wepainters wrote:wow, you people are underrating nuggets big time, while blazers are becoming the most overrated team in NBA. How are you gonna say they get worse with letting camby go? they gonna get back NENE, who is better defender than camby and can actually play his position, meaning staying under the basket and getting easy dunks from AI penetration. Thats how the bigs worked in philly. all camby did was take perimeter shots and block from the weakside. He always got killed 1 v 1 and NENE can actually body up Duncan and all other centers/forwards. Plus you add jr to the starting line up and denver may have the most talented line up in the L. Only if Karl knew what the hell he was doing this team would be top 5 in the L no doubt about it.
Melo needs to step his game up and show little heart. All he did last year was take 20ft jumpers instead of attacking the basket. He has to work on his D or atleast put some effort instead of letting people blow by him. He can be very good defender cuz of his size but he is too stupid to realize that.
K-Mart will still be a beast and play lock down D, run the floor for dunks and block shots. He'll just get better from his first season after knee surgeries.
AI is gonna be AI. He'll still score 25ppg with 8apg and hit some clutch shots, unlike melo who was blocked more times than he actually got the shot up last year in crunch time. Id love to see if him averaging 22 & 10 will be better for the win % but we have to wait and see what karl does with the line up.
It sux that they lost najera, the only played with heart on that team last year besides AI. Renaldo can fill up his role.
Seriously this non sense that blazers , clippers, warriors are gonna be better than denver is ridiculous. Denver will make the playoffs whether u like it or not, unless they trade AI.
1.) Denver doesn't play defense, especially as a team.
2.) Nene is the most unreliable player in the NBA.
3.) Nene isn't even good. 12/7/1 block in his best season in 6 years.
4.) AI is a chucker
5.) JR Smith is a chucker
6.) Melo is a chucker
7.) The team has no inside scoring threat.
8.) Yes, Nene does not count.
9.) They lost to the Blazers 3 times last year.
10.) They barely made the playoffs last year.
11.) Losing Camby does hurt the Nuggets.
12.) They did nothing to improve.
I can probably keep going...
