https://www.fansmanship.com/why-the-nuggets-actually-were-smart-to-fire-george-karl/ For the fans by the fans Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.29 https://www.fansmanship.com/why-the-nuggets-actually-were-smart-to-fire-george-karl/#comment-21735 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:15:36 +0000 http://www.fansmanship.com/?p=10228#comment-21735 Good article but I disagree. Look throughout the Nuggets roster and try to find a star player. You can’t, because there is none. Their leading scorer is Ty Lawson at 16.7 points/game. I would argue that George Karl did one helluva job to lead the team he was given to the #3 seed. The talent on the roster is nowhere near 3 seed level and therefore, at least in my opinion, a first round exit is actually what this team should have expected. The regular season Nuggets greatly overachieved and that is in large part to Karl’s coaching. The Lakers had a vastly more talented roster and barely eked into the playoffs because, at least in part, because MDA is too damn stubborn that his system is the system to rule them all. Karl coached to the team he had and overachieved. He should be rewarded for this, not fired because of his team’s inability to continue to overachieve. To cap it all off, Danilo Gallinari, the team’s 2nd leading scorer, tore his ACL two weeks before the start of the playoffs. It would have been a modern day hoops miracle if Karl got the Nuggets sans Danilo past The Splash Bros.

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