Denver Nuggets Flying High, Yet Full of Smoke

Ok, as I watch the Denver Nuggets get blown out by the San Antonio Spurs on a TNT nationalized telvised game Tuesday night, I thought I would comment on how awful the Nuggets look.

Good GOD!

I thought that if you wanted to compete to win a championship, especially in the West, you had to at least play some defense.

I mean the Suns really are an exception to that rule, but then again they have two-time (and soon to be three-time) MVP Steve Nash to drive their ship - however the Suns have yet to go to the Finals.

But the Nuggets lack anything of the sort.
As Charles Barkley said on TNT- The Nuggets defense is horrible. The Nuggets have the two leading scorers in the league, but the have no players doing the dirty work. No guys who don't really want to score, but will play defense and rebound and hustle. And he loves Allen Iverson, but Iverson pounds the ball too much. David Aldridge mentioned Eduardo Najera as a gritty player, but Barkley said Najera's not a good enough player.
They lack any confidence in their defensive play. And the Spurs just picked them apart like the veterans they are, while Reggie Miller proclaimed that "this" is why the Nuggets are not being considered to go far in the playoffs. They don't have the ability to compete on a higher level with those elite teams of the West. The Spurs weren't even playing that complex a defense, but their excellent execution managed to hold the Nuggets to 49 points through three quarters. The Nuggets recorded their lowest scoring quarter of the season with only 10 points in the third, as they crawled into the fourth quarter with a 31 point defecit.

It was ugly.

Iverson and Melo have only played 7 games together and they are 2-5.

You do the Math. At number 7 in the West- it is not looking good.