Not to say we shouldn't ever double, but in Game 5 we went completely overboard, choosing our spots poorly and letting Lakers not named Pau Gasol get on track for the first time in the series, giving them looks so ridiculously wide open their shots couldn't help but drop.

Sure, Kobe had been torching us for 30+ in the first four games, but we either won or had chances to win all of them.  Game 5 was the first time the Lakers experienced real, team-wide success against our D, and a lot of that seemed the result of our decision to move away from the defensive philosophy that got us here, one that used double-teams only as a last resort.

Bottom line?  if Kobe takes us down with a game for the ages, I can live with that.  What I can't live with is scrubs like Brown, Farmar and Vujacic slowly bleeding us out with uncontested three's and lay-ups. 

Let's hope we've made the adjustments necessary to send this thing back to L.A. for one last shot.  GO NUGGETS!!!