Nuggets Tip It Off

Long winded but I don't need my respiratory

to bless my story, you got nothing for me...

Some real quick hitters from the Nuggets' season opener last night (In the interest of full disclosure, The Commish only made it till about the 3rd quarter. 8:30 starts coupled with hours of snow shoveling, beating snow off trees, dealing with power outages, and my tap dance lessons will lend to early bed times. OK, I made the tap dancing thing up, but you get the idea.)

--The obvious is Melo looks leaner and was really involved, dipping into the low post on almost every shot. Look a little harder and you see that K-Mart also looks leaner and more cock diesel and was all over the court hustling. Maybe Mark Cuban sent him a fruit basket.

--New Pepsi Center logo on both sides of the court; but what is with the wood around it not matching the rest of the floor? Some dude who looked like Judd Nelson in St Elmos Fire came to my crib and told me he could get all of my mis-matched wood floors to look the same for minimal cost, yet Stan Kroenke can't get the same effect? Maybe he should call Andrew McCarthy.

--Andre Kirilinko- grown up Macaulay Culkin?

--Everyone is all gaga over Ty Lawson and count the SG as being on his jock too. The combo of him, Chauncey, and Anthony Carter will cause matchup problems. Chauncey had his problems at times with more athletic guards the past couple years, and Lawson should give him adequate rest throughout the year.

--Pepsi Center looked damn packed considering the snow and ice coming down. These are probably the same people who left work early and won't be showing up for work/school today due to the conditions. Yet they can drive downtown to watch hoops, drink Coors Light and enjoy a bowl of Blueberry Dippin Dots.

--I will miss Linas Klieza because the Ivan Drago voice will no longer echo through the Commish house. Oh, his clutch shotting too.

--The Nuggets are getting pretty well fucked by the NBA over the opening stretch of the season. Four back-to-back games over the first three weeks? In this day and age why are back to backs even necessary? They have four to five day breaks, yet still have games in two different cities in two nights. With the weather and travel, they won't roll into Portland to about 5am and then sleep, practice, meetings, and play the Trail Blazers? This season, they have four trips of four or more road games without ONE homestand of longer than three games.

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