WERE DOOMED! I have to say that the Nuggets beat out the Sonics in every category especially with all their players back. well except maybe turnovers and Ft%. But this will be very toughBold= Watchout<span style="color:#48D1CC">C. Marcus Camby PF. Reggie EvansSF. Carmelo AnthonySG. Allen IversonPG. Steve blake6th- JR Smith</span><span style="color:#006400">C. Nick CollisonPF. Chris WilcoxSF. Damien WilkinsSG. Ray AllenPG. Earl Watson6th Luke Ridnour</span>Rashard is needed badly in this one. IF the Sonics pull out a win then Defense is what will have to be shown as well as Collison and Chris controlling the boards again. But take a look who they have to battle with on the boards. Camby AND Reggie Evans. That is in no way going to be easy or less than complex.Ray needs to straight out bring out his A+ game and dominate behind the arc. The defense is dangerous with AI in the passing lanes and Camby down in the redzone. Their gonna be on him all game. A good thing though is that Ray seems torch George Karls teams. Not to mention they are playing at home.Damien Wilkins and gelabale need to show some better Defensive efforts against carmelo. Which will be tough. It dont matter if they score much but if they stay defensive minded and hold him, the only worry will be iverson, suprisingly camby on offense.Earl Watson Need to show that they are the best pg for the starting job. IF luke drops 20 off the bench and Watson drops at least 15 and dishes out double figure assists along with lukes 6-9 off the bench we could see something happen good for them. The addition of blake allows iverson to be the scorer and not the passing and scoring man. Not saying he can't do both.Lastly, There's the scoring of Collison and Wilcox, we need to see 20 point efforts from each and double digits on the boards. I guarentee u if they can pull this off with ray dropping 20 points with luke and watson doing their PG roles and abusing Little steve blake the sonics WIll win.NOTE: RASHARD IS NEEDED BADLY for this one.The worst part about this is that the nuggets can blow the sonics out and make this a very boring game.
Sonics on top at the half. They just gotta keep controlling the boards and heating it up but right now allen is 1-8 from the 3.. not good.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Camby23Land @ Jan 23 2007, 10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>70-69. We should be dominating. </div>Not really. It's closer than what I expected so far, but Denver is playing the second game of a back-to-back on the road... never an easy task for any squad.
Well... another loss 4 the sonics... the Pointguards suck..Wilcox and Collison brought their A game with them dominating the boards.. The pgs .... I give it to ray taking over at the end but the loss could have been prevented if ray didnt get his ONLY 2 turnovers in the last 2 minutes of the game which handed the nuggets the win. rashard is needed to take the pressure off of him in situations like this. But ray did thrive hittiing those 3's at crunch time. Very Good game though. The sonics should be very proud they held it down against a team with so much talent. and not only beating out camby and evans on the boards. I also commend melo for being the rebound leader and scorer for the team cause melo has been slackin on the boards for his position and height.. hmm kinda like rashard. I wish I coulda saw it.
yeah I agree- Our PG let us down so did SF. Come back Rashard!!! Ray was HOT. Collison really is ipresssing the sh*t out of me lately- to rebound so well against Camby and Evans!The future is looking better than it was 2-3 weeks ago Now to trade Ridnour/Watson :S lol
