Don’t worry, Zach will be the enforcer on this team sooner rather than later. And Nurk should help too.
It felt like they played with that chip on their shoulder vs OKC and havent yet in this series. Maybe game 5 will give em some fight?
I'd play Meyers and Zach together. Things would get chippy and the refs would definitely call them both for ticky tack crap they'd never call on Denver, and they'd call them both for non fouls and fouls that were actually on the Nugglets, but it would set a tone and hopefully the rest of the team would up their intensity level.
That's what I want. I want chippy. I want Dame to get fired up. I want Meyers and fatboi to get into a fight and both of them to get thrown out. I have been saying we should play Meyers for a while. He gets under people's skin, and he always played Boogie really well.
This is another reason we really miss Nurkic. He is definitely the Designated Team Asshole, and there's nobody he likes shitting on more than Denver. Anyway, I think the real issue is that Denver has recovered completely from the 4OT game, and Portland just hasn't. CJ had just 12 points in game 5, and Dame a pedestrian (by his standards) 22. In game 4 everyone but Dame/CJ seemed a step slow. Dame is shooting 25% from three in the series. Aminu is suddenly completely worthless. *sigh*
This right here. My Dad has said over and over- we are missing just one piece. That enforcer. Who is our Maurice Lucas? Who's gonna be our Bill Laimbeer? Meyers could do it, right now. He has to. Sure, hopefully Nurk can next year. We NEED that bad ass on the court. He can still go kiss babies, and hug fans, off the court.....
