Official 2012 Offseason Thread

[patrol345]

Didn't faried own david lee last year? Why would we want his 12 million a year contract so we can't resign lawson?

[The Rebel]

http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/nuggets ... ncy-miller

Nuggets signed Q Miller today

[CaptainFanchini]

Gallo was very good in the italian 8-0 in the Euro2013 qualifications; nothing dominant, but very valuable (see rebounding).

PPG 15.1
RPG 6.8
BPG 0.6


http://www.eurobasket2013.org/en/cid_8X ... D_307.html

[corona]

6-7 more weeks? 1st preseason game in 3 weeks....

whens training camp start? im out of touch, but can't wait for the season.

[The Rebel]

“He’s a big guy with a lot of agility and very skilled,” Olajuwon said of McGee. “He’s long, he can handle. I mean, he has all the tools. He created his own [moves]. He mastered all the moves. Now he’ll put in moves to create space and finish. He should be able to dominate the league. It’s up to him how high he wants to go.”

The fact that McGee spent three weeks with Olajuwon, training for three hours each day, shows he wants to go very high. That’s the longest time a player has ever spent working out one-on-one with Olajuwon at the gymnasium on his 400-acre ranch outside of Houston. Bryant’s famous workout with Olajuwon lasted just four hours, James’ a few days, Howard’s a week, and Amare Stoudemire’s two-and-a-half weeks.


Since completing his workouts with Olajuwon in late August, McGee, who was joined during his training with Olajuwon by teammate Kenneth Faried for a week, has been in Denver working out with the team.


“He does have the tools, but he has a long way to go,” said Ujiri, who, like Olajuwon, is a native of Nigeria. “We got him because we felt he had tools. But it’s not going to happen overnight. It takes big guys time to make that jump to become prominent in the NBA. But he runs the floor, he’s athletic, he’s got long arms, great length, big hands, and his skills aren’t bad. He’s just got to get more comfortable with what he does and more disciplined in what he does.”

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/ ... 012-13-nba

I knew Hakeem had made some nice comments on Javalle right after the workouts, but some of the details he reportedly said are great. It is also interesting that McGee spent more time working with Olajuwon then anyone of his summer training sessions, both Kobe and Lebron had big improvements in their post game after limited work, it will be interesting to see how much Mcgee has improved.

Also nice to know that he has not caused any problems with the coaches or teammates since he joined the Nuggets.

[Powder Blue]

Camp starts on the 2nd... First game a month later. Interested to see if the addition of iggy and the subtraction of AAA and Big Al equal a better squad.

Expect to be a weak 3 pt shooting team and I doubt the D improves THAT much.

Will Ty and Gallo step it up a notch?
Can Chandler be our solid 6th man?
Can McGee be consistent?
Who's gonna get hurt in camp?

[The Rebel]

Camp starts on the 2nd... First game a month later. Interested to see if the addition of iggy and the subtraction of AAA and Big Al equal a better squad.

Expect to be a weak 3 pt shooting team and I doubt the D improves THAT much.

Will Ty and Gallo step it up a notch?
Can Chandler be our solid 6th man?
Can McGee be consistent?
Who's gonna get hurt in camp?

I think the defense improves considerably, just Faried cutting down on the rookie mistakes and Mcgee having an offseason working with the coaching staff and Hakeem on his defense should help. Adding what most consider the best perimeter defender in the league will also help. I expect them to be somewhere around top 10 for defensive rating this year.

The 3 point shooting worries me, although it seems like it is the same every year so I should be used to it. Karl and company do not seem to put much emphasis on outside shooting, which is fine in the regular season, but kills the half court offense in the playoffs every year.

[Grape God]

I think we will be better from the three. Of course, they were at rock bottom before lol. Big Al, for all his rep, was only a 33% shooter. I dont think his game will be missed

[corona]

i don't think we need new guys to be a decent 3 point shooting team.....we just need the guys we have to have halfway decent shooting seasons.

seemed like everyone was just off last year. lawson, afflalo, gallo, chandler, harrington, brewer & fernandez all shot below their career averages from 3. maybe just chalk it up to injuries and limited training camp.

gallo should be 38% on 1.5 makes a game. not under 33% like last year.
chandler should be 35% on over a make a game
hopefully iguodala can repeat last season, or close to it
lawsons a career 39% on 1 make a game

if they all do that, we're fime.

[Grape God]

i don't think we need new guys to be a decent 3 point shooting team.....we just need the guys we have to have halfway decent shooting seasons.

seemed like everyone was just off last year. lawson, afflalo, gallo, chandler, harrington, brewer & fernandez all shot below their career averages from 3. maybe just chalk it up to injuries and limited training camp.

gallo should be 38% on 1.5 makes a game. not under 33% like last year.
chandler should be 35% on over a make a game
hopefully iguodala can repeat last season, or close to it
lawsons a career 39% on 1 make a game

if they all do that, we're fime.

Exactly all those guys were in shooting slumps
Big Al's 33% 3pt shooting gone helps the cause. That said he could easily have a season at 38+%.

[scottcarman]

Regarding Kevin Love, would Nuggets fans consider the following:

Kevin Love for Faried, Gallo, Mozgov and 2 future 1st round picks? Because I think it would take an offer like that to get him.

PG Lawson, Miller
SG Iggy, Miller, JHam
SF Chandler, Iggy, Brewer
PF Love, AR
C McGee, Koufos (or maybe switch roles and let McGee be sixth man and work with Dre, while Koufos rebounds next to Love.)

I believe the Nuggets could extend Lawson for just under the luxury tax also. I don't think Minnesota considers unless Love wants out, and I think this offer competes with anything that Houston or other teams could offer.