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Denver Nuggets (official thread)

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Nuggets tonight were up 94-85 over Dallas on the road. Dirk goes off and Dallas scores 9 straight to tie it up. The type of game on the road that you are going to lose. But on comes JR Smith, the Nugs score the next 9. Game over. Nuggets are 16-5 without Melo, 48 wins for the season. Where did I put that dancing banana? :groove:
 
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The Nuggets got so much when they traded melo away. I had no doubt they would be better off. If they could keep this team together they would be one of the deepest teams in the league. I always thought JR Smith would need to get out of Melo's shadow to show how good he really is.
 
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Nuggets absolutely going off right now. Up 112-79 w/ 9mins left in 4th quarter vs Minnesota. Ty Lawson hit an NBA record 10 straight 3s, and his miss on the 11th was at the end of the third quarter from half court. Sideline reporter said George Karl stared at him for like 5 seconds when he walked off the court, and then said "Why in the world would you shoot that?" and he shrugged and says "I don't know, man".

Koufos getting some decent minutes.
 
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Buck33Eye11;1905341; said:
Nuggets absolutely going off right now. Up 112-79 w/ 9mins left in 4th quarter vs Minnesota. Ty Lawson hit an NBA record 10 straight 3s, and his miss on the 11th was at the end of the third quarter from half court. Sideline reporter said George Karl stared at him for like 5 seconds when he walked off the court, and then said "Why in the world would you shoot that?" and he shrugged and says "I don't know, man".

Koufos getting some decent minutes.
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Turns out that Lawson would have broken an NBA record for most three pointers without a miss in a game if he had stopped at 10 for 10.
 
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The fix is in. The NBA wants OKC and Kevin Durant to advance. Every touch is a foul, but a tackle against a Nugget is a no call. The NBA is the most crooked and corrupt sport in the world. Worse than boxing. Fuck this.
 
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colobuck79;1908071; said:
The fix is in. The NBA wants OKC and Kevin Durant to advance. Every touch is a foul, but a tackle against a Nugget is a no call. The NBA is the most crooked and corrupt sport in the world. Worse than boxing. [censored] this.
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Did you happen to catch the 2nd Q of the heat-76ers game yesterday? Fucking disgrace. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The heat (down 12) had fouls called for them on something like 7 or 8 consecutive possessions. It was vile. The announcers didn't say anything, but you could hear in there voices that they were a pretty shocked as well. I've watched a total of about an hour of nba games all season, turned that game on for that sequence and shut it right back off. I won't watch another second.
 
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NFBuck;1908079; said:
Did you happen to catch the 2nd Q of the heat-76ers game yesterday? [censored]ing disgrace. They don't even try to hide it anymore. The heat (down 12) had fouls called for them on something like 7 or 8 consecutive possessions. It was vile. The announcers didn't say anything, but you could hear in there voices that they were a pretty shocked as well. I've watched a total of about an hour of nba games all season, turned that game on for that sequence and shut it right back off. I won't watch another second.
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I saw it. This game is the same. Its like fucking professional wrassling.
 
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Watched the replay of the no-call on the offensive goal tending this morning. I am looking for an explanation from anybody as to how the refs did not see that. The OKC player had his hand tangled up in the net and tipped the ball in. Any reasonable explanation is appreciated.
 
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colobuck79;1908166; said:
Watched the replay of the no-call on the offensive goal tending this morning. I am looking for an explanation from anybody as to how the refs did not see that. The OKC player had his hand tangled up in the net and tipped the ball in. Any reasonable explanation is appreciated.
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I think it's along the lines of the Miami and Philly series, and even Ohio State-Kentucky to a degree.

I think it is less about "fixing" a game, but more about human error and self-regulation. Officials in the Miami/Sixers know Miami is the better team, so when they look up at the scoreboard and see a score of 31-19 in the first quarter, it's almost a "wow, what is happening here?" self thought. Next thing you know Miami gets 7 calls on 7 possessions, and D-wade can kick opponents and get a whistle.

In the Ohio-State V Kentucky game, you had a half where Kentucky was very lop-sided on the stat sheet in terms of fouls. The second-half starts and the first thing you notice is a quick whistle against Ohio State, and team fouls average out for the game. The game was only fairly called with the last 10 minutes to go int he second half of that game.

Again, I think officials know OKC is supposed to win, so if they don't, they don't want to be the deciding factor. But by swallowing a whistle, being to whistle happy, or keeping a team in the game, they are the deciding factor. Any time you have humans calling games, there is going to be error. And there is a lot of psychology to the error, IMO.

The most annoying part is watching David Stern and the NBA defend the incorrect calls or make excuses for it. As bad as the DEN/OKC game was, the second quarter of the Philly/MIA game was worse. But DEN/OKC will get more run b/c it was a game deciding moment in the 4th quarter. The Philly/MIA game was in the second quarter, and even though it let Miami climb back in, it wasn't a game deciding play or moment. But the Philly/MIA game is the bigger issue to me....
 
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