from a NBA head coach.

skywalker33 · Post #12 » by **skywalker33** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:26 pm

The Rebel wrote:I place this loss on Shaw, there is no way around it, the coaching in the 2nd half and overtime was some of the worst I have seen from a NBA head coach.

Gotta agree with this, Shaw may be an awesome player development asst coach, but he isn't a head coach, he gets out-coached every night !

StunnaStan · Post #13 » by **StunnaStan** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:52 pm

yesterday marked the 2nd nuggets game ive ever missed since i started following this team in 03. the other game i missed was because i had a final exam in the morning. yesterdays game, i chose not to watch.

i have my handful of players i dislike on this roster, but my dislike for brian shaw surpasses all of the players combined. from what i read, nurkic seemed to have had a decent game yet we resorted to playing the 6'9 6'8 boys for our bigs. brian shaw is the ONLYYYYYYYYY coach that would put darell arthur at 3. if we had maureece speights, he'd play him at small foward to i bet. danilo had a good game but if my estimations are right, he'll regress next game like always.

to wrap this up, i bleed light blue and yellow, but as long as these rotations keep up, ill keep indulging myself in ps4. first thing i do in 2k when i start my association is fire brian shaw

StunnaStan · Post #14 » by **StunnaStan** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:55 pm

when kobe misses jumpers, you think to yourself "damn thats a tough shot with a hand in his face". when danilo misses jumpers, you think to yourself "damn danilo"

Post #15 » by **The Rebel** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:36 am

i can see why someone would be complaining about Gallo last night, I mean he only put up 16 points on 8 shots, how dare he shoot,

StunnaStan · Post #16 » by **StunnaStan** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:51 pm

yeah rebel your right. if danilo can do what he did last game for the next 22 games, it'll raise his fg% from 33% to a whopping 42%...

Post #17 » by **The Rebel** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:42 pm

StunnaStan wrote:yeah rebel your right. if danilo can do what he did last game for the next 22 games, it'll raise his fg% from 33% to a whopping 42%...

42% and great defense is nothing to sneeze at, and would put him right back where he has always been as a well above average efficiency scorer. But why would a team want that?