With All Due Respect for Ty

[pickaxe]

Would you rather be 6th man of the year on a championship run team Nuggets, or starting point guard for a mediocre bottom dwelling Nuggets?

You have to take this with a little humility, because Ty is clearly a starting point guard. But becoming more frustrated in this position may not be the best way forward.

So, give Ty a tiny break in a year where technically he is posting career numbers at times. Make him the leader of the second unit to get that unit in order. He can handle it. It also takes unneeded pressure off of him while we're figuring this out.

Put Jameer in as starting point guard. He's a fresh set of eyes, has fresh motivation to make his new situation work right, and already has natural leadership skills that have come from many playoff runs. Maybe he can make sense of it.

Worst case scenario he ends up butting heads with Shaw and we find that there's a pattern. Best case scenario we figure out what's going on and are in a winning spirit again.

When you're in that winning spirit it becomes much easier to see the way forward.

[pickaxe]

I know, I know, you can't move down if you're starting caliber. But then again, if you believe in winning enough it never really matters who is playing starter and who is backup so long as the result is a W.

[Nuggets18]

worst idea ever. start jameer and bring ty of the bench?

[The Rebel]

Why the hell would you want to bring the teams best player off the bench? Ty is not the problem with this team, and bringing him off the bench just to see what Nelson will do with Shaw is a waste of time.

[skywalker33]

Your idea of Ty coming off the bench is CRAP, I'm beginning to believe you just throw stuff out there to get a reaction . Ty's production would be severely repressed by doing that....enough said

[pickaxe]

The psychology is right on with this notion though. You'd never actually do this. But you need something to grip onto when play is uninspiring.

So let it be a ridiculous notion.

Why has it been so hard for the team to respect what Ty has been doing? You guys get it.

[pickaxe]

Let me modify this suggestion a bit.

Imagine Ty starting every other game through the month of March. He gets a full game to sit on the bench and analyze what he needs to do to have an impact on the game. Pure perspective. He's there, at the game, but in analysis mode more than pressure mode. The pressure would be instead to see clearly where the disconnects are - and with a more lively feel than tape.

Jameer takes some of that pressure off temporarily and at the same time provides a fresh outlook. (he's doing that now, but in theory we should accelerate it)

We're not going to the playoffs, but we have time to put some serious thought into strategy.

You HAVE to have a clear way forward.

[skywalker33]

Psychology doesn't always work with millionaire athletes.

[StunnaStan]

Or we could just trade them both. I agree ty Lawson might be a 6th man pg on a championship team, but as you know, the nuggets are farrr from that. Is starting Nelson supposed to make the team better or worse? Because if it makes us better, wouldn't that be redundant considering we aren't making the playoffs? We'd only make our Draft pick worse than it already is.

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[pickaxe]

Psychology doesn't always work with millionaire athletes.

It does if it's the only way forward.

Give someone a choice, they are clearly going to take the easy road.

And no I am not posting just to get a reaction. Throwing ideas out there 99% of them won't even be touched. But it does lead to other ideas, which end up being very good.

Being so stuck with a losing lineup and no solutions, and stuck in our ways, we get the same result night in night out.

Low risk, low reward.