Nuggets Season Preview: Denver Must Be On Guard to Go Far in 2009-10

Posted: 28th October 2009 by Rich Kurtzman in NBA
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What is the most important player on the court for a basketball team? The point guard. Luckily for the Nuggets, they landed veteran Chauncey Billups last offseason in a trade for Allen Iversonùa trade that has made the front officeÆs I.Q. look a mile high. Billups, the home town leader of the Nuggets, has been no-nonsense since his days at George Washington High School, and his approach to the NBA game greatly helped Denver make a huge turnaround in 2008-09. Billups has been largely credited, at times by head coach George Karl, for being the chief catalyst of the nuggets record-tying 54 wins in 2008-09; partly because he so easily adapts and accepts coaching. Karl changed DenverÆs style from ôfun and gunö to ôdefense firstö last year, ...

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