Juwan Howard the Sole Survivor

by Jeremy on Oct 23, 2008 2:55 PM MDT in News Comment 5 comments

According to the Rocky Mountain News Juwan Howard is the one Nugget with a non guaranteed contract who will start the regular season with the team. Ruben Patterson, Nick Fazekas, Smush Parker, Mateen Cleaves and James Mays have been sent packing.

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I like it...

We have a solid roster and can go at least 8-9 deep into the bench.
Go Nuggs!

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by abaca15 on Oct 23, 2008 6:08 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

your CUT

why didnt they keep smush parker, he is a PG right?
and at 6 4 i think and can shoot 3’s cant he.

by shovel and spade on Oct 24, 2008 1:21 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Money

I think not keeping Parker, Cleaves or Patterson comes down to money. Plus the key reason they would have kept Parker was his ability to apply full court pressure on the ball and I think they believe Dahntay Jones can fill that role for them. Ultimately I think they believe Parker, Cleaves and Patterson had skills that duplicated what other players already were capable of and keeping them would have been superfluous.

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by Jeremy on Oct 24, 2008 1:28 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Have to disagree

If Smush and Patterson were free, we would have kept them. I thought Patterson was quite impressive this preseason; efficient and committed on D, by no means a duplication of anything else on our roster, and he can still score. He is probably the guy I would have kept if we could only keep one. But its probably not a terrible idea to keep a balls-to-the-wall-emergency guy like Juwan around. Bit disappointed, those guys played hard for us.

by joshhopp on Oct 24, 2008 4:13 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs