Not even close? Houston can't beat Denver.. especially a Denver team with HCA. Houston turns the ball over too much and when they do, it's a Nuggets dunk the other way.. Houston shoots WAY WAY! too many threes and when they do the Nuggets already get the rebound, pass to the other end, and put the ball through the hoop before Houston even realizes that they missed the shot. If you're going to beat Denver, you need to get them to operate in a half court and I don't think Houston has the defensive discipline to do that. You also have to control tempo and the tempo that Houston plays at plays straight into Denver's hands. Houston is overmatched at almost every position with a healthy Lawson.. W or W/o Gallinari and Denver has a MUCH better bench. Denver will bounce Houston out easily if they meet in the playoffs.
The denver nuggets don't have their best two players and they are destroying the rockets. There are a lot of delusional rocket's fans. I understand this is the 2nd night of a b2b, but getting blown is not good.
Anyone who thinks the Nuggets are a good matchup are just plain ignorant. We'd lose every game by 10+ points. They have our number. It's better to go out facing an in-state rival than those clowns. 34-3 at home, well on their way to 35-3. Nearly impossible to beat there... Can't keep up during the second half, that air is just too damn thin.
*Waiting/watching the poll swing the other way now* Someone go start a new thread! Surely we need another new one: Who do you want to face in the playoffs? First it was Memphis. Then it was San Antonio. Then it was Denver. Now it's ....?
I'm not too worried about the playoffs.. we're still ahead of where we were supposed to be in the rebuilding process. Making the playoffs made this a sucessful season in itself. The "youngest team in the league" needs to mature a little bit and add more pieces in the offseason. Getting playoff experience is just icing on the cake.. even if it's just 4 games of experience.
Calm down. We went into Denver, where 4 teams have won all year, on the tail end of a back to back that our starters endured heavy minutes in, and lost. Big whoop. Yeah they were missing Ty and Gallo but we were missing Parsons and Delfino. Plus they were uncharacteristically hot from 3 while we were uncharacteristically cold. **** happens.
This. It was just a combination of all things bad happening. Everybody is going to knee jerk over this like crazy. Asik literally couldn't move and gave up more wide open dunks than I could count. Given the fact we just played and had to come into this altitude + missing 2 of our best shooters and scorers isn't that big of a deal. Gallo isn't coming back, but Wilson Chandler played like it didn't make a difference today. We can still take this team.
We would be more competitive against the Nuggets if they are without Lawson and Gallinari and we had Parsons and Delfino.
Are people surprised just because of tonight?? Did anyone watch the other games this year vs. the Nuggets??? Here, lemme help y'all out: http://espn.go.com/nba/recap?id=400277779 http://espn.go.com/nba/recap?id=400278342 http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400278399 After tonight, that's 0-4. Who wants us to play the Nuggets again?? Btw, 35-3 at home? Are you serious? Even if they had won 5 road game all year, why would anyone want to play this team?
If we do face them, I like that we will have a nice punch and sting them out of surprise because they haven't seen our best. Kind of like vs the Lakers in 09 when they swept us in the reg season and we stole a couple of games.
