Well. Maybe I Was Wrong

DENVER -- Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant overpowered the Denver Nuggets the last time the teams played. It was a different story in a rematch.Carmelo Anthony outplayed Kevin Durant, scoring 30 points, and the Nuggets took control with a big third quarter to rout the Oklahoma City Thunder 119-90 on Wednesday night. Durant, the NBA's second-leading scorer, was held to 19 points after averaging 31 in two previous games against the Nuggets this season, including a 101-84 win in Oklahoma City on Jan. 29 in the teams' last meeting.Denver coach George Karl said the Nuggets focused their defensive efforts on Durant, using double teams and rotating their big men to give him different looks."He's been playing incredible and we just wanted to throw some things at him that disrupted him, make him do things he's not used to doing," Karl said. "We felt like we had to give him different looks. Next time, he might beat them."

Hmmmm. I still think we can beat Denver in the playoffs. The Nuggets might be the one team I'm so sick and tired of hearing about. Everyday it's some asshole on ESPN or the radio talking about how Denver is always making a statement and how they're so underrated. No, they're not. I'd argue they are not underrated not overrated. They're just rated. They get as much respect as a team that hasn't won shit should get. Seriously. You can tell me how they were about 4 seconds but beating the Lakers in the conference finals last year but the truth is that they didn't and in 3 years nobody will even remember this team unless they win right now. Give me 7 games of the Thunder-Nuggets and I think Durantula takes them out in 5. About 60% of me believes that last statement.