We are CLEARLY the deepest team in the league.

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  1. KingSpeed

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    And it isn't even CLOSE.

    When you lose 6 of your top 9 players, as we did for the SA game, and 5 for tonight, and you STILL beat Western Conference playoff teams, then that is a testament to your depth. You can go down your roster and still get good minutes.

    I'm telling you now that if the Nuggets played without Carmelo, JR Smith, Birdman, Nene, and Carter, they would beat NO ONE.

    If the Lakers played without Kobe, Pau, Bynum, Shannon Brown, and Sasha Vujacic, they wouldn't beat the Spurs.

    Please name for me a team in which you take 5 or 6 of their top 9 players off the roster and they still win games against good teams. Even if it's players 5-9 on their depth chart. I don't think any other team in the league could do what we've been doing.
     
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    One guy who's filled in that I am loving right now is Jeff Pendergraph. What a great pickup for a second-round draft pick. Guy is playing hard, not intimidated by ANYONE, and just does all the little things. A great backup big man. I am a huge fan of his right now.
     
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    Agreed, imho, he's exactly what we need: the new Mark Bryant out there. He sets a mean pick, he grabs big rebounds, and he's not afraid of anyone. I loved watching him jaw with Birdman out there tonight.
     
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    The Blazer back-court can match any in the league for depth. Blake, Rudy, Miller (because of age), and Bayless (because of inexperience), are what used to be called "1.5ers". Average or below for first stringers, but way above average for 2nd stringers. Now that Nate seems to have figured out the concept of "mix-and-match", he is getting full benefit from that depth.
     
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    The one flaw however is we still have our two best players Roy and Aldridge. As long as they're healthy we still have a chance to win games. But yes I agree if those teams lost a lot of their ROLE PLAYERS they'd be out of luck.

    Granted we did win in SA without our star in Roy but still. We couldn't keep that up if Roy was out for awhile. No team could.
     
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    If you took Brandon and LaMarcus, our 2 best players, we'd win far less games.

    So your comparison isn't just.

    If the Lakers were without players (rank wise) #3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 (Oden, Batum, Rudy Travis and Joel for sake of argument), they'd still have Kobe.

    They'd probably be like the Lakers team a few years ago that won 30 something games (or whatever it was). Most teams, I believe, would either suck incredibly, or fight like the Blazers are currently.
     
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    well, its kinda just... the win against the spurs we were missing roy.

    who even plays for the lakers if they lose kobe/artest/bynum/walton/fisher/brown? and thats being charitable listing walton as their 6th best player.

    or how about positionally?

    take away their starting and backup sg(kobe/shannon)/ their starting sf (artest)/their backup pf(odom)/ and both centers(bynum and powell).
     
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    Billups is one of the Nugs top players right? and wasn't the game in Portland?

    just saying

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    Billups played the first half.
     
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    yes he did... and the Nuggets were leading at that point. They were blown out in the 2nd half without their multiple time AS point guard.

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    And they lost. Also, to compare, the nuggets would have to be without Smith, Birdman, and Nene.
     
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    That's it then? We're reducing this to "We only won because their point guard was hurt"?

    :smiley-squint:
     
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    well, they did suck ass before he got there, could be on to something.
     
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