It's absolutely amazing to me to watch the Nuggets just completely self destruct yesterday during the end of 3rd quarter and the beginning of the 4th. How can one team go from sharing the ball, getting offensive rebounds, and play their rear-end off to doing nothing but jacking 3's, taking bad shots in transition, and playing no defense? It's what I like to call George Karlitis. He has zero control over his team. I thought I saw a stat during the time when the Lakeshow went on their run, the Nuggets were 1-12 from the field to go along with a solid 0-6 from deep. Here is the game log for the Nuggets during their awful six minute stretch:
Kenyon Martin misses 20-foot jumper
J.R. Smith misses 26-foot three point jumper
J.R. Smith misses 28-foot three point jumper
J.R. Smith misses 29-foot three point jumper - with two seconds on clock for quarter
Kenyon Martin misses driving layup
Kenyon Martin misses 8-foot jumper
Chauncey Billups misses 27-foot three point jumper
Nene Hilario offensive foul
Nene Hilario technical foul
Carmelo Anthony misses 25-foot three point jumper
Carmelo Anthony misses 11-foot two point shot
Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 1 of 2
Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 2 of 2 - Thank you for stopping the bleeding
#1 You have to get to the rim or at least the line, #2 JR Smith should only dress for home games, and #3 Like the Cavs, you can't just expect to give the ball to Melo and hope for the best. You can't have stretches like this and expect to win the playoffs. I don't think the series is over, especially with a game in Denver but the Nuggets need to put together two great games to win the series.
Once again, Coach Calipari is running another program into the ground. He did it at UMass with the whole Marcus Camby fiasco and now allegedly Derrick Rose didn't really take his SAT before enrolling at Memphis. Coach Cal escaped the UMass situation because he was in the NBA failing miserably and now he has moved onto Ashley Judd's favorite team. Though he wasn't named in the report by the NCAA, it still doesn't make any sense that his hands aren't in the middle of it. Kentucky should've done a litte more homework but it's not like they haven't been in trouble before.
Gotta love how the NCAA makes these rulings. The school always gets shafted while the person who is in the center of the situation comes away unscathed (as long as they move to another school). Violations should go with the coaches and not the schools. Steve Fisher never got in trouble at Michigan while he was there but all of a sudden CWebb, Louis Bullock, and "Tractor" Traylor accepted a boatload of money. Michigan gets put on probation for five years and I think received a postseason ban. Steve Fisher is now coaching at San Diego State and I don't even think he got a slap on the wrist for having "knowledge" of the wrongdoings of the the boosters and his players.
Kelvin Sampson at Oklahoma is another example. He leaves after making more phone calls than I can count to recruits and then he gets no off campus recruiting and outgoing calls to recruits while with the Hoosiers. Sampson goes to Indiana and still violates the same rules as before (idiot). Jeff Capel has to handle the 0% graduation rate and possible NCAA restrictions. . At least the NCAA got it right with him. Forcing him not to coach at the college level for five years. The unfortunate thing about it is, Indiana is now on probation due to the mess he left.
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