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Originally Posted by cpawfan
Quality Front Court Depth is more important to beating the Spurs in a 7 game series than the SG position. Not that perimeter defense isn't important, just that Duncan will get your team's bigs in foul trouble and you need have quality replacements to keep the game competative.
For the SG position, I'm concerned about the defense, than the offense, which is why I'm high on Hodge. Hodge can pass and he can defend. Any scoring from the 5th position in the lineup is gravy.
The Nuggets are built such that the SG is least important player on the floor. Most teams have a weakness like that in their lineup. The Spurs have it at the center position and sometimes the PG position when Parker goes into a funk. When the Lakers won championships with Shaq & Kobe, they had weaknesses at 3 positions.
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Excellent POST!
Nugs should be okay if they can find a guy to log minutes at the 2 where they can defend and score.
Next season point breakdown:
Miller 12 ppg
SG 10-12 ppg (Lenard & Hodge)
Melo 24ppg
KMart 18ppg
Camby 10ppg
That would give us 74-76 points from our starters.
Bench:
Boykins 12ppg
SG 6ppg (Buckner)
SF 6-8ppg (Najera & Klieza)
Nene 14ppg
Elson 2ppg
Bench output around 41 ppg
Now if Denver got that output they'd average around 115 ppg. Which is probably not going to happen, but should under Karl's running system and player's improvements.
Denver gets to 100 they win. The defense is tough enough with that cast to hold em to double figures.
Looks like there may be no room for DJ
I'm still going DJ over Buck.