One and a Half Technicals

Please send your kindest greetings. Right about now you must be wondering if I decided to go with acid or cocaine for my nightly dosage. Well, lets go to the actual subject shall we.

These past games, the Nuggets have began their season and are now 9-4. Sure you can credit it to the studs like Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson, and Marcus Camby who deserve a lot of credit, but so far this year a good part of our wins have been because of our “Scramble Squad”. The scramble squad consists of Linas Kleiza, Eduardo Najera, JR Smith, and Bobby Jones. Yes, that was my thesis.

Linas Kleiza is the second year man out of Mizzou who really started earning his stripes towards the end of last year where he got sizzlin’. He is either hot or freezing from beyond the ark, but when he is on, he is on. He is a hustle guy, but is overshadowed by Bobby Jones and Eddie Najera. This year he is averaging 10 point a game which has been big for us in a lot of our wins.

Eddie Najera is arguably the biggest hustle guy in the league, besides THE RYAN BOWEN, (who I think I could beat in around the world.) He hasn’t been earning his minutes with just his dive ’til I die mentality though, he now officially is a three point threat. Yes, I said three point threat. He actually has the highest percentage on the team at .438, and it isn’t just because of a few why not heaves.

You might know JR Smith as the lose cannon who can throw down some “goddamn slams’”, but he also has a three point shot and has been hustling in the 10 games he has played. Here in Denver, the announcers now call him the “One Man Comeback” and he got that for a reason. On several occasions last season, and once this season he has took over the game when our players were playing horrible and sparked them with either a few threes or a big dunk that ultimately let to a victory.

Bobby Jones. Who the fuck? I like to call him Najeraesuqe. A big hustle guy who can be wild at times, but also is a good defender who is all over the place. This is just a developing player, kind of the foster child in the family, with JR being the fresh out of juvy brother, Linas the new dad (formerly Reggie Evans) and of course Najera the stay at home do everything involving cleaning mom. That was most definitely random, but it got the point across.

This team brings the spark off the bench every game and if one of them isn’t clicking, maybe even two, the others are bringing it their all. People say the Nuggets don’t have good enough role players to go far in the playoffs, I say crack open an egg and watch the scramble squad go apeshit.