๐ Why didn't the Denver Nuggets make a breakthrough in the playoffs?
๐ด๐ฟ โ๏ธIn the 06/07 season, the Nuggets made a blockbuster trade to get the then scoring king Alan Iverson (33.0 points per game in the 05/06 season), how terrifying the output on the offensive end, coupled with the team's original potential small forward, and LeBron James's Cameron Anthony (26.5 points per game in the 05/06 season), the team formed a terrifying golden double gun, personal offensive ability exploded, and few teams in the league can match it. Throughout the regular season, the Nuggets averaged 105.4 points per game, achieving a record of 45 wins and 37 losses, ranking sixth in the West, extremely rare in the defense dominated game at the time, ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers led by Kobe Bryant and behind the Houston Rockets led by Yao Ming Maddy.
๐ง๐พ โ๏ธ Among them, Iverson averaged 24.8 points and 7.2 boards and 3.0 assists and 1.8 breaks in the regular season, 22.8 points and 5.8 boards in the playoffs, Anthony averaged 28.9 points per game 6.0 boards and 3.8 assists, and the playoffs averaged 26.8 points and 8.6 boards per game, the two super-giant personal offensive abilities are beyond doubt, but the team's defensive loopholes are too many and have not become a strong attack system, resulting in the playoffs facing the experienced and powerful San Antonio Spurs, facing Duncan's dominant interior performance and Parker, Ginobili's outside output was really difficult to overwhelm, and finally lost by a big score of 1:4, ending the pace of the playoffs!
๐ 06/07 season Nuggets paper strength is absolutely top-notch, Anthony + Iverson + JR Smith + Boykins + Andre Miller + Nene + + Cambie + Kenyan Martin + Najra lineup is impeccable, but the team's technical and tactical system is too single, the offensive end purely relies on the personal singles of the golden double gun, the team has too many scoring points, resulting in insufficient ball power, did not form a strong attack system, the defensive end also relies on personal defense in their respective positions, failed to form an effective defense system, As a result, the team is extremely passive in the case of the situation that cannot be opened, and finally loses the cruel playoff battle!
๐ If Adelman or Van Gundy had been in charge of the Denver Nuggets, would it have had been a different outcome?
