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04/05/2013 12:28:00 PM MDTNuggets forward Danilo Gallinari is helped off the court after suffering a knee injury in second quarter Thursday against the Dallas Mavericks at the Pepsi Center. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)Related Danilo Gallinari's knee buckled. Hearts broke throughout the arena. But the Nuggets' shot at playoff glory was not hauled away on the same stretcher that transported the agonized face and 16-point scoring average of Gallinari to the doctor's office.
The Nuggets can still win one NBA playoff series. Or more.
Yes, this year.
If Denver truly is a team whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts, as we've been repeatedly told by coach George Karl, the Nuggets' season did not end with Gallinari's injury.
Anybody with a heart aches for Gallo. Get well soon.
But the truth is: Gallinari might be the one starter on this team the Nuggets can most afford to lose.
On any given night, Wilson Chandler or Corey Brewer can be a better basketball player than Gallinari. Thanks to the depth of talent assembled by Nuggets general manager Masai Ujiri, this team has two capable players to replace Gallo on the wing.
As his shooting percentage attests, Brewer can be every bit as dangerous a scorer as Gallinari. Chandler is a stingier defender and the rebounding equal of Gallinari.
Karl loves trouble,gucci outlet store online. He does his best coaching work in a crisis. Piece together a new playing rotation on the fly? That's not easy. But that's what Hall of Fame coaches do, right?
And here's some help: Keep Brewer as the spark plug off the bench. Start Chandler. Plug. Play. Win.
With six games remaining on the regular-season schedule,foceng.com/toryburch.html, the Nuggets have a stronger than 70 percent chance of earning the No,gucci outlet store online. 3 seed in the Western Conference, according to Sports Club Stats, a website that crunches numbers into tasty bite-size morsels of hoops intelligence.
With home-court advantage in the opening round, the Nuggets do not need Gallinari to eliminate either Golden State or Houston, their most likely opponents,cheap true religion. And,Cheap Toms shoes, in case you haven't noticed, the old San Antonio Spurs are falling apart at the seams, which would make them a foe Denver should relish facing in the second round.
The real injury concern for Denver is not Gallinari, it's point guard Ty Lawson. Lawson is the player who makes the Nuggets go. He's out with a nagging,cheap true religion jeans, worrisome foot injury.
So stop crying in your beer, Nuggets fans.
If Lawson can come back for the playoffs, Denver will be off and running,pilewu.com/coach.html.
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