It's never dull. The thing that pisses me off is that that game was ripe for the Nugs to take. I LOVED the move of putting K-Mart on Kobe. LOVED it. Unfortunately, Karl forgot about the other match-ups out there. I love AC, and he was busting his ass, but he's not right for this series. He needs spot minutes to back up AI, and that's it. Kleiza's inconsistent, but start him. JR is just too valuable coming off of the bench. As for Camby, I'm not a big fan of the +/- stat, but he was MINUS 30 yesterday. I'm ready to hire a sniper to take him out if he even steps foot on the court the rest of this series. Start Najera. Go with a 7 man rotation. If we HAVE to, play Hunter. Just no more Camby. The Nugs aren't going to win this series, but we can at least make the Lakers earn it. EDIT - I just realized that I went off on a rant and ignored your question. Sorry. I think it's the inconsistency and the fact they could be great defensively. We're not bad at defense in the big picture. We just have lapses that kill us. BTW, was it just me or did anyone else get the feeling that JVG was auditioning for the Nugs coaching position yesterday?
kmart on kobe was a great move, but george karl negated the positives from that move with insisting on playing anthony carter. poor guy was getting abused out there.
Van Gundy on the Nugz would be interesting. If he can get them to play defense they would be a really good team. Since they are loaded with scorers, JVG's inability to coach offense will not be an issue.
I really want the Nuggets to upset these damn Lakers. AI needs to go back to being AI. The one that took Philly to the Finals. Thats the only way the Nuggets will beat them. He needs to drop trying to play PG and just go out do what he does best. You started to see him do that during game 1.
I disagree. I think we can win without AI taking over, but it requires Camby to not play and for Karl to mix up his defenses more. So yeah, not happening.
Nuggets have no defensive discipline. Screw the Hollinger stats. He needs to shove those up his @$$. This team is atrocious on defense. They have the worse defense in the history of western civilization. The defense Kobe had in his Denver court case is light years better than the Nuggets(and I'm literally talkin bout basketball). They cannot get a stop to save their lives. They gamble for anything. If Steven Hunter came in the game and pump faked a 25footer he would have 2 defenders in the air. Whats sad is they have plenty of defensive talent on this team and they do nothing with it.
not really a lakers fan but i hope tmac is watching kobe tonight....maybe take some notes for tom's game
I thought this is America, freedom of speech? He is free to say anything but that is the main reason why I hated lakers' fans because most of them are arrogant like this J-cool guy!
yea kobe's ONLY job is to score on this team. he doesn't have the responsibility to do anything else. that's pretty easy to take note off. tmac has to do 5 things at the same time for us.
