Washington (7-29) @ Denver (24-17), Jan. 18th

[Yoga]

[eathb_au]

Looking forward to McGee against his old team.

[Powder Blue]

Nene back in town too

[Powder Blue]

Somehow they outran us in the fourth...

[RRFB]

Typical Nuggets.

Washington is a better team than their record indicates, but this loss **** stings.

[eathb_au]

Sighhhhhh

[Maf]

Losing to this crap. Such a Nuggets thing to do.

And of course I bet on Memphis, Brooklyn, Chicago and Denver..

[torotoe]

Losing to this crap. Such a Nuggets thing to do.

This loss sits squarely on GK's shoulders IMO. Anytime a good, rested team loses at home to a **** team like the Wizards, it's the coaches fault- period. The reason you say "Such a Nuggets thing to do" is because we have been seeing this same bull **** for the past nine years! Lawson had a career night and the Nuggets still lost to the **** Wiz. **** unacceptable.

[The Rebel]

Watching this game, late in the 3rd quarter I had a thought go through my head that I wished the Nuggets could play a team just like the Nuggets to cure their outside shooting problems, how is it no matter how bad a team is at shooting the 3 they play the Nuggets and seem to hit 90% of their outside shots? The Wizards came into last night in 28th place in the league for outside shooting, yet hit 48% last night, and yet we have what are supposed to be 4 damn good perimeter defenders in Gallo, Igoudala, Chandler, and Brewer. That is a Karl defensive system problem, and after 9 years he still has no idea how to fix it, the Nuggets switches and doubles system needs a ton of work, as we always seem to leave the other teams best perimeter scorers wide open on every play.

Also we cannot have Gallo & Iggy have such bad nights at the same time, we have nobody to replace their scoring, even if Lawson & Miller tried they cannot do it by themselves.

speaking of which either Lawson was too tired and did not want the ball in the 4th, or they lost the game because the Nuggets decided to go away from him entirely in the 4th quarter, how can a guy hit 10 straight and go minutes without touching the ball? Of course we have long asked that question when Miller is acting as PG, but you would think after all these years Karl would put a stop to that ****.

[eathb_au]

I think Miller-Brewer coming in causes a lot of problems defensively.

Brewer whilst a good perimeter defender when he doesn't gamble for a steal or leak out on the fast break constantly left Beal and Ariza open in the second half and Andre Miller doesn't even bother defending the perimeter and just sits in the paint. Thats basically two guys who give the opposition wide open looks.

The bench has really been a big problem, extremely inconsistent, perhaps the worst bench defensively of top 10 seeded teams, and lacks a scorer to provide a much needed spark (basically a real sixth man). Would it be a bad idea to start Hamilton at the 2, shift Iggy to his more natural 3 position and bring Gallo off the bench for that Manu role?

Either way, it was so obvious what the problems were with this team when the Iggy trade happened and is disappointing that even now Masai has done nothing about it.

[darivo]

Miller & Lawson at same time together is a pain.

Because both needs the ball in their hands to create something in the attack. Law&Miller doesn't good attackers off the ball, and they need very high space to shoot from the 3pt line

and get them together meaning that Faried or Kostas will be benched. Playing with Gallo at PF........ defensive rebounding problems!

i agree with lack of defensive skills of Brewer when he is off the ball. Usually he loses his attacker when cuts off the ball