“Thank God for the All-Star break” indeed, Brian Shaw
“Brian Shaw needs help. Until he is supplied with the type of player who can share his message through his play the Nuggets will continue to struggle mightily”
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Your Denver Nuggets have been downright unwatchable over their past four games. They went oh-for-four on their most recent road trip, getting dismantled by the Knicks, Pacers, Piston and Timberwolves in succession by an average of 27 points per game.
Talk about ugly. We can all use a break.
Luckily, the Nuggets won’t see a court again until next Tuesday when they host the Suns in the friendly confines of Pepsi Center. Brian Shaw said it best: “thank God for the All-Star break.”
Naturally, the NBA All-Star weekend festivities won’t involve the Nuggets. It’s a team without anything approaching an All Star. It’s a team that lacks a soul. As this season has unfolded it has become clearer and clearer that George Karl, for all his failings, was the leader of the Denver Nuggets. That was – and is – the problem. The good teams in the NBA put their leadership on the floor and their coaches orchestrate it. In Denver, that’s sadly not the case.
Brian Shaw needs help. Until he is supplied with the type of player who can share his message through his play the Nuggets will continue to struggle mightily.
Last night, after the Nuggets were finished getting hammered by lowly Minnesota, I flipped to NBA TV to watch the Golden State Warriors face the Miami Heat. I also found an illegal stream of the Portland / LA Clippers game. Those two contests were so vastly different than the one I had seen on Altitude earlier in the evening that I wondered if I was watching the same league. Players like Lebron James, Steph Curry, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and LaMarcus Aldridge battle with a kind of pride we haven’t seen in Denver since – dare I say it? – Carmelo Anthony was traded to New York.
How it is that the Denver Nuggets still have not found a way to lure an All Star here is beyond me. We have heard all the excuses about ours being a small market and yet we see places like Indiana and Oklahoma City having success in the NBA – and contending.
The Nuggets are completely devastated when Ty Lawson, who’s not even a top ten NBA point guard, can’t play. They point to injuries to guys like Nate Robinson and JaVale McGee as reasons that they’re awful yet they would be awful if their entire roster was healthy.
Thanks God for the All Star break, indeed. Once it’s over the Nuggets will get back to losing on the regular. The second half of the season will only be more miserable than the first.
It’s beginning to look like it could be years before the Nuggets return to the playoffs and it’s tough to say who is to blame.
