Built By Bandits

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900137556519064652012-01-19T16:15:55.303-07:00Built By BanditsHoratio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.comBlogger1431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-33272757224291468592009-11-29T11:25:00.000-07:002009-11-29T12:23:41.681-07:00Love beats the demon

Scattered AshesNuggets 105 - Lakers 79Just as it had on opening night, a silky snow fell on Denver as the Nuggets prepared for a formative foe in the first half of the ESPN double-header. Just as before, people donned scarfs, boots, gloves, hats and shivers to match their blue and gold. But this was not that night. On this night the snowflakes landed and withered, and the Nuggets didn't overrun a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-36932249224983738642009-11-19T13:18:00.002-07:002009-11-19T13:42:19.747-07:00I always thought I was fly like I had a pigeon on my back

Scattered AshesNuggets 102 - Bucks 108Look, it would be fun to make poetry and alliteration and nonsense of all of these, but sometimes you're team is just tired and it's the last game in a long road trip and you're playing the night after a thriller in another city and who the fuck are the Milwaukee Bucks anyways?And that's basically how the Nugs lost this game. You can't say they were

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-4091435101847542642009-11-19T11:17:00.000-07:002009-11-19T13:14:33.593-07:00When your bulldog barks and your canary sings

Scattered AshesNuggets 90 - Bulls 89It's good to be king.Even if just for this night, these few fought for fleeting seconds, that thin little little half-second fresh off of maybe and knee deep in history. Melo rolled into his friend Mike's house and Chauncey squashed the soiree by stealing the scene in a shocking, staggered squeaker. Riding in on a two game-losing streak, the Nugs were hardly

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-43680891159124630712009-11-15T21:54:00.000-07:002009-11-15T21:54:00.390-07:00Is it destruction that you're required to feel?/ Like somebody wants you, someone that's more for real?

Scattered AshesNuggets 88 - Heat 96/Nuggets 100 - Hawks 125Now!OK, so 82-0 isn't in the cards for anybody, ever. But as the Nuggets went all in with some awful hands last weekend, it was apparent that this is a team struggling and staggering to find the suffocating defensive identity that salvaged last season. Just as the Broncos were attacked from above by the Ravens a few days earlier, the

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-2894316537534254142009-11-11T10:09:00.001-07:002009-11-11T16:47:03.304-07:00Dudes actin' like they street when they barely sidewalk

Scattered AshesNuggets 111 - Pacers 93/Nuggets 122 - Nets 94I alluded to this last week but I will say it again: there is a sea change afoot in the NBA and the wary, wavy waters are causing everyone to stumble a little bit. How else to explain an overwhelmed, underage Thunder team pushing the defending champs to the brink of a mammoth upset? The monsters of the Magic losing to the passive and

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-85991073484910600282009-11-03T11:57:00.003-07:002009-11-03T17:08:36.808-07:00I wish for you a hundred years of success but it's my time

Scattered AshesNuggets 133 - Grizzlies 123And so begins the MVP talk.In 114 minutes of gametime Carmelo Anthony has scored 113 points. He is averaging 37/8/5. He leads the team in steals. He is doing the right things. He is saying the right things. He is the right thing. This is the kind of best behavior that gets your toddler his own mascot.Just as the Broncos snuck in to become the surprise

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-11526879160406204622009-11-01T09:28:00.001-07:002009-11-01T17:53:26.381-07:00My jewels, blue and yellow/ The type of shit that makes 'em call you Carmelo

Scattered AshesNuggets 97 - Trailblazers 94For whatever reason, Carmelo made his opening statement of the first week backwards. Wednesday night we had the exclamation point, the dramatically decisive dunk that still has the northern rim at the Pepsi Center trembling. In this game, we got the monologue that deserved that dunk.Like the "Always be closing" speech from Glengarry Glen Ross, the Melo

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-37661046939789460052009-10-29T19:16:00.000-06:002009-10-29T19:53:23.768-06:00I'm blowin' up like you thought I would

Scattered AshesNuggets 114 - Jazz 105I didn't believe he could jump that high. A few years ago, sure. Probably for most of his teens. But when I saw Carmelo make this play on Wednesday night, I was dumbfounded, shaken by something I wasn't prepared to fathom. Of course, I'm talking about the steal. Oh, the dunk was nice alright, but it was the absolute "touch the ceiling" vertical extension that

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-37029372499460052712009-10-28T12:36:00.002-06:002009-10-28T17:52:40.724-06:00Getting older only makes it harder to remember/ We are our only saviors

One day you separated yourself from the masses, split off and stepped up, stood taller than them, felt stronger than them, knew you were different from them. You escaped the Charm City to live a charmed life, waltzing into the big dance and skipping out with a net around your neck.You went big (shoulda gone bigger but Dumars got Darko'd) and you ended up in the D. The team was straight sitcom:

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-29514212727487683002009-04-22T18:09:00.003-06:002009-04-22T20:38:40.241-06:00I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same

Scattered AshesNuggets 113 - Hornets 84As the playoff premiere weekend ticked away, the upsets were mounting (Dallas winning in San Antonio, Philadelphia stealing a game in Orlando, Chicago shocking Boston) I began to nervously ponder whether the Nuggets were walking into a trap set by Chris Paul and the Hornets. It hardly seemed improbable, with Hornets healthy and hungry descending onto a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-7650478631486786952009-04-19T13:43:00.003-06:002009-04-19T18:37:06.671-06:00Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Generally, I think that postseason previews are a waste of time. If you have been faithfully following the team or sport in question, it should already be apparent what kind of results are in the post. Every word written about the Pistons-Cavs seriers or the Jazz-lakers series is a snowflake that will have melted before it reached the ground. It could also be said that any word written about a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-6171815134039134532009-04-02T16:59:00.003-06:002009-04-02T18:31:45.865-06:00If you don't get born again at least you'll get high as hell

That was quick. Advanced analysis forthcoming, but in the meantime, get to know the new guy. And as for you, Mr. McD? Right now you're more clown than champion. Welcome to the hot seat.

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-24967176193451189552009-04-02T13:57:00.002-06:002009-04-02T14:12:55.186-06:00We were wasps with new wings. Now we're bugs in the jar.

So....If you haven't figured it out over the past four months (frantically reloading the page before eventually gauging out your own eyes no doubt), I lied when I said I would be up on the Broncos, or the Nuggets, immediately following Christmas. Instead, time passed and made me a liar. Now we are two weeks away from the beginning of the NBA playoffs, I'm writing this on a new computer, and I'm

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-5926362086613282402008-12-28T23:42:00.002-07:002008-12-28T23:46:54.075-07:00Remind me to never go to the circus with you

(Ed. note: Horatio is a horrible liar. Instead of writing at length about the Bronco season leading up to the SD game, he will pull himself out of the morass of holiday season partying all day tomorrow, so that we may throw the final dirt on this clusterfuck of a campaign. The Nuggets stuff will trickle in after that. Adios)

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-58432914575656413082008-12-26T00:51:00.003-07:002008-12-26T01:07:16.770-07:00These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die

The best offices are the ones without timesheets.I've been off. School. Holidays. It happens. You would have missed me, if you were dependent. You would have copped if you were assertive. But you're nothing because you're nothing.And neither am I unless I am here. So this is the Kid punching in.Broncos: By the time that Sunday bullets fly.Nuggets: Next week. Beacuse we're all in this together.It

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-59913682232317121302008-11-26T19:45:00.001-07:002008-11-26T19:45:00.654-07:00They stumble that run fast

Scattered Ashes Nuggets 99 - Cavaliers 110And then they come back to Earth.After a week of steadily treading through unexplored territory, the Nuggets sidestepped indecisively on defense and took a major stride backwards. Or maybe it was just a sharp stumble, following a shove to the sternum from the soaring Cleveland C's.Like a bizarro act of vengeance towards the city for the Broncos comeback

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-84303180787938788452008-11-26T14:42:00.000-07:002008-11-26T15:06:02.580-07:00Like you and I, super high, like Superfly/ one more line, one more rhyme like groovy and fine

Scattered AshesNuggets 88 - Bobcats 80One last honeymoon romp. In the spot where Chauncey cried with his boys, in front of the man that never got to coach Melo, the freshly mined Nugs rode into tar Heel country and feathered the Bobcats with ease. These two teams that have no distinguishable history, but are overloaded with interlocking energies and associations. Larry Brown and George Karl,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-38382498415475241632008-11-26T03:23:00.001-07:002008-11-26T11:10:57.488-07:00I've seen you guys can shoot but there's more to the game than shooting. There's fundamentals and defense.

Scattered AshesNuggets 100 - Grizzlies 90This is the first game where they felt really reformed. Not rehabbed, just renovated, moving from the corners and covering charging children (seriously, Memphis is basically a college team these days. Except OJ Mayo is making less money). The Nugs nestled in here and made this team not Melo's, or Chauncey's, or Nene's (although for the first time in his

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-57318071496152461762008-11-26T02:56:00.001-07:002008-11-26T02:56:05.253-07:00Then is he thrive and I be cast away/ the worst was this: my love was my decay

Scattered AshesNuggets 108 - Mavericks 105Friday night in Denver, following a raucous night of celebrating the Broncos comeback and struggling to survive most of the morning and afternoon on Friday, I found myself sitting at the Pepsi Center with a bunch of friends, some local, some not, watching the new-look Nugs attempt to wash the taste of their home-opener washout out of their mouths and save

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-60916813164149916092008-11-25T16:23:00.000-07:002008-11-25T16:47:48.721-07:00The guys who last in this business are the guys who fly straight, low-key, quiet.

Dear Continental Traveler, You grind away at something, you motivate yourself with faith and desire, you hold out hope that maybe God, science and the planets will align, and this will be the day that everything you've been dreaming on finally comes to be. On an individual level, it can be anything: a job, a relationship, maybe just letting the time pass until you're old enough to sit down and

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-27687006441662930022008-11-23T13:45:00.001-07:002008-11-23T13:45:01.198-07:00I'm useless, but not for long. My future is coming on.

Scattered AshesNuggets 101 - Warriors 111I wanted to watch this game at home, but the television was occupied. So I wandered to the pizza and beer joint down the block. I had never been there before, but the atmosphere was welcome and low-key, the drinks were cheap, and the meatball sub sunk my hunger. I settled in, still in shock from the trade, and watched a Nuggets team visiting a state of

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-19816048078044531042008-11-19T01:53:00.000-07:002008-11-19T01:36:52.128-07:00Your laugh leaves life lines/ your love leaves bright bruises

Scattered AshesNuggets 97 - Lakers 104Argyle: Hey, Horatio!Horatio: Bwuuuhh? Who has awoken me?Argyle: What's up, man? It's me, Argyle from "Die Hard!"Horatio: Hey, how's it going? Anything new with you?Argyle: Not much, except I'm losin' my mind with excitement about the Nuggets!Horatio: Oh, yeah. I've got them covered at builtbybandits. I'm on top of their every dribble.Argyle: Naw, I think

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-52058812896176203782008-11-18T10:52:00.000-07:002008-11-18T23:02:15.989-07:00There was a feeling of dread, neither plainly confessed nor carefully concealed, which caused each to shift the responsibility upon another

Dear Continental Traveler, Ooh, this division is bad. The AFC West is just a nausea bomb, a lumpy, sticky turd rolling down a gutter toward a vomit-stained sewer grate. Whichever team wins the division will simply be the chunk of turd with the muddiest wad of gristle, obese and ugly enough to get caught in the grate to be gnawed on later by the mangy, dirt-clumped dog that is the NFL playoffs.

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-28308905404794611802008-11-12T14:39:00.003-07:002008-11-12T14:39:00.872-07:00Everybody's getting what they want behind some make-believe

Scattered AshesNuggets 113 - Clippers 103Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, but it wasn't until last year that it became my job. I began working at The Wizard's Chest, a toy store/costume shop that has been outfitting the metro Denver area with pirate hooks, witches hats, light sabers, princess wands, Sherlock Holmes pipes, fairy wings, and every other costume item necessary to craft

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-38920096533851480122008-11-04T23:58:00.005-07:002008-11-05T00:35:11.526-07:00And, lost each human trace, surrend'ring up/ thine individual being, shalt thou go

Dear Continental Traveler,A brutal blur of a beat down is the only way to describe the experience of watching the Pats pound the ponies. This game, a whole nation away from Oakland, took place in what can only be described by Denver fans as an increasingly familiar black hole. Everything the Broncos tried to do on offense, defense, or special teams was stopped, stifled and shattered. Shanny's

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-73502804858769056712008-10-31T00:20:00.003-06:002008-10-31T01:38:44.388-06:00So much damn confusion before my eyes/ but nothing seems to phase me, and this one still survives

Scattered AshesNuggets 94 - Jazz 98And just as fast as a leaf falls to the ground, we get to live bullets.The Nuggets hit the ground running in their season opener, taking a pre-Halloween trip into the Haunted House of Joseph Smith in Salt Lake City. Always the Nugs scrape their way uphill in Utah and always the Jazz step on their throat right at the edge of the cliff.This one was especially

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-877035098181361162008-10-29T15:40:00.001-06:002008-10-29T23:45:20.446-06:00Livin' in a citadel/ It's hard enough to be yourself/ Waiting for the bell to toll/ I'm wide awake now

So we come to the end of "wait until next year" by diving head first into the hardwood of a shiny new season. This Nuggets team is some kind of industrialized, post-modern nightmare. The chopped down the biggest "tree" in the land ("tree" was Kenyon Martin's nickname for Marcus Camby) and phased out honest, blue collar American grit (Eddie Najera, ironically enough). Now we get a bunch of partial

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-66721868811182090412008-10-29T00:18:00.001-06:002008-10-29T00:48:01.371-06:00Ticking away the moments that make up the dull day/ you fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way

Tonight begins my favorite season of any in sports: the long, uphill climb towards relevancy that the NBA goes through every fall, showing game after game every night of the week, until that one magic moment four months from now when the casual sports fan says, "whoa, basketball started?" That's right, this evening is the dawn of the NBA regular season and I, just like every other hardcore

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-8135845653471482182008-10-27T20:50:00.000-06:002008-10-27T22:50:37.222-06:00God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another

Dear Continental Traveler,I've been thinking for a couple of weeks about whether I wanted to write-up a eulogy of sorts for the disappointing and downtrodden season that the Rockies finished three weeks ago. It was apparent from the beginning, a shelling of Jeff Francis in St. Louis on opening day, that this team would struggle in a way that last year's star-crossed squad never did.In an odd way

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-68262408728784567972008-10-12T21:37:00.000-06:002008-10-12T22:40:22.861-06:00Honey Pie, you're not safe here

Dear Continental Traveler,Do you remember this dude?Remember how he was the heir apparent? He wasn't the holy ghost, but he was NFL royalty. He was the guy that beat out some character named Tom Brady for the starting job at Michigan. He was handed the keys to the defending Super Bowl champions (two-times, foo!) and promptly drove the car into the side of a Taco Bell. In 1999, it was a Griese

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-749133841485587702008-10-05T23:46:00.000-06:002008-10-05T23:32:55.549-06:00I've climbed the highest tree, now I'm stuck on a limb

Dear Continental Traveler,For me, one of the most frustrating aspects of being a fan in the NFL is that gut-wrenching experience that happens when your team completely lets you down. I'm not talking about when you have unreasonable expectations that aren't met, that disheartening moment when you realize that your team isn't destined to coalesce into a worst-to-first Cinderella. I'm talking about

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-31401230942423570432008-09-29T21:07:00.000-06:002008-09-29T23:35:40.907-06:00Walk between the rain drops, bitch!

(Yeah this is wicked late, but I never promised you timeliness. Tenderness yes, but timeliness...)Dear Continental Traveler,Last year it seemed that a Broncos team that bore expectations of being serviceable and somewhat bland, like a one-bedroom apartment or even a studio, turned out to be a cardboard refrigerator box under a gutter in a project alley. This years squad comes off like a castle,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-80070561746813746182008-09-17T23:20:00.000-06:002008-09-17T23:20:00.737-06:00I'll do what I can to help y'all. But the game is out there, and it's play or get played. That simple.

Dear Continental Traveler,This one would have killed you.Your head would have exploded in frustration, only to reassemble its pieces like the T-1000 and then fall off and roll across the floor, severed at the neck by a Washington Irving-channeling Jay Cutler. You would have dropped to your knees, perhaps with your hands thrown to the sky in rage, but more likely slack on the ground, right next to

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-11904994198292487902008-09-14T08:34:00.006-06:002008-09-14T12:41:57.268-06:00You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true?

(Important 3B programming note: Our Bronco coverage last season came in the form of Dear International Traveler, a letter directed to the World's Smartest Man, an old friend and Broncomaniac traveling Europe during the majority of the NFL season. The letter served the dual function of summarizing that week's game to him and depicting my increased frustration and dismay with the Broncos shitty,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-77999929227729236792008-09-10T12:43:00.002-06:002008-09-10T13:46:25.586-06:00How do you get from here to the rest of the world?

Let's try this again.I didn't die, just caught a dose of defeat. It was brewing within me for most of the spring. There were a lot of reasons, but the one relevant to this blog and its vaguely defined depiction of the Denver professional athletics community was the state of exhaustion that I impressed upon my soul as I tried to ignore the inevitable reality of the Denver Nuggets '08-'09 Season

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-19905121156116218682008-04-29T01:32:00.003-06:002008-04-29T01:39:47.400-06:00Round the dacay/ of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away

(important triple-B programming notice: Horatio has not given up on you or them, he is just having a difficult time congealing his DN emotions with his school schedule. But he was in attendance for games 3 &4 and will file season closing reports over the next few days. Most of his bile will be reserved for the exceptionally fair-weather Denver sports aristocracy. Don't fret y'all, the bombast is

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-58799490020065990502008-04-23T10:41:00.010-06:002008-04-23T14:15:43.215-06:00The best lack all conviction. while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity

Scattered AshesNuggets 114 - Lakers 128It wasn't a massacre, but what word would you use for the unremitting drubbing doled out by the Lake Show on Sunday afternoon? The Nuggets were unnerved by the Hollywood spotlight and shockingly unprepared, lacking both a game plan that could defend the passing lanes of the triangle offense and the kind of feral desperation expected as such rough beasts as

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-54337042156264166282008-04-20T12:39:00.006-06:002008-04-20T13:12:40.075-06:00Being certain that they and I/ But lived where motley is born:/ All changed, changed utterly:/ A terrible beauty is born

Scattered AshesNuggets 120 - Grizzlies 111This game mattered a lot less than the conversations about Melo's DUI that swirled around it. Now all that has died down and the only discussion of the Nugs in the national media, or the city of Denver itself, is how badly the Lakers will thump the Nugs in the first round. Few pundits are saying sweep but most are thinking it. What do I think?I think

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-31124028021743436372008-04-16T17:21:00.001-06:002008-04-16T18:20:19.899-06:00I've seen you before many times, and I always remembered you.

Scattered AshesNuggets 111 - Rockets 94On the last and most important Sunday of their season, the Nuggets were tasked with rebounding from a battering in Utah and defeating the feisty Rockets. Denver needed to maintain its infant's clutch on the eighth seed, but Houston was just as hungry, scrapping with two other teams for their division title and a top seed in the West. This game was a drop in

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-17481023509499945602008-04-15T21:33:00.000-06:002008-04-15T22:32:40.320-06:00It can't all be wedding cake/ It can't all be boiled away

Scattered AshesNuggets 97 - Jazz 124Two days after they aced a tough road test, the Nuggets went into the road arena in the L and got beat down. This was true to form as the Nuggets find themselves consistently underwhelming and over-matched by a Jazz team that has won the division for two years in a row and shows no sign of slowing. Most of the time Denver finds itself struggling so hard to keep

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-12082822077819538742008-04-15T20:26:00.000-06:002008-04-15T20:28:59.362-06:00I wanted to destroy something beautiful

Scattered AshesNuggets 114 - Warriors 105On Wednesday afternoon the winds of sports-related controversy, conquest and chaosswirled in the San Francisco bay area. The national media spotlight was ensnared in the web of politics, pageantry and protest that spun into town by the light of the Olympic Torch. There was minimal chaos and the torch persevered, as did the baseball Giants, which scored a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-31070454760099887482008-04-09T12:51:00.004-06:002008-04-09T14:00:22.344-06:00Nothing was all good or all bad either; it all depended.

Scattered AshesNuggets 117 - Clippers 99For the first time in about two weeks the Nuggets played a full 48 minute combination of offense and defense and they won with ease. Simple as that. Helps when you're playing the Clippers, but if last weekend taught us anything, it is that wins ain't free.Now it's Armageddon time. Two weeks ago, when the Nugs beat the Warriors in Denver on a Saturday night,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-80979594325870132862008-04-07T20:13:00.000-06:002008-04-07T21:02:20.965-06:00They scared to death, they scared to look, they shook/...'cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks

Scattered AshesNuggets 147 - Supersonics 151Maybe they're not crooks. Maybe they're not even crime-stoppers. Maybe they are just professional basketball players and they are dumbstruck, watching those days dwindle to an end.It feels strange to describe a team that i, as of the moment I am writing this, still in a playoff slot. It just doesn't feel as though they are. At the beginning of the

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-59523994114429146602008-04-07T11:26:00.000-06:002008-04-07T14:20:19.701-06:00I want you to use all of your powers and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him this way. Look how they massacred my boy.

Scattered AshesNuggets 115 - Kings 118Even after a heartbreaking, harrowing loss to the Kings at home last night, perhaps there is still the capacity in these Nuggets, with six games left on the schedule, to defy expectations. I feel confident in saying this because I myself am defying personal and anecdotal expectations by not filing this game report from the bottom of a bottle. It was that

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-22493747704986936442008-04-06T01:57:00.000-06:002008-04-06T03:09:36.893-06:00Luck had nothing to do with it. God reached down and graced a fool with wisdom.

Scattered AshesNuggets 126 - Suns 120I just realized that in every game for the past three weeks not only have the Nugs gone (well) over 100 points, their opponents have done the same. Moreover, the Nugs have only failed to reach 100 twice since the All-Star break. Whatever you think of their defense, their chemistry, their bench, their coach, his outfits, their ink, their sets, their stances,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-71514220896656656722008-04-06T01:31:00.000-06:002008-04-06T02:07:24.932-06:00Said they couldn't teach me/ So I guess I'm all learned out/ Saw my soul die/ Didn't fly, it just squirmed out

Scattered AshesNuggets 117 - Suns 132Disaster and disgrace in the desert.I don't know how to write about this game, in so many ways. In a literal sense, I started writing about it the night it was played, went back to do more later, and found that all of my work had been lost. D'oh.I don't know how to write about it from an analytical perspective. Denver scored 70 points in the first half and 47

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-2433681163628317542008-03-31T10:45:00.000-06:002008-03-31T12:20:21.578-06:00But don't trip if you faking alot/ I'll break you, shake you and take yo' spot

Scattered AshesNuggets 119 - Warriors 112All of them count from here on out.Not that the record to this point has been for shit, but this is the end of days. Going into the sixth week of March, there is a dogfight going on between the six teams at the top of the West and a pup scrap between Denver, Dallas and Golden State for 7 and 8. This one is absolutely crucial, with a Nuggets win wedging

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-39273681162979578942008-03-30T21:43:00.001-06:002008-03-30T22:44:20.767-06:00When your chances are nil, damn, gravity's ill

Scattered AshesNuggets 118 - Mavericks 105Is this that game?Is this the one where it all comes together? Is this victory over inconsistency and irrelevance? Is this the moment when madness and malevolent maneuvering mutate into a monstrous maelstrom of mountain-dwelling madmen marauding the Western Conference playoff picture? I believe it is.This game, the front half of a two-game home stand that

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-84855297654088188672008-03-27T13:05:00.000-06:002008-03-27T13:56:15.094-06:00One time you were a glowing young ruffian/ oh my god it was a million years ago

Scattered AshesNuggets 120 - Grizzlies 106I've been sitting here for days and days on end (eons, I swear) trying to come up with something interesting to say about this last Nuggets game. It was interesting to watch, don't get me wrong. Bill Simmons called it the kind of game that the Nugs tend to lose this season, and I am inclined to agree with him. To the surprise of the 12 people in

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-72150577613652092752008-03-26T21:27:00.000-06:002008-03-26T21:28:50.781-06:00I wanna be high, so high/ I want to be free to know/ The things I do are right

Scattered AshesNuggets 109 - Raptors 100At a matinee hour that usually finds the Nuggets rising from dreams of tattoos and tip drills, Denver instead saw itself north of the border for a meeting with Camby's old team, the Toronto Raptors. The first quarter was not a kind one for the Colorado Ambassadors (that sounds like the name of a debate team) as Denver fell behind by twelve.The reason for

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-49793771971058154632008-03-26T20:05:00.001-06:002008-03-26T21:02:32.417-06:00Ain't a damn thing come easy/ A lot of planning, bus rides and Eazy/ Fo' sheezy, believe me, believe me

Scattered AshesNuggets 125 - Nets 114Following the storybook atmosphere of AI's Philadelphia homecoming was a dose of NBA reality for the Nuggets on their visit to the New Jersey Nets; their own reality that is, as the Nuggets displayed their dogged determination to be one of the leagues dominant defensive disasters. This game was a lesser homecoming as Kenyon Martin visited the team that he went

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-53435040535882874702008-03-26T12:21:00.000-06:002008-03-26T13:52:32.696-06:00He made the world to be a grassy road/ Before her wandering feet

Scattered AshesNuggets 113 - 76ers 115Philly was forged from love.The love for humanity and democracy and their intertwined ascent. The love for independence and the glorious victory of liberty gracing your ears. Philly loves heroes, but not the kind with capes. OK, maybe just one. Philly even loves LOVE. Philly loves its legends. It loves its fans. And Philly phanatically loves its superstars (

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-19684181141882818432008-03-19T08:24:00.000-06:002008-03-19T11:26:45.108-06:00Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Scattered AshesNuggets 120 - Pistons 136So now it's a sideshow.For the last three days I've had homies coming out of the woodwork to say "168?!? Holy Shnykies!" Prognosticators and pundits were putting down their brackets long enough to argue that the Nugs are stars again, that the spark got started and here, on the night when Houston finally fell, here was the new: a Nuggets team cohering at the

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-71033821117723453352008-03-16T22:41:00.002-06:002008-03-16T23:10:10.402-06:00The dreams of men, the seeds of commonwealths, the germs of empires.

Scattered AshesNuggets 413 - Grizzlies, Raptors and Sonics 307Hey, I have those bracelets!I don't have a championship ring though. Neither does AI. But he's trying Ringo, he's trying reeeeeealll hard.It is all that he has left. Allen has won scoring titles. He has an MVP. He led a conference champion. The only question left regarding his Hall of Fame bust is what style of 'rows. But that ring,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-86813697323335676472008-03-12T11:47:00.000-06:002008-03-12T12:14:44.566-06:00I have the honor to call your attention to the fact that you seem to have deteriorated.

Scattered AshesNuggets 103 - Spurs 107Well, you had to know that this was coming.In a game that sweltered in the blood-spilled and broken bones atmosphere of a decisive playoff game, the Spurs took the best punch that the Nuggets had to offer and responded with a knockout roundhouse. This game dug a hole in my chest and buried itself in a blanket encompassing my heart. If Friday hadn't happened,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-3480584850540001642008-03-11T23:58:00.000-06:002008-03-12T00:45:11.990-06:00Turn away no more; why wilt thou turn away?

Scattered AshesNuggets 105 - Jazz 132Ouch.This game had already started when I left work. I had to go to Boulder on a private mission. On the way out of town I check the score on my phone. Tied at 16. Sweet.In Boulder, I hit Abo's for two slices before continuing on. The first quarter is ending. Utah by eight. Not so sweet.I stop by the old homestead. Utah by twenty three. Downright sour. Leave

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-37836079576163652432008-03-11T19:47:00.000-06:002008-03-11T21:26:26.573-06:00Remember your dreams are your only schemes/ So keep on pushin'

Scattered AshesNuggets 109 - Spurs 96Just because it's a mountain doesn't mean you can't fucking climb it.With the Nugs about to enter the most important stretch of the season and needing to make up two games just to be in the playoff conversation, Denver was abuzz with tension as the despicable and despised Spurs came to town. The Nuggets had beaten the Suns two nights before, but the Spurs were

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-36031715111363476482008-03-09T13:49:00.001-06:002008-03-09T16:28:28.227-06:00Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

Goodnight and goodbye my dear, dear friend.

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-38255890697492091802008-03-09T03:06:00.001-06:002008-03-09T03:13:49.157-06:00I wish that you were still a washing machine!

Scattered AshesNuggets 126 - Suns 113That is not a happy man up there. That's how you can tell that it's not a picture of me (well, that and some other stuff).So the Suns made their big trade and got the big Deez, but there are clearly some kinks to work out here, because these dudes looked awful on this night. Nash could push it and everybody else could run, but their heads seemed to be

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-61605024529944667522008-03-08T00:10:00.002-07:002008-03-09T00:50:56.716-07:00I don't recall ever graduatin' at all/ sometimes I feel I'm just a disappointment to y'all

(Ed. Note: Regular readers of this website [God, does anyone still use that word with regularity? I feel like I just said 'buggy'] will know that while Horatio does like to cut it close, he tries to stay on a consistent schedule of game reports coming before the next game. For the last couple of days myself and a few people very near to my heart have been living in DramaCity. Hopefully things

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-90718992796288283352008-03-04T11:10:00.001-07:002008-03-04T13:47:27.668-07:00Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch.

Scattered AshesNuggets 110 - Clippers 104I didn't work last week, but as a nod to the Wizard's Chest and the nerds playing in the Saturday afternoon Magic tournament (or is it L5R this week?) I would like to indulge you in some serious geekdom.The trades that tore through the NBA inspired a Dr. Frankenstein night for me on the roster management page in NBA Live 08. Basically I decided that, in a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-6937764145514646542008-02-27T22:29:00.002-07:002008-02-29T19:01:26.298-07:00Keep you in the dark/ You know they all pretend

Scattered AshesNuggets 138 - Sonics 96Damn, 82 games is a long season. I'm taking this one off and giving you something that is much more interesting than my drivel. Read this and then this. As far as this game, all that I will say is: doing this to bad teams, but letting good teams have their way with you only days later? That's not a good look Nuggets. The Big Burner is a team award, based on

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-86841196398136357822008-02-27T07:39:00.000-07:002008-02-27T20:25:57.803-07:00We are less than ghosts, for the time being, whenever this calamity befalls us.

Scattered AshesNuggets 93 - Pistons 98The first note that I wrote down for this game I actually wrote 20 minutes before it started. I was sitting at McCormick's and waiting for my incredibly self-involved bartender pull herself away from her friends at the end of the bar long enough to bring me a tab. I pulled out my notebook, gave a long sigh, and wrote : "I dread this."And I did. For the first

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-70638116511975486152008-02-25T14:22:00.000-07:002008-02-25T14:23:50.004-07:00Ho, you wanna hit? You gotta get your knees dirty/ Well that's my life, that's how it's cut

Scattered AshesNuggets 109 - bucks 115I went out to dinner on Saturday night, after work and before the game started. Benny's: the food is nice, but the margs are TNT. Good food, crewed up with the T-Bone and some of his people, a good dinner. The game started about halfway through the meal, on the flat screen right above our table. It's a laugher out the gate. The Nuggets win the first quarter

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-6400815707759050212008-02-23T11:19:00.005-07:002008-02-23T19:39:21.990-07:00Marlo Stanfield is not a man for this town.

Scattered AshesNuggets 121 - Bulls 135Success is the ultimate intangible.You can ball your ass of for all your youth. You can earn awards and set records and pop eyeballs and succeed so damn much at the second level, that you jump the next level and go to the last level. You walk right out of high school and into the NBA Draft and onto an NBA roster. You, J.R. Smith. And then you don't succeed at

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-2344642447243684852008-02-22T08:26:00.000-07:002008-02-22T09:41:17.220-07:00I made it out, I'm bringin' mad joy/ The doctor looked and said, "he's gonna be a bad boy"

Scattered AshesNuggets 124 - Celtics 118All-Star talk gave way to MVP candidates as KG and the Celtics came to compete against AI and the Nuggets. In the first action after the break, the best team in the East visited Denver to take on one of the many, many, many powerhouse teams in the league. This was the perfect game to start the second half of the season, the part of the season when rosters

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-76088854368271296962008-02-14T15:13:00.002-07:002008-02-14T15:27:59.415-07:00We work nights/ We some vampires

Scattered AshesNuggets 109 - Magic 98DP has got me on this one. Stablized thoughts to come, as I attempt to understand the snake-pit that the Western Conference has become. I'll be back with notes from All-Star weekend (live fromt eh couch!).Goodnight internet. Goodnight (and goodbye) Wire. Goodnight Nuggets. Goodnight everyone.

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-50160354915344892902008-02-13T05:15:00.000-07:002008-02-13T18:26:06.448-07:00Stay open/ Like 7/11, that's 24-7/ When you need some hot shit stop by and get you a beverage

Scattered AshesNuggets 114 - Heat 113Thank heavens! An honest to goodness shootout!Early on, I wasn't sure that it would even be worth waiting around for the second half. The Heat, fresh off of trading Shaq and with notorious malcontent Shawn Marion finally given a chance to let his jerky-upchuck heave of a shot plop from the sky all night, ran up a 42-28 lead. I knew that the Nuggets wouldn't

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-88580218580614928152008-02-12T14:05:00.000-07:002008-02-12T14:44:47.911-07:00Oh! How valiantly I seek to drive out of others' hearts what's clinched so fast in mine!

Scattered AshesNuggets 114 - Cavaliers 83Hanging out with the little dude, working on A-B-C's, while in Cleveland the Nugs are killing their X's and O's. Watched the score on my phone and between snatches of being with the fam. But we always have the original Tivo, our dear friend the box score. With its assistance, I am able to visualize...I imagine Melo playing with purpose and poise,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-80593678506685959542008-02-10T11:52:00.001-07:002008-02-10T13:39:14.369-07:00Wanna believe my own hype but it's too untrue/ The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

Scattered AshesNuggets 111 - Wizards 100The game first: Washington plays real hard, but this night, without Gil, without Tough Juice, and with your's truly in the house, there was next to no chance for the Wizards to hang with the Nuggets. By the time that the first quarter was over, I kinda had a feeling that it was no chance. Why you ask?My main man Melo. He scored the first 9 points for the

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-28569924606988700992008-02-08T19:04:00.000-07:002008-02-08T19:43:31.194-07:00For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Scattered AshesNuggets 115 - Jazz 118Then there's the other way.A huge dose of 3 steps forward and four steps back. An occupational hazard forgotten in the drawer of "Giving Your Best and It Not Mattering." Yeeeaaaarrrrrcccccchhhh. This game is a sour taste that waters my eyes. Denver and their dreams were dashed over dam borders. Deron did it and so did Ashton Korver.It looked to be a different

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-18377657946964098732008-02-06T18:44:00.000-07:002008-02-06T19:08:18.508-07:00And as we wind on down the road/ Our shadows taller than our soul

Scattered AshesNuggets 105 - Trail Blazers 103Before the Super Bowl started on Sunday, Fox showed a taped segment featuring the Giants players. The focus of the bit was the word "resiliency" and the way that the Giants embodied it with their play over the past month. It is a powerful truth, and one that implies not only success, but also failure, and the ability to transcend both in pursuit of a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-78993017367595781572008-02-04T17:26:00.000-07:002008-02-04T17:47:16.717-07:00My old man was born to rock/ He's still trying to beat the clock/ Think of me what you will/ I've got a little space to fill

Scattered AshesNuggets 117 - Bobcats 101Charlotte, possessors of the third worst record in the Eastern Conference, led this game by ten at the half. They held Denver at bay for most of the third. The Nugs needed to outscore the Bobcats 35-14 in the final quarter to end up with a score that betrays the tension of this game. I'm just saying Denver...I know that you guys like to put together a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-88062248784557342792008-02-02T18:26:00.000-07:002008-02-02T18:52:17.246-07:00We'll soon be home/ We'll soon be home/ We'll soon/ We'll soon soon soon be home

Scattered AshesNuggets 106 - Grizzlies 102Hey Memphis! Thanks for coming out! I see you Darko!As a surprise pocket of snow opened up over the Front Range on Wednesday night, the Denver Nuggets walked into the fourth quarter of their game with the abysmal Grizzlies down by five. It was the last game on a terrible road trip and as the Nugs walked onto the court (sans Melo again) their faces bore

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-29127641932312412082008-01-29T11:40:00.001-07:002008-01-29T13:24:02.619-07:00Well we scheme and we scheme but we always blow it/ We've yet to crash but we still might as well tow it

Scattered AshesNuggets 93 - Hornets 117Yikes indeed.That's Chris Paul. He might not make the All-Star game, played right here on his homecourt in New Orleans, because the west is that thick with guards. Does he deserve it? Probably. Will he make it? Yeah, as a reserve, and before Tony Parker or Steve Nash. CP-3 is going to get there because of his amazingly consistent ability to throw up games

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-252315886607626312008-01-28T12:48:00.000-07:002008-01-28T18:05:49.592-07:00And we don't know/ Just where our bones will rest/ To dust I guess/ Forgotten and absorbed into the Earth below

Scattered AshesNuggets 85 - Mavericks 90Dirk kills the Nugs. I don't know why but he always has. Maybe he feels slighted because Kenyon owns him in NBALive. Maybe Denver is just the one upper-tier team in the West that he can still intimidate. But anytime that I close my eyes and reflect on times that I saw the Mavs in person, I just see elbow jumpers from right outside the paint, the only

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-42833139685950367372008-01-26T19:48:00.000-07:002008-01-26T20:52:26.146-07:00When the lights go on again/ All over the world

Scattered AshesNuggets 100 - Nets 85All around the world and a million years ago Kenyon Martin rode with the New Jersey Nets to the NBA Finals twice in twelve months, with each foray finding Kenyon, J-Kidd and the other mutts on these "Suns before the Suns" teams finding themselves staring down the gullet of dynasties, the Jonah that emerged from the East and was rewarded with misery. Vince was

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-90684957364368681022008-01-24T21:35:00.000-07:002008-01-24T22:08:13.256-07:00Listen, I got one idea. One way I might buy myself a little room to breathe. But I need a big favor from you.

Scattered AshesNuggets 107 - Hawks 100So pled George to the basketball gods, scheduling sub-department, in a shameful fit of desperation and physical depreciation and lo, a gift: the Atlanta Hawks, served like lambs to slaughter.It was a revenge game, with Atlanta having beaten the Nugs in an embarrassing game last week that saw AI and J.R. ejected for cussin' at refs. The Nugs were missing Melo,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-75864385196939950902008-01-23T08:25:00.000-07:002008-01-23T13:28:34.855-07:00A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody

The Nugg JarNews and Notes from a DN day offWhat's up readers? Welcome back after a month off. That's right, the semester ended and I decided, one day at a time, to take a little vaycay from the B-Ball blogging biz and just enjoy the holidays (X-Mas, New Years, My Birthday) while still following the Nuggets everyday with as much fever and fanaticism as my immune system will allow. The team had

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-10796529688155444702007-12-20T16:49:00.000-07:002007-12-20T18:55:47.752-07:00Where I go I just don't know/ I might end up somewhere in Mexico/ When I find my piece of mind/ I'm gonna keep it for the end of time

The Nugg JarNews and Notes from a DN day offI was despondent when the week began.The Brawl-that-wasn't blew me away. I watched the beginning of the game at a bar, saw that it was a blowout, and went home. I got the call: "Melo punched somebody." I spent three hours watching the fallout. The whole next day I did the same. The Broncos beat the Cardinals that day but other than a bomb from the Son

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-41492311248471675462007-12-18T10:49:00.000-07:002007-12-18T11:11:22.388-07:00History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man

Scattered AshesNuggets 105 - Blazers 116Nothing is in sync here.Fire in the locker room. Blazers torching everything. Nugs back-to-back after beatdown from boring bullies.Big Burner: Iverson - 38/2/6/3 steals, no turnovers.New Pressure: TNT Thursday Primetime at the Can against the Rockets. Another chance for the Chuckster to rip AI.Bah humbug.

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-6053828479749279422007-12-15T18:49:00.000-07:002007-12-15T21:10:26.404-07:00Cheer up baby/ it wasn't really always quite so bad/ For every venom then that came out/ the antidote was had

Scattered AshesNuggets-Spurs. I haven't forgotten. My blue bleeds bitter for the grief that these Spurs have heaped on the L. Everyone owes them. No one owns them. Their operation is one of military precision and only the Nuggets have the soldiers to win a revolution. Every journey back into the breach is a chance to right the wrongs of before. Can Colorado come correct?(This liveblog is brought

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-87421452421225963022007-12-10T02:16:00.000-07:002007-12-10T02:38:23.530-07:00Marlo? Yeah, he was here, now he ain't.

(In a gesture of gross distaste for synchronicity, the international traveler has returned to the greater Los Angeles area. With four weeks left in the NFL season I will continue to give him his weekly dose of overwritten poorly analyzed Denver Bronco reporting. Please play along for the remainder of the campaign and remember that in ten years no one will remember anything about this season

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-8368213974261141832007-12-09T23:16:00.000-07:002007-12-10T02:41:30.840-07:00That's a force of nature. That's sweeping leaves on a windy day, whoever the hell you are.

Scattered AshesNuggets 101 - Kings 97So...I have a new theory.I was sitting up late last night as big fluffy flakes of snow settled over the city, watching the replay of the Nuggets narrow win over the Kings, biting my nails even though I already know that the Nugs fend off a furious Sacramento rally by the millimeters that Francisco Garcia's game-winning three missed and the grace of three

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-28729169644520667292007-12-07T12:45:00.000-07:002007-12-07T16:54:36.862-07:00You gotta get yours/ but fool, I gotta get mine

Scattered AshesNuggets 122 - Mavericks 109Back in their saddles again, the wild bunch rode into Dallas and used their big guns to win an old school Western Conference Shootout.AI had even more left from the night before. In the first minutes of the game he got to the line twice and would score a bunch of hoops as he helped the Nugs to 39 first quarter points. The Nugs got on top of the Mavs for

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-69752297915361113452007-12-06T11:55:00.000-07:002007-12-06T12:06:00.882-07:00And all the roads we have to walk are winding/ and all the lights that lead the way are blinding

Scattered AshesNuggets 107 - Lakers 111The first game that I remember of the Melo Anthony/Marcus Camby/Maybyner Hilario era Nuggets was a November game against the Magic. T-Mac dropped 51 but he was the only Orlando player to have a halfway decent scoring game and the Magic lost to the upstart Nuggets. I think it was a Friday night because I was driving to Boulder to rage and as I listened on the

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-56221722002917892122007-12-04T11:42:00.001-07:002007-12-04T11:56:23.976-07:00If they hate then let them hate/ and watch the money pile up

Scattered AshesNuggets 115 - Heat 89Blowout city.The Miami Heat had no game this night, no fire, no fury, no frustration, nothing. The Nugs romped them. Some of my favorite plays:-JR driving the hoop from the left wing and pulling Dr. J up-and-under reverse layup-Camby finding Melo for oop so unexpected none of the Heat players even jumped-Kenyon just destroying the ideas of gravity and emotional

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-87447287262156439192007-12-04T11:37:00.000-07:002007-12-04T11:41:31.205-07:00We crashed in like waves into the stars/ didn't want it didn't need it but we knew that we could see it so we opened up the door

Dear International Traveler,You've been here before.Remember six years ago when you and your fam took that trip to the bay to watch the Broncos play in Oakland? Remember how shitty those Raider fans treated you guys, how hostile and volatile they were? That night Jon Gruden led a furious band of rebels to the first Raiders victory over the Broncos in something like 4 years. Oakland made a

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-55653085693312044222007-12-02T13:39:00.000-07:002007-12-02T15:00:28.544-07:00And the day will come when you'll get away from it/ away from it/ sometimes everything is easy

Scattered AshesNuggets 123 - Clippers 107I have a new pet peeve with this team.It's not their fault. I'm sure they are not doing it intentionally. But everytime that I watch a game one of two things happens: 1. The Nugs get into a dogfight, a back and forth game with no clear favorite. I spend most of these games alternately cursing the TV and jumping around and cheering. These games tend to be

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-79533419356185890752007-11-30T15:01:00.000-07:002007-11-30T21:25:03.026-07:00Makes me wish that I could be a dog

Scattered AshesNuggets 99 - Lakers 127So...this is starting to look like a problem.Barkley called the Nugs out for not playing any defense, but with all due respect to Sir Charles, the real problem for the DN is their scoring. AI is averaging 24 per game, Melo is on for 25 per, and that's basically it. JR and Kleiza are both capable of contributing, but if they are both cold, and Kenyon or Camby

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-56184912411336628452007-11-28T19:12:00.000-07:002007-11-28T19:08:10.257-07:00Some times things gotta play hard.

Scattered AshesNuggets 110 - Pacers 112Oh JR.Don't get down. It was nothing man. Just a free throw. Down by three, two ticks left, three shots from the line? C'mon man that's not the easiest thing in the world for anybody. Ray Allen is 94% and he missed two that would have won it last night. It's all in the game man. This loss ain't on you.The start ain't on you. Spotting the other team 15? Going

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-4348468640274016952007-11-26T19:47:00.000-07:002007-11-26T19:51:26.899-07:00Our ideas held no water but we used them like a damn

Dear International Traveler,At long last my friend, your journey is almost over. So I want to give you some advice and I want you to listen carefully: Don't stop paying attention, not even for a second, until it is all over. Remember this lesson. It's one that the Broncos sure could have used yesterday afternoon.Chicago. Rainy, overcast, muddy and ugly. Denver came out with much of the purpose on

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-82895451955716135922007-11-25T01:00:00.001-07:002007-11-25T01:22:18.492-07:00You know what they say: "stupid criminals make stupid cops." I'm proud to be chasing this guy.

Scattered AshesNuggets 81 - Rockets 109Ka-boom! That sound you heard was me coming back to Earth after last night. The Nugs apparently rolled to H-Town complacent and out of rhythm. The Rockets, fresh off a stinging loss at the hands of the panicked Miami Heat, sat on there long flight home and talked about opening up the offense, getting T-Mac points within the flow of the game. Well shit,

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-29073157718404615302007-11-24T08:25:00.001-07:002007-11-24T08:55:26.235-07:00Big top like Ringling Brothers/ If you need to learn somethin' bring your mother

Scattered AshesNuggets 99 - Timberwolves 93Ever since the comeback against the Pacers, I have been waiting to see how the Nugs could perform in another close game. Blowouts are nice but they don't provide much of a gut-check. I wanted the real thing, a hard fought, tooth and nail battle royale to the death. Leave it to the Nuggets to get into one of those games against the worst team in the L.The

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-32831586613592501982007-11-21T23:51:00.000-07:002007-11-22T00:54:23.830-07:00You think nobody sees you, eating lunch behind the portables, loving some girl like she's all there is anywhere to you

Scattered AshesTuesday Night: Nuggets 112 - Bulls 91Wednesday Night: Nuggets 90 - Clippers 101Turkey two-fer, Dickens-style.Nugs romp on Bulls. Clips beat up Nugs.Nugs roll out big in both. Double-digit first quarter leads. Bulls buckle. Clips climb back.Rested at home against Chicago. Tired from a back-to-back in LA. The hunter becomes the hunted. One night it looks easy. The next night everyone

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-52307432360681444932007-11-21T22:48:00.000-07:002007-11-21T22:50:54.171-07:00Who they attracting with that line?/ Whats your name? What's your sign?/ Soon as they buy that wine I just creep up from behind

Dear International Traveler,I don't know how to feel about any of this.For the second time in the 22 days since the World Series ended, the Broncos played on Monday Night Football. They hosted the Tennessee Titans, a 6-3 crew with an electric QB and much more to play for than Denver in the AFC playoff chase. Actually, that last statement was a bit of hyperbole as the Broncos would grab the lead

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-87110522196816558562007-11-18T17:22:00.000-07:002007-11-18T17:17:34.321-07:00Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.

Scattered AshesNuggets 115 - Knicks 83Revenge baby.Enough words and time have been wasted on the Knicks at this point that I only have two points to make about the Nuggets opponent in this one. 1. Nothing sums Starbury up to me more than when he continually calls "And 1" on shots that clang off the rim. 2. Late in the game when it was obvious that the Nugs were going to win Reynaldo Balkman

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-69439796560583355042007-11-16T22:50:00.000-07:002007-11-17T00:07:11.539-07:00Your husband and me had this talk, and I told him to head home to avoid a dark result. But I didn't say it in thunder. Ma'am, listen to the thunder.

Scattered AshesNuggets 110 - Trail Blazers 93So why, if this game ended 48 hours ago, am I only writing about it now? Glad you asked.This was the DN's 4th win in a row, and their third blowout of those four. I wasn't sure how much I could say about a thumping of a team that the Nugs were expected to thump. I thought I might talk about how the Northwest division is already looking like a two-team

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-58250439025562764922007-11-12T22:08:00.001-07:002007-11-13T00:10:55.824-07:00B-B-Baby you are so damn fine to me/ And I remember the time, place, and the weather/ On the day you said hi to me

Scattered AshesNuggets 122 - Cavaliers 100Superstar galore! Global icon in the house! Pepsi Center packed! Coolio tearing the roof off at halftime! Hot damn!That's right, it was the annual Denver chapter of the Bird-Magic Sequel that has yet to materialize. These two are too close and play too rarely for this to be a legit rivalry but it is awesome to see them throwing their best at each other.

Horatio B. Tobloggin'http://www.blogger.com/profile/17738848265229414878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90013755651906465.post-66625291839387590702007-11-12T14:15:00.000-07:002007-11-12T13:42:29.852-07:00Ridin' decidin'/ cracked crab or lobster/ who say mobsters don't prosper

Dear International Traveler,This was unexpected.The Broncos haven't won a game in Kansas City in 5 years. They always get murdered there, always. They lost by 37! last week. Yeah, the Chiefs lost their good running back, and their QB is an old man, but dude, the Broncos just had nothing going for them at all headed into this. However, after the game it came out that last Wednesday, Shanny called

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