Carmelo Anthony Emerges From the Background & Leads the Nuggets Over the Hornets 105-99

In an interesting and very close game between two seemingly evenly matched teams, the Nuggets played a strong defense in the 2nd half, and made a good number of key shots in the 4th quarter, to come away with a win against a team that had beaten them earlier this season in another close game in Denver, the New Orleans Hornets. The final score was 105-99.

For the Nuggets, A.I. roughly equals Melo in offensive potential, and both need to have a big and roughly equal role in the offense. The Nuggets can't win if either one of them takes everything over. The attitude of Coach Karl, Iverson, and PG Anthony Carter had better not be "Let's forget about Melo, because he's usually double teamed and we can't figure out a way to get him into the heart of the offense. So we'll work a 4 on 3 offense and Melo will just be a decoy." If that's how it's going to be, then it's 4 or 5 games and out again this year for sure.

The above paragraphs are the 1st and the last paragraphs of the full game report, which is at the link. Following the game report, there are statistical summaries, including player ratings which allow you to see how well or badly a player did at a glance. (I am catching up with the Nuggets reports after a week of having to deal with other pressing matters.)