Nuggets Coach Brian Shaw Say's: My Fault Fellas. (I thought you were better than that)

Can Chandler score late?

Somewhere into the middle of a 21 point lead I put that Suns game in the bag.  The Nuggets players bagged the game too, and paid for it.

Tonight's  game against the Clippers, the Nuggets get to take the value of a lot of lesson's and put them together.  The first lesson came when they returned from a long, but succesful road trip to get blasted at home by the Jazz.  The second was playing blow for blow with a big time contender in OKC, and shrinking in the end.  Jordan Hamilton had a deeper lesson about going blow for blow as he took a couple of stiff hip checks from Adams of OKC and retaliated with a swing that cost him a game.  He didn't even get his money worth with the love tap he laid on Adams.  Lesson: Get your revenge in the flow of the game, or shut up.

Last night's lesson was, 'don't look ahead'.  Coach told them to put this team to bed and save some energy for the Clippers and they came out to do just as he asked.  He told them that everyone would play and he did just that.  The problem with that formula is that it only works when it works.  If you don't win the game when you coast, you have to judge how liberal you should have been with the lineup. Yet, a good coach has to rebound from this type of loss. So what message does he give to his team in response?

My fault fellas.  I thought you guys were good enough to call off the dogs.

Brilliant coach.  Brilliant.

Watch out Clippers.