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It's over for only just one game?
C'mon. *lol*
Spurs are on their way out
By Matt Kizzla
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.
Last edited by timvp; 04-23-2007 at 02:39 AM.
It's over for only just one game?
C'mon. *lol*
I actually had to look this article up to see if it was real
You'd think this was taken off of some Nugget fan's blog.
Pitiful
The Nuggets writers are funny.
This aint some dude like, writing from his college dorm room is it?
I almost wish this series will go the distance, just so my days can continue to be livened up by what passes for sports journalism in Denver.
That was a very entertaining read.
Nope, that's just me.This idiot actually gets paid to do this.
Dude can't even spell his last name right and he thinks he's seen the end? Please.
I've never seen a clearer example of the following three words:
Premature ejaculation forum.
Link for anyone who is wondering if it's real: http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_5728864
What does that mean about the Mavs? They looked worse than the Spurs did tonight. Are they too old and grey too, or is that just their coach?
Both teams had sat their starters for the better part of a week. It's not shocking that they come out flat in the first game.
Game 2 will be much more telling. I'd rather win 2 than 1 anyway, because it can give us momentum going into Denver. And now we know what the Nuggets are going to do to beat us.
Go, Spurs, Go. Right down the Riverwalk with several shiny pieces of metal with you.
WOW did i just read that?
Finally, someone got Nuggets video coordinator Jack Murphy's take on game one. That's what Kizla brings to sports journalism, and we're damn proud.
Well, Spurs are on their way out, just not by the Nuggets.
King of contradiction, no? His words don't actually make any sense.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.
This guy writes like he thinks he's hilarious, but it's just poor writing.
Ugh.
Sadly, he's right about one thing - we looked bloody OLD tonight. That is all the credit I can give this clown though.
Go, Spurs, Go. lol
Can I have $50000 vbookie cash if the Nuggets win the series?
Poor guy, I know in his heart, he doesnt believe the Nuggets can win. Funny article though.
What's funny is how much read you guys are giving him. Two threads for Kiz!!
This guy reminds me of Jeff Vexler after we beat the Mavs in Game 1 last year. The fool was talking sweep and all kinds of madness, and look how that series turned out. This bag is going to be surprised at how different a Spurs team the Nuggets face in Game 2. When any of the big 3 have a bad game, they bounce back the next night. I would not want to be the Nuggets on Wednesday night facing a bounceback from Tim, Tony and Manu at the same time as they combine for 60, perhaps more.
Sounds like a Hoopsworld writer, pretty pathetic.
That article was too slanting of the facts and context of happenings to deserve a column. I'm thinking about the writer more than the article while reading because he's trying so hard to make it believable that you can see him coaxing himself while he's writing it. That and the major contradiction Matt pointed out makes the guy at best a really bad shock columnist.
I am translating funny to spanish as a synonim of stupid
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