Must Come Down

The Nuggets: It's like going to a really exciting movie that just came out and then finding out the movie you want to see is sold out so you have to see a Sandra Bullock movie instead. Your solace is in her essential cuteness, but you're ultimately disappointed. That was the Nuggets against the Pistons last Friday night. Minus the cuteness of Sandra Bullock.

I'm not sure that George Karl can even be called a coach anymore. He doesn't do anything at practice, and he's nonexistent at games. After timeouts, the Nuggets routinely fail to run anything resembling an NBA-quality inbounds play. These guys are worse than the 8 year olds at the Y. They run around like their boxers are bunched up and then they launch what can only be described as vomit at the rim. And just like a hung-over college student, they don't come anywhere close to getting it in (oh praise the blessed double entrendre, my friend and yours). There are literally thousands of websites for inbounds plays on the internet. Come on George, take five minutes and google that shit. You're obviously not doing anything else with your time.

I saw a stat recently which showed the Nuggets' winning percentage with Andre Miller running the team versus A.I. Andre had the Nuggets over .500 (and Philly too for that matter), while A.I. seems to be doing his best to keep the team out of the playoffs. And Philly is in the midst of a 7 game win streak. The Nuggets can't even get a 3 game win streak going. Go figure. I'm not saying that getting A.I. was a bad deal, but you gotta start wondering at the wisdom of the thing when the team sucks night in and night out.

This is ridiculous. How can a team with A.I. and Melo play so poorly? The Nuggets crapped one out in the third against Golden State, and they dropped another stinker against the Pistons. I can understand the Pistons - they're a top-level team. But the Warriors? Don Nelson doesn't teach defense, none, not a lick. He doesn't know how. The man is the true heir to Doug Moe. Yet the Nuggets found a way to score less than 20 against Golden State, and pulled a repeat perfomance at home against the Pistons.

George Karl, go home. Wait, maybe I'm being too harsh. Fix it. Or go home. You have a talent-laden roster, even without JR Smith, and you're content to watch mediocrity on a nightly basis. Fix it or go home, Crap Karl.