Brook Lopez is going in the wrong direction. his defense is getting worse every game. His peformance tonite was about as bad as ive ever seen from him on the defensive end. every pick and roll he was involved in either resulted in an easy look or the team having to scramble to recover to help him out. We also allowed a ton of offensive rebounds because his breakdown onthe pick and roll forced other guys out of position for rebounds.
And we need to just stop calling him a rim protector. i dont care what the "FG% against at the rim" says. the dude gets finished on consistently by smaller players. guys go right around him with regularity. guys get right in his chest and finish in his face or draw fouls.
the sheer number of attempts at ther im he allows shows he isnt protecting it. I shutter at what the spurs are going to do in the pick and roll this next game
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Props to jarrett jack. everyone was killing the dude and about to make him the years scape goat but he has played well and really was huge in us coming back last night. sometimes he gets a bit shot happy but he has been doing agreat job getting to the rim. clean up the turnovers and he will be ok.
Dwill had a great stretch late as well, once our bench started to cool off early in the 4th. big game for both those guys getting us a much needed win.
Joe Johnson cant win. he takes alot of shots and its "how can he call the team out for being selfish then chuck away". he takes less shots and relegated to a catch and shoot guy and its "oh he call out the team and now hes checked out"
KG has looked pretty awful on both ends. but at least he is trying.
anderson has been decent and was again.
Mirza is the same guy every game, just whether his shot is on or not. had a big 3 tonite. needs to work on his conssitency.
Glad to see what got a win but this was nothng different then the prior 11 games. this effort gets us a loss vs 75% of the other teams in the league
Dwill had a great stretch late as well, once our bench started to cool off early in the 4th. big game for both those guys getting us a much needed win.
Joe Johnson cant win. he takes alot of shots and its "how can he call the team out for being selfish then chuck away". he takes less shots and relegated to a catch and shoot guy and its "oh he call out the team and now hes checked out"
KG has looked pretty awful on both ends. but at least he is trying.
anderson has been decent and was again.
Mirza is the same guy every game, just whether his shot is on or not. had a big 3 tonite. needs to work on his conssitency.
Glad to see what got a win but this was nothng different then the prior 11 games. this effort gets us a loss vs 75% of the other teams in the league
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Exactly. Nothing remotely to be excited about with this win. Had this team had their studs we would have been run off of the floor.
Lopez needs to be benched. Its mind blowing to see AK47 run off of the team while Lopez continue to play like ****
This franchise has once again showed me that having an optimistic outlook about where they are headed is a fool's gambit. Until their is a massive overhaul and cap clearing and a firing of Billy King this team is going to be sub par for the next two years.
Lopez needs to be benched. Its mind blowing to see AK47 run off of the team while Lopez continue to play like ****
This franchise has once again showed me that having an optimistic outlook about where they are headed is a fool's gambit. Until their is a massive overhaul and cap clearing and a firing of Billy King this team is going to be sub par for the next two years.
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Shut the game off after half time. Ugly game and really don't care that we won.
Remember the second quarter of the Phoenix game.... When nothing felt this terrible and we were up big on a pretty good Suns team? Then everything just went to **** from there.
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Remember the second quarter of the Phoenix game.... When nothing felt this terrible and we were up big on a pretty good Suns team? Then everything just went to **** from there.
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