Pistons @Nuggets

[The Rebel]

Half their team is still hurt. And they lost the best player on that 57 win team.

They lost Iguodala but they have AA this year that I think is better that Andre.

Plus who is hurt on their team this year?

Gallo is still obviously hurt. He has no confidence in that leg. McGee is still on restriction. Nate is still recovering.

And AA <<<<<<<<<<< AI. AI is an all-star and olympian.

There is a reason every publication has them missing the playoffs again. The west is stacked. Who do you think Denver is leapfrogging? None of the playoff teams from last year went away

The only person that thinks Igoudala was the best player on that Nuggets team did not watch that Nuggets team, even george Karl has been quoted numerous times that Gallo was our best defender, and if you actually go read some of the game threads from that season you will see that most were highly disappointed in Iggy and thought it was very arguable that he was not even a top 3 player on the team, there were threads all over message boards begging the Nuggets to trade him before people figured out how overrated he has become. Hell the Nuggets defense was below average that year until Wilson Chandler got back from his injury, where they moved to 8th, and dropped back to 11th after gallo got hurt.

Speaking of Gallo he is 100% healthy physically, now it is just mental, and if you have ever played sports, you know that it can be 1 game or 100 before you realize that you are fine, and than you are back to being a good player. Robinson is a backup PG, and is not that important, and maybe you missed things, but the Nuggets have a heck of a rookie Center to share with McGee until he gets 100%.

As for the national reporters, like you they are more impressed with names, and they look at last years results without taking the time to figure out why on any team. Every year in recent history 2 teams drop out of the playoffs and 2 teams get into the playoffs in the western conference, there are injuries, there are teams that get worse on paper, and there are teams that get worse on the court. To decide that a team that won 57 games 2 years ago, and had 300 games missed due to injury are an automatic lotto team this year shows more about the people saying that then it does about the Nuggets.

[BadMofoPimp]

Plus, Denver got Afflalo this year which is a massive upgrade at the SG position.

[whitehops]

my goodness there are a lot of negative people in here. i'll post some of the positives here:

- defense was good overall. SVG kept saying during training camp that he was stressing getting back on defense quickly and you could tell what a difference that made as it was a real halfcourt slugfest. Denver likes to play with a lot of pace and we made them play our game.
- SVG played augustin the entire fourth quarter and only played Jennings 20 minutes total. while I think the offense was better when Jennings was in (defense was better with augustin in) it shows that SVG isn't hesitant to play whoever is hot.
- smith played very well I think. some of the shots he took weren't ideal but if he didn't take them then what other options were there? SVG has said that he doesn't mind smith taking those shots if it's in the right situation and I think it fit the situation most of the time last night. smith drove to the rim a fair share too.
- Drummond had an underwhelming game but showed some good improvement. i'll let the video do the talking:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8K93z16j5k[/youtube]

[StunnaStan]

lol ok pistons fans arent dumb, but you get my point. As far as looking at your 3 past championship banners, dont take your eyes of those banners or you'll see the score lol. hopefully josh smith hoist up more long range shots inside the 3pt line tonight

[DBC10]

http://instagram.com/p/ux98WpnmH9/?utm_ ... modal=true

Faried dropping some truths.

[detroitKG]

http://instagram.com/p/ux98WpnmH9/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=video&modal=true

Faried dropping some truths.

Imagine that even the players get it..too bad some on here still don't. Oh well.


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[MotownMadness]

Lol, Faried is the man. And yes Smith and Jennings both are notorious for shooting themselves out of games. They literally cannot have a good game because they never know when to stop. Last year I watched Jennings do it too himself numerous of times. If he starts to get hot then we are in trouble because then he thinks he has a green light to keep shooting until were screwed. They are both just too terrible for words.

[Sort]

I'm absolutely delighted to see transition defense, even with Josh Smith chucking shots. The offense and ball movement should come, especially at home for such a young team.

I don't care what anyone else says in the negative sense - and I agree with some of them - the Pistons played transition D! Holly cow! Denver was frustrated, ticked on offense.

In terms of building blocks for the season, that's a solid first step against a quality team on their home opener.

[nomansland]

piston fans are dumb. Denver is FARRRRR from a lottery team when healthy. Javale mcgee played 4 games and danilo played ZERO games last season. Ty lawson missed 20 games, nate robinson and hickson missed about 30 games a piece with torn acl's and wilson chandler didnt play towards the end of the season. and when we had hickson, we were playing him at center instead of his real position of pf. i remember he still dunked all over you guys though.

If the pistons had the same injuries at the same positions we had last year i wonder how they would do. my guess would be #1 pick. That means that Andre Drummond would have played 4 games, josh smith played ZERO, Jennings misses 20, silva misses 30, Jerekko starts in place of drummond, kyle singler misses last month and a half of the season.

have fun with the rest of your loser season scrubs.

dude...

I agree the lotto comment was uninformed but, really?

[theBigLip]

Watched the World Series last night, not our game, but looking at some clips and the boxscore...

- Great that we have Augustine. We need a viable option to Jennings. I think Jennings will listen much better now that he realizes that he isn't the only PG on the team.
- We missed Monroe.
- I cringed when I saw Smith's boxscore, but with no Meeks, Monroe and KCP shooting like he did, I guess we didn't have a choice.
- Seems like we missed Meeks too. I can't believe what KCP did. And unlike SMith, KCP is suppose to keep shooting since he is our future SG. But it would be nice to have Meeks and share the time, and play whoever is hot. Obviously, that wasn't KCP last night.
- Last but not least, Drummond needs to get his mojo going. He can have a lot of potential, but he has to do it every night. He obviously wasn't doing it last night.


I'm still optimistic for making the playoffs. Monroe and Meeks will help.

[Billl]

They lost Iguodala but they have AA this year that I think is better that Andre.

Plus who is hurt on their team this year?

Gallo is still obviously hurt. He has no confidence in that leg. McGee is still on restriction. Nate is still recovering.

And AA <<<<<<<<<<< AI. AI is an all-star and olympian.

There is a reason every publication has them missing the playoffs again. The west is stacked. Who do you think Denver is leapfrogging? None of the playoff teams from last year went away

The only person that thinks Igoudala was the best player on that Nuggets team did not watch that Nuggets team, even george Karl has been quoted numerous times that Gallo was our best defender, and if you actually go read some of the game threads from that season you will see that most were highly disappointed in Iggy and thought it was very arguable that he was not even a top 3 player on the team, there were threads all over message boards begging the Nuggets to trade him before people figured out how overrated he has become. Hell the Nuggets defense was below average that year until Wilson Chandler got back from his injury, where they moved to 8th, and dropped back to 11th after gallo got hurt.

Speaking of Gallo he is 100% healthy physically, now it is just mental, and if you have ever played sports, you know that it can be 1 game or 100 before you realize that you are fine, and than you are back to being a good player. Robinson is a backup PG, and is not that important, and maybe you missed things, but the Nuggets have a heck of a rookie Center to share with McGee until he gets 100%.

As for the national reporters, like you they are more impressed with names, and they look at last years results without taking the time to figure out why on any team. Every year in recent history 2 teams drop out of the playoffs and 2 teams get into the playoffs in the western conference, there are injuries, there are teams that get worse on paper, and there are teams that get worse on the court. To decide that a team that won 57 games 2 years ago, and had 300 games missed due to injury are an automatic lotto team this year shows more about the people saying that then it does about the Nuggets.

I never said the nuggets were an automatic lotto team by the end of the year. It is indisputable fact that the nuggets are currently a lotto team - just like the pistons. Either could be in the playoffs this year, but currently are lotto teams. You HOPE to improve. Great. You might. It's a talented roster top to bottom. You've got guys coming off injuries though and lost an olympian from when the team was actually good. Until the team actually proves it on the court, they are a lotto team. It sucks, but being a piston fan, I've had to come to grips with that as well. We can talk up how much were are going to improve with good coaching, but until we actually do it, it's just talk.

[haulerch]

Denver is definitely a good and deep team, let's put that to rest.

More on Smith:
-He drove a ton, kicked the ball out but shooters were missing.
-He may have taken 20+ shots, but look at the numerous times that he passed only to have it kicked back to him. And at least three of those shots came after he had it kicked back to him twice on the same possession.
-I can't think of many times he straight came down and jacked a shot.
-Pg's did a terrible job with ball movement, and the only real shot creator was Smith. Assists don't tell the story.
-Awareness of shot clock was disgusting too.
-He took a charge, played good D on a night when refs were whistle happy, and had some blocks.

We would have been blown out if not for Smith and DJ.

[RexRyan]

Anthony and Jerebko played 35 minutes - if Monroe plays, he takes 25 of them, plus 5 from Smith. Pistons probably win. We'll be fine.

[Manocad]

piston fans are dumb. Denver is FARRRRR from a lottery team when healthy. Javale mcgee played 4 games and danilo played ZERO games last season. Ty lawson missed 20 games, nate robinson and hickson missed about 30 games a piece with torn acl's and wilson chandler didnt play towards the end of the season. and when we had hickson, we were playing him at center instead of his real position of pf. i remember he still dunked all over you guys though.

If the pistons had the same injuries at the same positions we had last year i wonder how they would do. my guess would be #1 pick. That means that Andre Drummond would have played 4 games, josh smith played ZERO, Jennings misses 20, silva misses 30, Jerekko starts in place of drummond, kyle singler misses last month and a half of the season.

have fun with the rest of your loser season scrubs.

If you are going to come onto our forum to attack us personally and our team, don't come at all.

Guys, give him the attention he deserves....none. And if you're really that sore about it, report it, don't lash back.

Wipe his posts out so there's nothing to respond to. Or edit them to read "I am 12 years old and am fighting a losing battle with skid marks."