I couldn't think of anything to write, and it had been a while since I wrote anything. I figured, why not a sports-post? I've done so in the past and it seemed to work, so without further a due, my two cents on the NBA.
Checking out the scores for the games last night on the ol' ESPN, I caught an editorial piece on who benefited the MELODRAMA, the Knicks or the Nuggets. The general consensus, which matches my belief as well, is that the Nuggets are rolling where as the Knicks are also rolling, down a fucking hill and into a swamp with a bullet in their gut.
The Nuggets have streaked, and immediately after acquiring Felton, Chandler, and Gallinari, 7 games right after the fact the trade cost them more than Melo, but their leader and spiritual, inspirational center, Chauncey Billups. Well, at least their franchise and the icing to their cookie-crunch; some people might argue their coach George Karl is their center. He's the fulcrum to their wins-and-losses teeter totter, just look at the Finals last year when Karl was absent due to a third round of chemo to battle throat cancer, where they bit it in the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs -- All in the past for a team who beat the San Antonio Spurs last night by 3 for the first time all season.
What's changed? Well, for starters, the Nuggets are second in the league in defense behind Chicago. Last night, Al Harrington was playing lights-out. If you guard Felton, and Lawson is in, the two play off each other, so you sacrifice ground by planting two guys on him, and a third watching the wing, but Nene or Harrington is going to take the inside. Go ahead and foul, they'll make up the points either way.
Manu Ginobili commented that the Nuggets are a deeper team that will give you a game until the end. I don't understand, San Antonio is the same way, perhaps Gregg Popovich isn't smart enough to give some of his bench warmers a chance on the floor because I've always considered the Spurs to be one of the deepest teams. You've got Anderson, Bonner, Blair, Neal, Tony Parker when he's playing, and Splitter. Then there's Duncan who is injured. I put Parker in the back-up bracket because of his increasing limited minutes on the court.
Side bar for a split second: I think you Spurs need to speed up your game. Just a bunch of old and slow basketball All-Stars waiting for their Centrum Complete to kick in, or that Aleeve they took before the game. This coming from a guy who still says the Spurs will be holding that trophy at the end of May, but you leave yourselves open for a loss to Denver like this now, and it's gonna be a uphill battle when you meet them in the second or third round of the playoffs, I'm just sayin'. Although, the way OKC is playing like a separated Siamese-twin of the Celtics with newly acclimated center Perkins, and Westbrook taking time in the off-season to enter boot camp with the same trainer MVP candidate, and let's face it, winner Derrick Rose has, shaping Russell into a more consistent, dominating player. Look out for that fuckin' Durantula to own your game -- I'm getting really excited for these playoffs, more so in the west than east, and that's saying something Lebron, Bosh, Wade, Howard, K.G., Allen, Carmelo, Billups, Rose. But hey, perhaps they're resting up.
