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Nevertheless, the Nuggets should put an unspoken bounty on Ginobili's head. No layups allowed.
Bigger is better, and key
By Mark Kiszla
Denver Post Staff Columnist
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...847027,00.html
If the game is basketball, the Nuggets are not going to beat San Antonio. But this NBA playoff series is far from over.
Let the fisticuffs begin.
The fight began in earnest when forward Carmelo Anthony sent a message as subtle as a lead pipe, clubbing Spurs all-star Manu Ginobili with a flagrant foul to end the hostilities of Game 3.
The Nuggets lost, but landed the last shot.
And it struck me as funny.
A fellow nicknamed Melo is now Denver's enforcer. I teased Anthony about it Sunday.
"I'll be the enforcer, but I ain't that type of player," he said, before speaking the hard truth about his hit on Ginobili. "It was a hard foul. I just wish I could have done it early in the game."
If you can't beat them, beat them up.
Call me crazy, but I believe the Nuggets are fully capable of overcoming a 2-1 deficit to win this series.
How they can do it is the surprise.
Denver can cause the Spurs the most pain with size, not speed.
Ginobili, who plays with the recklessness of an avalanche rolling down a mountain, irritates the heck out of Nuggets coach George Karl.
So squish the pest like a bug. Denver has enough big bodies to knock down Ginobili every time he drives to the hoop.
Going big is the best way to hurt San Antonio.
The Spurs do not want to play eye-for-an-eye and tooth-for-a-tooth with Denver.
"We're not going to get dirty, because we're not that kind of team," San Antonio forward Tim Duncan said.
Let Karl beef up his lineup with Marcus Camby at center, Kenyon Martin and Nene at forwards. Team this huge front line with Anthony and Andre Miller at guard, then see how the Spurs digest the problem.
"If I had to play big guard, I'm thinking I'd have no trouble adjusting," Anthony said.
I'm thinking it could give Spurs coach Gregg Popovich major heartburn if he was forced to defend Martin with Brent Barry in order to leave Bruce Bowen checking Anthony.
Denver, a team in love with the fast break, cannot beat San Antonio by running from the challenge.
Karl must start forcing matchups that jangle the Spurs' nerves.
San Antonio is mentally tougher than an NYPD interrogation by Detective Andy Sipowicz.
But I suspect the Spurs are soft physically, from the tender ankle that limits the lateral defensive ability of Duncan, to the indecisive post moves of center Nazr Mohammed, to the slender European body of point guard Tony Parker.
There is too much wishy- washy wringing of hands in Denver about how the Nuggets have already blown their best shot at an upset. It escapes me why Karl worries about his team getting bullied by Ginobili, a wire-thin Argentinean separated at birth from actor Bronson Pinchot.
After averaging a disheartening 82 points per game in the series, Karl and his blind followers will be tempted to demand the re-establishment of tempo. There will be well-intended pining to see Earl Boykins play alongside Miller in the Denver backcourt for lengthy periods of time.
The quick tandem of Boykins and Miller can work, in small doses. But here's a promise: Fast, pretty or easy elimination of San Antonio is not going to happen.
When Anthony admitted the Spurs have hammered a stop sign through the heart of Denver's fast break, it was not a weak concession of defeat so much as a sober acceptance of reality.
Popovich is a connoisseur of food and wine, but when it comes to winning in the playoffs, he would paint chest hairs on the Mona Lisa and declare it gorgeous.
The best way for Denver to steal easy baskets is early in the shot clock, with Anthony rubbing off screens or Martin attacking the rim.
Why is Nene wasting away on the Denver bench? A big lineup could prevent San Antonio from winning again with lousy shooting and strong rebounding.
While every Ginobili score is a painful reminder of how general manager Kiki Vandeweghe allocated too few resources at shooting guard, the money and power in these Nuggets are invested up front. So use them.
The Spurs like to play head games, robbing foes of their basketball iden y.
But beat on the body and San Antonio's head will die.
Alongside Houston's Tracy McGrady and Steve Nash of Phoenix, Ginobili is the rare NBA star worth every penny of a $75 ticket.
Nevertheless, the Nuggets should put an unspoken bounty on Ginobili's head. No layups allowed.
Let the battle begin.
Want to stare down San Antonio? The Nuggets have two choices.
Go big. Or go home.
Nevertheless, the Nuggets should put an unspoken bounty on Ginobili's head. No layups allowed.
Desperation is often quite funny.
Please, please, please go with that big lineup so that I can see Carmelo Anthony guard Manu
Should a national newspaper print this kind of thing? Should a sportswriter incite violence? Should this not beg for letters to the editor? Shouldn't this ask for a certain writer to be suspended, at the very least?
Once again.
Some teams are good because they are.
Other teams aren't so they have to resort to BS like this.
The writer should be ashamed. Hurt guys on purpose just to win??
Pathetic.
San Antonio is mentally tougher than an NYPD interrogation by Detective Andy Sipowicz
ain't that the truth!Alongside Houston's Tracy McGrady and Steve Nash of Phoenix, Ginobili is the rare NBA star worth every penny of a $75 ticket.
Please, if the last game taught these fools anything its should be that Manu doesnt care who is in the lane. He will get in there and get his due somehow. He will keep getting back up. He will keep getting players ejected and he will keep winning games for us.
Throw everything you have at us Denver. We do after all have control over this series now. We have won two in a row including beating you in your own mile high house. It IS up to you to make the adjustments not us. Lets see what you come up with Karl. I am telling you right now it better amount to more than hack-a-Manu because this team has three super stars and the best bench in the league.
Or have the Denver fans forgot the last game so fast?
gimmicks are born of desperation.
Going big concedes they can't run, first off. Half court will be in our favor, no doubt.
If they want to hit Manu every time he goes in for a layup, their bigs WILL foul out. They only have 3 quality bigs (Nene, Camby, Martin) , and they have to guard Duncan too. Who is going to sub in again?
Second, what is to stop us from playing Robinson or Horry at sf and Bowen at sg? We can match them big for big, I have no doubt.
Third, having 3 bigs is senseless, the lane will be too clogged for them to get anything with this idea. You can only have 2 guys on the post, and the third will be a high post guy....the best you get out of this is you can't block the jump shot, big whoop.
This guy is a fool.
Not only that, once you get all the bigs in foul trouble, having a small line up out there would seal the game.Please, please, please go with that big lineup so that I can see Carmelo Anthony guard Manu
Nice try Edgar Allen Poe, but edit the story and try again.
Im hoping tommarow night's game goes like game 4 in Minnesota in 99.
Timberwolves come out stupid, and the Spurs walk all over them, and their bigs try to "fight"
It seems that Game 4 will be Parker's and Beno's night. And a night of a Big Dog... SA monster has many heads, and they grow when you cut them. So Pop shurely will call such monster gorgeous, wouldn't you think so?
This is scary talk.
The Denver team, coach, trolls, sports "writer"s are even more trashy, cheap, dirty bas s than I thought.
from: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...mavs_spurs_ap/
"Dallas' Juwan Howard was ejected late in the first half for a flagrant foul on Anderson, who separated his right shoulder and could miss the rest of the playoffs.
As Anderson drove and jumped for the basket, Howard swung his arm into Anderson's side. Anderson landed on his shoulder and hobbled off the court grimacing and cradling his arm."
And we know from JH's numerous flagrant, hard fouls since, he wasn't "going for the ball", but for Derek, most vulnerably in the air.
Is that the type of playoff game that the Denver s bag mother ers are calling for?
The can't beat Manu with basketball, so they resort to beating up on Manu like criminals.
Spurs have to put these low-life Nuggets out of the playoffs Wed night @SBC.
Here's two more articles from the Denver Post:
Ginobili's style stings
Nuggets know Game 4 is series' big one
Doesn't it seem like Denver's being taken out of their game?
If they go big, the spurs would own the fastbreak, and I don't mean a little. Manu and Parker would kill a bigger lineup like that in the open court. Thats whats great about this team and stupid writers never seem to remember (with their "spurs are boring at ude") We can run with teams like Phoenix any day of the week.
ugh. this "if you can't beat them, beat them up mentality" is ridiculous. i don't see karl stooping that low, but we can retaliate. we don't have willis, but nazr and big dog could throw some denver thugs to the ground.
i don't want the game to come to that, but i'm just pointing out that if they go dirty, they will pay. if they send melo out to do dirty work and he's ejected, then they are all but done. if we respond with big dog and he's ejected, we'll survive.
"Whatchu sayin' young buck? Yo want some of dis?"
Can the Nuggets go "Super Sized"?
The Spurs have the height to match anything they have.
Please dont hurt our Sasha Vujacic
"Whatchu sayin' young buck? Yo want some of dis?"
What a morron!!!"It was a hard foul. I just wish I could have done it early in the game."
If Manu is not scared to take it in to Shaq I am pretty sure he has no problem taking it in to Camby and Martin.
Well, the Spurs have a 6'7" PG if they want him, so if the Nuggets go big the Spurs could go even bigger. Barry, Bowen, Horry, Duncan, Nazr/Rasho/TMass... it might not be the prettiest lineup, but it would be pretty cool to see.
That's what I was thinking Gerryatrics.
If you want to go mammoth, you could go Ginobili, Robinson, Horry, Duncan, Rasho.
So no Denver, going big is not going to help you.
Staff writer Mark Kiszla can be reached at 303-820-5438 or [email protected].
i made my voice heard...
i feel better now!
Popovich is a connoisseur of food and wine, but when it comes to winning in the playoffs, he would paint chest hairs on the Mona Lisa and declare it gorgeous.
This is one of the most hilarious quote ever...maybe because it is so true.
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