MCW had an insane game. I saw pretty much most of that game before our game. He's got terrific length. I'll be honest, based on what I had seen before, he looked like a high turnover prone inefficient sort chucker. But he can be disruptive defensively, and definitely has talent. Only one game, but that's a pretty remarkable game. How many rookies almost drop a 20 pt NEAR quad-double on a team that's expected to be the worst-in-NBA-history sort bad to beat the defending champs in the first game of their career? Good stuff.
I saw a little bit (the ending primarily, and start of first) of the Brooklyn game. Deron was definitely rusty. Cleveland has got some nice talent, Tristan Thompson has looked great in pre-season, and looked good again today, too. I'm real surprised Bynum got some burn...
I was intrigued to see the Detroit team. TBH, thinking of a team with Jennings and Smoove as your leading shot takers is a scary though. Monroe was good, and Smoove has admittedly been knocking down perimeter shots (today and preseason). I think Billups was a real underrated acquisition though, he's a really stabilizing force for them.
Love is a beast. Hit the three to send it to OT. Was able to tune it right at that moment. KMart reunited with Adelman is gonna put up points. He struggled tonight, and still had 20.
Anthony Davis lookin good. Paul George taking his game to the superstar level? Dude had 24/6/5 in the first game, and 30/5/5 in this one. Durant could average 35+ PPG without Westbrook these first couple weeks of the season. 9-24 but had 42 points. Cousins also looked real good from what I saw in that 4th, nearly unstoppable. Lakers defense is horrible. And the Dragic/Bledsoe backcourt looked good...Dragic with 26/6/9, and Bledsoe with 22/7/6 or something along those lines. Miles Plumlee could be kinda underrated, he had a very good TRB% in his very limited minutes w/ the Pacers last season. If any advanced stat carries, IMO it's that one.
God I missed these NBA filled days.
