Silverfuel wrote:
It is amazing how much you expect from Melo and how much of a pass you have given our other players in the present and in the past.
Anthony is a "finished" player... the Moses who was supposed to lead us to the promised land, and expectations for him were created by everyone who thought we should give up anyone or thing Denver wanted to acquire him.
The lesson you get from our playoff appearance is that you need a team to win, and that Anthony, alone, was not even able to get us a single win against Boston, a team that seemed on the verge being marginalized toward the end of the regular season.
As for what the Nuggets got...
Denver doesn't win game 4 without Gallinari's contribution in the second half and down the stretch, which complimented Lawson's fine game. He also had a good game 1, and was doing fine in game 5 until his foul problem. Denver actually lost some leads with him on the bench during the series, and picking up 5 fouls may have cost Denver the game yesterday, because he had been having a good game, and was doing well on D against Durant. He also had an achilles injury during the series- in fact he had a few injuries with Denver- making me wonder about his durability as he continues to gain weight, but that is another issue.
Don't know what happened with Chandler- he had some injury issues down the regular season stretch- had a terrible playoff series, though. He did not seem in sync, but I think some of the blame should be put on Lawson and Felton to some degree, IMO.
Felton tried to do too much in his series, but I think we would have been better off with him than Billups. He seemed to be competing with Lawson to see which of the could make crazier drives to the hoop. I thought both he and Lawson tried to do too much on their own in the series and did not make their teammates better.
Mozguv was hurt- what else can you say- but he showed enough promise during the year to make me think that Walsh should have done everything he could to keep him.
Kind of funny when I here folks talk about our "core." Our two big stars are still one way players for the most part, with one of them showing some brittleness in terms of injuries, and your third "star" is over hill- a guy who will never get better, and probably will not be around for all of next year (definitely not back the following year). The rest of our team seems to be filler at this time. So our core 3 guys making about 46-50 million combined. We have no cap flexibility and face the uncertainty of a new CBA. Easy to think negatively about our future.
So it goes.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities- C.N. Bovee
