Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Nuggets Games of the 2008-09 Season We Will be Doing Full Reports On

These are most of the important games for the Nuggets. In every one of these games, neither team is playing on back to back nights. These games are more fair and thus more important than games in which one of the teams has the extra rest advantage. We are doing a similar number of Raptors games at www.raptors1.blogspot.com.

Wed. Oct 29 Denver Utah 9 p.m. ET
Fri. Oct 31 Denver L.A. Clippers 10:30 p.m. ET
Wed. Nov 05 Denver Golden State 10:30 p.m. ET
Thu. Nov 13 Denver Cleveland 7 p.m. ET
Wed. Nov 26 Denver L.A. Clippers 10:30 p.m. ET
Tue. Dec 02 Toronto Denver 9 p.m. ET
Thu. Dec 04 San Antonio Denver 10:30 p.m. ET
Mon. Dec 15 Denver Dallas 8:30 p.m. ET
Fri. Dec 19 Cleveland Denver 10:30 p.m. ET
Mon. Dec 22 Portland Denver 9 p.m. ET
Fri. Dec 26 Philadelphia Denver 9 p.m. ET
Wed. Dec 31 Denver Toronto 7 p.m. ET
Fri. Jan. 9 Detroit Denver 9 p.m. ET
Thu. Jan 15 Phoenix Denver 10:30 p.m. ET
Sat. Jan 17 Orlando Denver 9 p.m. ET
Mon. Jan 19 Denver Houston 2 p.m. ET
Tue. Feb 10 Denver Miami 7:30 p.m. ET
Fri. Feb 20 Denver Chicago 8:30 p.m. ET
Tue. Mar 03 Denver Detroit 7:30 p.m. ET
Sat. Mar 14 L.A. Clippers Denver 9 p.m. ET
Mon. Mar 23 Denver Phoenix 10 p.m. ET
Wed. Mar 25 Denver New Orleans 8 p.m. ET
Fri. Mar 27 Denver Dallas 8:30 p.m. ET
Thu. Apr 02 Utah Denver 10:30 p.m. ET
Sat. Apr 04 L.A. Clippers Denver 9 p.m. ET
Wed. Apr 15 Denver Portland 10:30 p.m. ET

Monday, October 13, 2008

NUGGETS 1 REVIVAL FOR THE 2008-09 SEASON, AND INTRODUCING RAPTORS 1

NUGGETS 1 REVIVAL
Nuggets 1 ran off the rails as of the 1st of April 2008, due to a massive personal project that had to get priority, and that was made at least 10 times more difficult by the economic meltdown. As of mid October 2008, the project was done, so I am bringing Nuggets 1 back to life.

SOME GOOD NEWS:
--The site is coming back to life as of October 14, 2008
--We are going to try to embed some streams of live Nuggets and other basketball games on a site run by a friend of ours.
--Due to the shortcomings of the Nuggets organization, we are branching out and will be doing game reports of close to 10,000 words each and other goodies for the Toronto Raptors on the brand new Raptors 1 site.
--Aside from Nuggets and Raptors Game Reports, we are planning to do a few "wild card" game reports involving other leading teams. For example, we might do a game report for Lakers-Celtics. Tentatively, one wild card Game Report every 3 weeks is planned.
--Nuggets 1 has substantially improved it's already great Real Player Ratings reports. Aside from the overall NBA Real Player Ratings, now we will also feature Real Player Ratings reports by team. Watch for Real Player Ratings 2.0 to be rolled out for some teams here in October 2008. And then do not miss Real Player Ratings 2.0 by team, for all NBA teams, in January-Februay 2009.
--League Real Player Ratings 2.0 are scheduled for October 2008 and March 2009. The planned October 2008 report will be both a review of last season and a preview of the new season. The March 2009 NBA Real Player Ratings will give you the low down on the season, and will also preview the 2009 playoffs.

NEUTRAL AND NOT SO GOOD NEWS:
--The Nuggets most likely will not make the playoffs this year, so we are no longer going to even pledge game reports for every game; our plan is to produce 30 game reports. Keep in mind, though, that game reports are not far from 10,000 words each in length, so 30 reports is still most likely more detailed content than anywhere.
--Special Report frequency is being reduced a little to one report every two weeks. Special Reports are not going to be combined into Game Reports anymore. But Special Reports will still be one of the main features of this site.
--There may be another disruption during the season, due to another unavoidable pain in the neck project that needs doing. Any such disruption will not exceed 1 month. And this time, the disruption will definitely not be at the worst possible time, at the end of the regular season, or during the playoffs.

THE REVIVAL PART ONE
The first step in the resurrection of this site is to post here what I was doing part-time during the April-July 2008 period, which was posting numerous commentaries on two Nuggets forums. I had not planned to do even that, because I really could not afford even that amount of time, but I could not resist doing so. But this created the bizarre circumstance where my site was neglected in favor of these two forums. So now I am placing those commentaries where they belong, on this site here.

The commentaries are arranged by when they appeared on the forums, mostly in 10 day periods, which means each month is divided into three parts: early, middle, and late. Each of the posts have the same title format: "Return of Nuggets 1: [period of time comments went on forums] Comments. For example, the first one is "Return of Nuggets 1: Late March 2008 Comments." August had only a tiny number of contents, so all of the August comments are in one post. The comments are in chronological order, and there are different subjects without any lead-ins.

I apologize to regular readers of Nuggets 1 (both of you lol). I congratulate anyone who has come back here again despite the dead months because, as I always say, Nuggets 1 will keep getting bigger and better, even if the road is rocky and rough sometimes.

Friday, May 2, 2008

May 2, 2008 Notice

MAY 2, 2008 NOTICE: It is likely that I will be able to start reporting and writing again approximately May 15, although at only about half the usual pace until July 15, when I will probably be able to return to full pace.

Please note also that Nuggets 1 will be separating the Special Reports from the Game/Team reports. This will make the Special Reports much easier to find and will trim down posts that became ridiculously long this year. There are 3 Special Report series for 2007-08, one of which is completed and two of which are in production:

Friday, April 4, 2008

NOTICE OF PRODUCTION SLOWDOWN, APRIL 4, 2008

April 4, 2008 Notice: I had no choice but to temporarily suspend my basketball writing while I complete a huge real estate project in a timely fashion. This project is making a house/building/barn/land that has been somewhat neglected over the years appealing to a buyer in all respects. I have pretty much completed that, and just the selling part remains. I have two extremely interested buyers right now.

I had to suspend my writing in order to be able to do everything I need to do before departing for my new residence. I am leaving for the new residence no later than June, but I am hoping for May. As soon as I have a buyer, or May 10 or so, whichever comes first, I will return to my basketball writing.

I will complete all game reports in the off season. Yeah, they will be crazy late, true, but they will get done and they will be worth reading, I promise you. Also, of course, I will also be completing two Special Reports: "Allen Iverson, What Could Have Been." and "The George Karl Fiasco"

I am truly sorry that I had to do this, but I absolutely had to suspend posting for 4-6 weeks. I'll be back asap. Please come back and check out the better late than never reports that will be completed in the off season.

Thanks very much in advance to everyone who sticks with Nuggets 1. This site is going to continue to be a primary source of basketball truth. We cover the Nuggets, but the truths we uncover are true for all teams.