Game 9: Denver Nuggets (6-2) @ Milwaukee Bucks (3-2)

[pickaxe]

Well, the FGAs balanced back out with us getting 88 and I think Bucks gettings 82....at least we had shots......and then the question would be were they good shots and did we find the open man?

The rebounding is still anemic. It's ok to lose the rebounding battle if your FG% is high and you're winning, but if it's a close one to a lesser team and your shooting is atrocious you have to match rebound for rebound.

How many games have we only seen rebounds in the 30s.....Melo did more than his part with 10 rebounds, but it then gets anemic with Kenyon, Nene and Birdman all getting 7 apiece.

At least Camby got 15 rebounds on nights like this....and we still had our token big men to grab 6 or 7 each to round it out.

Look......we need one of those guys, preferrably Nene to step up and grab those rebounds big every night.....at least 12 a night. If it's going to be a split we really should aim for like 9 a piece between the four big men....that's still only 36. There's got to be more.

[JoeyMorgan619]

Some of you that are saying "it's the f'in Bucks!" look at what they're doing this year before you start off on all that. They are number one in defense and rebounding, and first in their division. Give them some credit.

[Nuggetsfanduh98]

I was working tonight...So unfortunately i could not catch the game... Does'nt appear i missed much? What were the Strong points? Weak Points? JR shake off the rust?

[MHZ]

Some of you that are saying "it's the f'in Bucks!" look at what they're doing this year before you start off on all that. They are number one in defense and rebounding, and first in their division. Give them some credit.

First in their division is meaningless when you've played six games. Congrats to the Bucks, they earned the win tonight. Jennings was awesome. The fact is, Denver always loses in Milwaukee (three years in a row now), and Milwaukee hasn't been good the last two years. For whatever reason, they just suck when they go there.

I'm all for Milwaukee being good this year, I hope they are.

[almost famous]

Some of you that are saying "it's the f'in Bucks!" look at what they're doing this year before you start off on all that. They are number one in defense and rebounding, and first in their division. Give them some credit.

No need to be so sensitive. Look what we did last year and look what you guys did... I think we have the right to vent. The season just started. Your stats are meaningless.

I never understood the obsession with patrolling the opposing team's board. Why do people care what others say?

[JoeyMorgan619]

Some of you that are saying "it's the f'in Bucks!" look at what they're doing this year before you start off on all that. They are number one in defense and rebounding, and first in their division. Give them some credit.

No need to be so sensitive. Look what we did last year and look what you guys did... I think we have the right to vent. The season just started. Your stats are meaningless.

I never understood the obsession with patrolling the opposing team's board. Why do people care what others say?

I wasn't being sensitive. As for what you said, this isn't last year. Our focal point on offense wasn't even on our team last year. How are the stats meaningless anyways? Six games is still a nice little sample of what we've been able to do, even if two of the games were against the Wolves and the Knicks. As for "patrolling" the opposing teams board, I do it just to get an opinion coming from the other side of the tracks.

[eathy]

I don't really care if the Bucks are 9-0 tbh.

Pathetic game.

Dumbass fouling sequence at the end as well. Needed to off ball foul Bogut, not let Jennings run the time down and foul him.

[pickaxe]

Some of you that are saying "it's the f'in Bucks!" look at what they're doing this year before you start off on all that. They are number one in defense and rebounding, and first in their division. Give them some credit.

No need to be so sensitive. Look what we did last year and look what you guys did... I think we have the right to vent. The season just started. Your stats are meaningless.

I never understood the obsession with patrolling the opposing team's board. Why do people care what others say?

I wasn't being sensitive. As for what you said, this isn't last year. Our focal point on offense wasn't even on our team last year. How are the stats meaningless anyways? Six games is still a nice little sample of what we've been able to do, even if two of the games were against the Wolves and the Knicks. As for "patrolling" the opposing teams board, I do it just to get an opinion coming from the other side of the tracks.

We just can't be making excuses going into a home game vs. the Lakers. Give credit to the Bucks, but the kind of team the Nuggets want to be we need to be able to beat Bucks up to the Lakers and there are certain consistent elements in our losses that are easily correctable and haven't been corrected yet. The Lakers would just exploit those weaknesses all night.

If the Bucks were facing the hot Nuggets team I'm sorry, this game's effort would not have been enough. The Nuggets are that good. We're all for your team being successful from here on though! Work over some of the NW Division teams for us.

[and one]

Dang jennings looked like a stud out there. I dont know about you guys but melo looks like he's forcing a lot of hard shots up lately (9-25). But then again the refs were pretty bad. We had plenty of chances to put it away but we kept missing them open shots. Time to move on to the Lakers.

[almost famous]

I never said stats were meaningless in general. There are too many factors in a season to say who is right or wrong. If you would like to value 6 games worth of stats, do so, but don't expect the world to share your logic. That's as far as I'll go with that.

I didn't say the Bucks were a weak team or share that opinion. I actually like your team's future. It's just one fan venting. I understand the interest, but there's no need to step into an opposing team's board of activated fans and tell them they don't know what they're talking about. True or not, it's just annoying.

[JoeyMorgan619]

We just can't be making excuses going into a home game vs. the Lakers. Give credit to the Bucks, but the kind of team the Nuggets want to be we need to be able to beat Bucks up to the Lakers and there are certain consistent elements in our losses that are easily correctable and haven't been corrected yet. The Lakers would just exploit those weaknesses all night.

If the Bucks were facing the hot Nuggets team I'm sorry, this game's effort would not have been enough. The Nuggets are that good. We're all for your team being successful from here on though! Work over some of the NW Division teams for us.

I agree with you on where the Nuggets want to be (and should be), they should be able to beat this Bucks team. The Bucks have been a great defensive team thus far, but you guys have so many weapons and just plenty of overall offensive firepower. I guess you have to lose somewhere, though.

[Teens On Acid]

This is very disappointing.

The **** Bucks?

Easily the worst lost since the Nets blowout.

no.
give credit where it's due.
the bucks were the better team.

[KAVK]

Some teams are just hard to matched up against. Bucks been that team for us for a while! I still expecting Nene to man up! Kenyon still little shaky after that left knee injury.

Season starting schedule did no favors for us when J.R was suspended & we responded with decent record in first 7 games. Now seems he is shaken off the rust we should be looking forward to stay focused. LAL will be as tough as you can expects & after that we got nice line of schedule for a while.

As for those who are posting on opposing teams board. When team loses nobody will be in the mood to discuss the opposing teams success & when we go nuts over a comments it will be dessert after a nice meal to them.

[Cold Crush 24]

I expected the Nuggets to blow us out. First big loss of the season. Lawson matched Jennings' speed and I figured we wouldn't have enough fire power to keep up with Melo. It was a good game and pretty much down to the wire. Gotta love Melo and Bogut getting in eachothers faces.