Despite the Nuggets Outstanding 2008-09 Start, the Time in the Sun Came and Went for This Franchise

Here is another short but important writing from late July, done not long before I had to suspend even short basketball writings for a couple of months. I am posting this anti-Nuggets article regardless of the fact that the Nuggets are off to a much better start in 2008-09 than almost anyone thought without Marcus Camby and now without Allen Iverson. I will of course have a whole lot to say about this in the near future; please be patient. Suffice it to say for now that the Nuggets have shone in just a few games so far right now, and during the time of the year that is sort of a purgatory between the pre-season and the true regular season, which starts about the 1st of December.

Much more later. Here is the late July short but important article:

To remain fans of this mess of a franchise, the Nuggets fans at this point have to assume that the Nuggets will hit it out of the park with their roster moves in the 12-13 months after the Camby giveaway. The Camby haters and Kroenke excusers are thinking, and practically assuming, that the Nuggets will automatically replace Camby, Iverson, and whoever else with players who are just as good or better.

I would snap out of your dream if I were you. You don’t simply replace players such as Camby and Iverson with hopes, assumptions and flexibility. And then you still have that little problem with the coaching.

Those who are glad that Camby is gone miss the point of why the owner of the Nuggets paid the luxury tax in the first place: to get a team that you can not get in the normal everyday wheeling and dealing, when you are limited to being at or very close to the salary cap.

SUMMARY
Fantasyland: The Nuggets will use their “flexibility” to end up with a team in 2009-10 or the year later at the latest just as good or better than they had before giving away Camby.
Reality: The Nuggets are not going to have a team as good as they had in 2007-08 for many, many years, probably for at least 10 years in fact.

I am afraid that for Nuggets fans, the time in the sun came and went.

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