The Nuggets are national joke, making Denver look even worse.
“It’s embarrassing now to be a Nuggets fan and it’s made worse by what the Broncos did in the Super Bowl. Even Clevelanders must pity us right now. Other than the Avalanche, who compete in a sport that very few people care about, our franchises are really making the Rocky Mountain region look awful.”
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Brian Shaw didn’t have a whole lot to say after his Nuggets were hammered at home by the second oldest team in the NBA (who came into to Denver of the back side of a road back-to-back). In his post-game comments the ball coach seemed only to want to put the game behind him. The TV broadcast crew had plenty to say, however, between guffaws.
Barkley and Shaq and Kenny and Ernie joked about the Nuggets ever before tipoff. By half time the guys at TNT were literally laughing out loud at the blue and yellow along with and entire national viewing audience. Denver’s heartless, fruitless effort came on a most unfortunate night.
Last night’s debacle marked the Nuggets’ transition from a middling to bad Western Conference team to a national joke. NBA fans the world over will now discuss Denver in the same breath with the 76’ers and the Bucks, even though with twenty-five wins it wouldn’t seem as if the Nuggets belong in that conversation. Loyalists and local media point to Denver’s unprecedented slate of injuries for some justification of the lack of production on the court but it’s too much to expect America to see the Nuggets as anything other than a bumbling squad of incompetent goons.
It would be nice to have a crystal ball through which to see what the team would look like had Karl and Ujiri not left. It’s entirely possible that with the current cast of players the Nuggets would be no better off, but it seems unlikely. It’s hard to imagine a team sliding from a top-three playoff seed in one season to a lottery team the next and not believing leadership is at least partly to blame. At no point in Karl’s career as the Nuggets’ head coach did we ever see them get blasted by over twenty points ten losses in a row.
It’s embarrassing now to be a Nuggets fan and it’s made worse by what the Broncos did in the Super Bowl. Even Clevelanders must pity us right now. Other than the Avalanche, who compete in a sport that very few people care about, our franchises are really making the Rocky Mountain region look awful. How can Denver be such a sports wasteland? Sure, the Broncos went to the Super Bowl and, sure, that technically makes them the envy of thirty other teams, but the way they got destroyed makes them seem worse off than a team like the Patriots who were eliminated a round earlier.
After the Super Bowl Denver fans turned to the Nuggets for a little bit of hope and inspiration. Instead we have gotten egg on our faces once again. What happened to Denver on the National stage last night was just icing on a painful cake.
