I had a feeling something like this would happen. Don Nelson is just too good of a coach to let the same thing happen to his team twice. Sure enough he put Baron Davis on AI and AI all of a sudden was contained. Someone had mentioned that AI wasn't feeling well but that would not coincide with the fact that he logged the most minutes of any player on the Nuggets for this game. Does that make sense? At least we all know that we do need his scoring to win and not just base it all on stats like if AI scores more than Anthony they lose? dee-dee-dee! duh...
Again, this game came down to coaching, Nelson knew what to do and Carl did not make any adjustmenst to alleviate the problem they were having the whole game.
Anyway, why can't Carl have a rule of thumb, if any one of the starters or players for that matter (anyone, even one of the dynamic duo) goes 0 for 7 or 1 for 10, take them out! Put somebody like JR or Kleiza that can bring in energy and points. Let them sit on the bench so they can think about what is going on and let the coach know when they are ready to go back in. Hey, didn't Von Wafer score 40+ points in a pre-season game or something??! Everybody keeps saying that our Bench isn't as good as others well that's because they are not given enough opportunity! Even the Denver Nugget Bench is full of Talent!
Things like this are what the Denver Nuggets are missing. Next up are the defending champs the San Antonio Spurs. Let's just hope for the best and expect the worst. Works for me..
Bottom-Line: You can't do the same thing over and over again against good coaches, you need to mix it up. Maybe something like this as a starting lineup in the 3rd Quarter to mix it up:!
3rd Quarter Nugget Starting Lineup:
C Camby
F Nene
F Najera
G Kleiza / Von Wafer / Jones - whoever is ready to go
G JR Smith
This kind of adjustment will throw any defense off don't you think? Anywho, I am not coach for I am merely the NUGGSTER.
Go NUGGETS & HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
Nuggster
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