Hawks vs Grizz Observations
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:54 pm
Went to the game Wed night, what I saw for anyone who cares:
So I was panicked that we lost Carroll and our starting SG/SFs were coming off severe injuries. I still am somewhat concerned but looking at the team vs the Grizz:
We are incredibly deep at multiple positions. I still think we lack TALENT, but depth wise they really shored up a lot of positions. We have 3-4 rotation people at almost every position.
Horford/SPlitter/Tavares/Muscala- Center
Horford/Millsap/Muscala/Scott-PF
Millsap/Bazemore/Thabo/THJ/Korver-SF
Bazemore/Thabo/Korver/THJ-SG
Mack/DS/Teague-PG (I heard that Patterson COULD play PG in emergencies).
If you factor in that Splitter COULD play PF, Patterson makes the team you have another G, Holiday isnt even listed in my rotations. Have to think that one of those guys will show as much improvement as DMC did in the CMB system.
So , Macecase was right, i think the panic over the lack of SF depth was a little overstated especially by me. The starting 5 last night was
Teague
Korver
Baze
Millsap
AH
Off the bench was Thabo and Splitter. CMB mixed up the rotations vs the Grizz and at one point PM did play the 3 with AH and Splitter in the game.
Bazemore played decently, he does seem a little erratic at times but he is such a freak athlete. I will say, Jeff Green made him look TINY. I didnt realize how big Jeff Green was.
Overall the offense looked good, decisive, Teague played very well , AH shot 2 3 pointers in the first 5 minutes. Korver looked MUCH IMPROVED from when i saw him at the open practice. He was elevating and he looked "normal". Def looked like he had gained some conditioning. Thabo looked ok for about 2 min then looked gassed. He did make some nice plays on def, and hit a corner 3 .
THE #1 THING I NOTICED:
SPlitter and DS jawing at each other and DS being VISIBLY pissed off at TS. Towards the end of the half Splitter came up to set a pick and DS waived him off, but he waived him off by pouting and mouthing "WHAT THE ****". There was a foul, and Splitter came up to talk to him and DS just kind of shook his head and walked off. Splitter ended up talking to THJ who seemed to be explaining something to him.
There were SEVERAL instances where DS and TS were visibly upset with each other. Im not sure who was at fault, I would think it has to be TS since he is new, but Im not sure i like the body language out of DS.
So I was panicked that we lost Carroll and our starting SG/SFs were coming off severe injuries. I still am somewhat concerned but looking at the team vs the Grizz:
We are incredibly deep at multiple positions. I still think we lack TALENT, but depth wise they really shored up a lot of positions. We have 3-4 rotation people at almost every position.
Horford/SPlitter/Tavares/Muscala- Center
Horford/Millsap/Muscala/Scott-PF
Millsap/Bazemore/Thabo/THJ/Korver-SF
Bazemore/Thabo/Korver/THJ-SG
Mack/DS/Teague-PG (I heard that Patterson COULD play PG in emergencies).
If you factor in that Splitter COULD play PF, Patterson makes the team you have another G, Holiday isnt even listed in my rotations. Have to think that one of those guys will show as much improvement as DMC did in the CMB system.
So , Macecase was right, i think the panic over the lack of SF depth was a little overstated especially by me. The starting 5 last night was
Teague
Korver
Baze
Millsap
AH
Off the bench was Thabo and Splitter. CMB mixed up the rotations vs the Grizz and at one point PM did play the 3 with AH and Splitter in the game.
Bazemore played decently, he does seem a little erratic at times but he is such a freak athlete. I will say, Jeff Green made him look TINY. I didnt realize how big Jeff Green was.
Overall the offense looked good, decisive, Teague played very well , AH shot 2 3 pointers in the first 5 minutes. Korver looked MUCH IMPROVED from when i saw him at the open practice. He was elevating and he looked "normal". Def looked like he had gained some conditioning. Thabo looked ok for about 2 min then looked gassed. He did make some nice plays on def, and hit a corner 3 .
THE #1 THING I NOTICED:
SPlitter and DS jawing at each other and DS being VISIBLY pissed off at TS. Towards the end of the half Splitter came up to set a pick and DS waived him off, but he waived him off by pouting and mouthing "WHAT THE ****". There was a foul, and Splitter came up to talk to him and DS just kind of shook his head and walked off. Splitter ended up talking to THJ who seemed to be explaining something to him.
There were SEVERAL instances where DS and TS were visibly upset with each other. Im not sure who was at fault, I would think it has to be TS since he is new, but Im not sure i like the body language out of DS.