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too bad denve isnt getting outta the first
Sir Charles on point as always.
too bad denve isnt getting outta the first
LMFAO at using Charles as a key, he was a dumbass the whole NCCAA tourney and now he is right? HAHHAHAHA OKAY!!!
True.
OKC will sweep spurs for real
Nah, Spurs will beat OKC in 6 and then fall to the lakers in the wcf
Now, I know there's talk about the over use of the term butthurt, but check out this example.
http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_5728864
San Antonio - With a 95-89 victory everybody else in basketball will regard as an upset, the Nuggets sent an unmistakable, undeniable message to Tim Duncan and the once-great San Antonio Spurs.
It's over for you.
It has been a great run by the Spurs, including three NBA championships, but it's done.
If Sunday's victory by the Nuggets in the postseason opener was so shocking, why didn't anyone in the visiting locker room look surprised?
After Denver claimed Game 1 in this best-of-seven series, someone asked center Marcus Camby if it was reason to party.
"We're not content," Camby insisted. "We ain't happy."
"That's what I'm talking about, M.C.," chimed in Jack Murphy, the team's video coordinator. "We're businessmen on a trip, here to do a job. We don't need to celebrate."
I'm not saying this series is over.
And the Nuggets certainly know better than to count out San Antonio.
"We know how serious it is," Nuggets point guard Allen Iverson said.
But what was revealed Sunday night is the Spurs are too thin, too gray and too vulnerable to be considered real threats to win it all.
So Denver might as well knock them out now and save San Antonio the inevitable disappointment down the road.
After Duncan clanked shot after shot under relentless defensive pressure by Nene, the normally unflappable San Antonio superstar was spied during the first half rubbing hands across his mug like a fuming child who could not believe what was happening to him.
"You're playing against a Hall of Fame player, and you can't stop a guy like that, all you can do is contain him," Iverson said of the intensity Nene employed to rattle Duncan. "Nene did a great job of just taking the challenge."
If Mr. Robot Face is what you normally see from Duncan, then his display of frustration means the Spurs are in real danger, Will Robinson.
After watching Carmelo Anthony and Iverson combine for 61 points, taking over at crunch time in a raucous arena, you must acknowledge Denver possesses as much or more talent than the Spurs.
There's only one Bruce Bowen, San Antonio's designated defensive pest, and he cannot be a gnat buzzing in the ears of Anthony and Iverson at the same time.
Once, as every bone in the body of San Antonio big-shot artist Robert Horry creaked as he raised himself from splatting on the floor, I swear you could see the AARP card slip from his pocket. The Spurs are old. They're ornery. They won't go quietly. But their roster has too much mileage to make a long playoff run.
Maybe the only thing really shocking about Denver's victory was how workmanlike it was.
Unlike two years ago, when the Nuggets teased us by stealing the opening playoff game in San Antonio when Andre Miller played out of his head and the Spurs missed 17 shots in a row, Denver has found a new formula capable of repeat success.
This time, the dream of winning a playoff series for the first time since 1994 is real.
Anthony and Iverson, not Duncan and Spurs point guard Tony Parker, were the best two players on the court.
It was the Nuggets who appeared more composed with the game on the line, going on an 11-0 run late in the fourth quarter to take control.
"We didn't panic," said Iverson, who started slowly only to score eight crucial points in the final period.
After trading for Iverson in December, it took so long for the Nuggets to find an iden y and learn player roles that you worried they might run out of name tags.
"We had some struggles. But there's nothing you can do to fast-track things," Denver vice president of player personnel Rex Chapman said.
The pain of discovery is paying dividends now.
The Nuggets are no longer a classic running team. Those rainbow uniforms are in mothballs, and the soft running jumper of Alex English is a fading memory.
But, maybe, just maybe, Iverson has taught the Nuggets how to win the gutter fights and halfcourt battles in the dirty little wars that define playoff basketball.
What is that annoying chant fans scream incessantly in San Antonio's arena?
Go, Spurs, go.
And turn out the lights when you leave.
When is the last TIME YOUR HOT team rolling into the playoffs beat the Spurs? Hmmmmmm, NEVER.
Wow. I actually remember that article and that writer from years back.
Musta' done a number on me, I reckon...
YES SIR, we all heard this before here!!
duncan is a couple of years closer to Parkinson's now though
Yep, Duncan is just an old tired bag.
Kinda like the man in the mirror at your place?
No. Your Duncan has the old tired bag look all to hisself.
ha, ha.
From what I heard, Chuck said Dallas is still the best team in Texas, and he believes they can still possibly make a run at a championship. I didn't hear it myself though, that's just what I was told. Not that it means anything though.
I just wanna see a Mavs/Lakers playoff series, and I will be happy.
I'm sure Denver will win the first game in a closely contested match and then get their pushed in the next 4 games like always.
I luv me some Chuck, partly because he's not afraid to go out on a limb.
This limb broke though, and he's headed to ground quickly.
Him saying it doesn't make anyone who believes it less stupid.
lol saying the Mavs are contenders
point is, Denver is not beating the Spurs easily. Denver isn't beating anyone.
So you'll be happy watching the Mavs get bounced from the postseason in a quick and dirty 5?
Do people think the Spurs won 61 games by accident this year?
Kiszla sucks.
Do Spurs fans actually think that matters now...?
My rayjays boys would all over
SA. Chuck with the goods
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