Ty Lawson Taking Hold Of The Nuggets Fortunes. Fournier Close Behind

Let the revenge tour continue.

Ty Lawson for Pau Gasol?  Would you make that trade?

I forgot that the Utah Jazz actually started our 8 game losing streak simply because I expected us to lose the first game home after a long road trip. Most teams do.  It felt more painful to me that we lost the next game to Oklahoma City because they were the bigger fish to fry.  The Nuggets did not forget either game.

They remember every team along that dreary losing streak.  Right now, the very best thing that the Nuggets have working on their behalf is the sour flavor of that long losing streak.  In the midst of that streak lies the framework to the rest of the season for some, the rest of their career for others.

Evan Fournier - Nuggets 2nd yr. guard

I would love to get my hands on Pau Gasol, but I am happy to carry this team into the rest of this season.  This team bathed in the heat of failure and have become the embodiment of their quiet leader.  They hate losing and you can tell where it comes from.

 Utah is a perfect opponent for this stage of the transition because they will lose most nights, but can win any night with a wealth of young talent.  Nonetheless, I expect a few quarters of inner conference rivalry and a fourth quarter of another team taking a double digit ass kicking from the Nuggets.  If the Jazz can't get second chance rebounds they will fall much earlier.

I expect the next level of Evan Fournier who is gaining more and more confidence each day and is earning more and more minutes as a result.  I expect Fournier to force Ty Lawson to crap or get off the crapper.  Right now the Lawson who started this season has returned and brought his 3 point shot along as well.  This Ty Lawson has returned to the penetrate and kick and to force the attack.  Fournier is not as fast as Lawson, but he is bigger and is not afraid to hit the pull up jump shot that Lawson runs from like the plague.  Lawson would rather french kiss his grandma than shoot the only shot that teams are consistently giving him, but he is passing well enough to disguise this fear from the untrained eye.

Quincy Miller - Nuggets 2nd yr guard

Fournier has the luxury of using this season as a framework to define his game which is soon to launch his name all over the national scene. Lawson has to use this season as the framework to his career, whether that is with the Nuggets or without because he can take this team and make it his own, but he had better grab hold of it soon.

They both need to watch out for Quincy Miller.  Quincy cold!