How about a summary type of topic for a change? I'm only part-time right now due to being in the final stages of my huge real estate project/problem, so a broadly speaking topic fits my current time capability. (Every real estate project is also a real estate problem these days.) Speaking broadly, the Nuggets and their fans have three ongoing nightmares. 1. The coaching staff does not know how pro teams win playoff games. Karl actually virtually admitted this in public! 2. The front court is essentially never healthy and in sync. 3. The back court is totally hosed up because there is no established, playoff caliber PG nor, shockingly, even an understanding among the coaches of the importance of the position. The fact that the team won 50 games despite those crippling problems proves that this team mostly played their best under the circumstances this past season. But losing in the playoffs was obviously inevitable, and will continue to be so unless the above is solved. As a rough estimate, solving any one of the above would get the Nuggets' current roster in line to win a playoff series. Solving two of the three could get the Nuggets to the Western finals. If all three were solved, the Nuggets would then and only then be candidates to possibly reach the NBA finals. But these nightmares are ongoing. Currently there is no end in sight to these bad dreams. Let's hope the Nuggets wake up before they start returning to the 24-58 days.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tremaine @ May 27 2008, 12:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How about a summary type of topic for a change? I'm only part-time right now due to being in the final stages of my huge real estate project/problem, so a broadly speaking topic fits my current time capability. (Every real estate project is also a real estate problem these days.) Speaking broadly, the Nuggets and their fans have three ongoing nightmares. 1. The coaching staff does not know how pro teams win playoff games. Karl actually virtually admitted this in public! 2. The front court is essentially never healthy and in sync. 3. The back court is totally hosed up because there is no established, playoff caliber PG nor, shockingly, even an understanding among the coaches of the importance of the position. The fact that the team won 50 games despite those crippling problems proves that this team mostly played their best under the circumstances this past season. But losing in the playoffs was obviously inevitable, and will continue to be so unless the above is solved. As a rough estimate, solving any one of the above would get the Nuggets' current roster in line to win a playoff series. Solving two of the three could get the Nuggets to the Western finals. If all three were solved, the Nuggets would then and only then be candidates to possibly reach the NBA finals. But these nightmares are ongoing. Currently there is no end in sight to these bad dreams. Let's hope the Nuggets wake up before they start returning to the 24-58 days.</div> When did Karl admit that he doesn't know how pro teams win playoff games?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gambitnut @ Jun 3 2008, 11:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>When did Karl admit that he doesn't know how pro teams win playoff games?</div> GK: "We Have Not Found A way to Conquer That" (Winning a Playoff Series) He is honest and open at least, most of the time, as television broadcasters have noted. But he takes that to an extreme when he calls out players in the Denver newspapers and television stations.
