Tuesday, July 10, 2007

It’s Just Summer League

(Boulder-CO) As the song states, “Summertime and the living’s easy”, certainly applied to the Denver Nuggets in their first Las Vegas Summer League showing against the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday. Denver won the game 108-104, but by the looks of the box score, this one was far more of a thrashing than the final tally indicates.

Denver launched out of the gate both offensively and defensively by scoring 31 points in the first quarter and following up that effort by posting 35 on the Clip-show in the second. They also held the Clippers to just 22 points in both of the first half quarters.

The Nuggets were paced offensively by Lamond Murry’s 17 points, also received great showings by Curtis Sumpter who scored 16 points, and both Jelani McCoy and (cringe) Nikoloz Tskitishvilis’ 14 points. Von Wafer played the most minutes for the Nuggets, but had a bad night from behind the three-point line finishing 0-4 with only 13 points in 27 minutes of play. Wafer also contributed four assists and three rebounds.

The next Nuggets summer league action is set for tonight at 4 pm MST and will be on NBATV. Don’t have NBATV? Don’t worry! I do and will be giving a complete breakdown of how the Nuggets look tonight against the Dallas Mavericks later this evening.

Go Nuggets!

No comments: