Game 39: Charlotte Hornets (15-26) @ Phoenix Suns (15-23)

[itlnsunsfan]

Lets see how he does against very good and playoff teams before giving out a dollar value. Orlando missing starters and the Hornets are not benchmarks of much. Like role players who go off against the Suns.

He's been pretty consistent this year. Look at his game log. He's had some very good performances against playoff bound teams.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/o/oubreke01/gamelog/2020

I see a couple standouts against playoff teams while most of his really good games are against the bottom teams. Especially lately. He's a minus VS Denver, Lakers, Mavs, Rockets, Jazz, Celtics, Thunder AKA the teams above the Suns. I think in those games he's asked to think too smartly about defense/offense/teamwork. Makes his game suffer.

Well of course he's a minus in those games. We lost them and he played a lot of minutes. That's not an indicator of individual poor performance against playoff teams. It's an indicator that our team got stomped. Individually, he's been very strong.

[LesGrossman]

The two lowest scoring teams in the league. Thankfully the next two are both bottom 10 scoring too.

Honestly we should take both games. We've been a better road team and the knicks and hawks both suck. We just sort of suck, and are now healthy and the integrating should start gelling soon. If they can win both of those, I will start to entertain the playoff talk again. Good way to salvage the easier part of the schedule.

We should, but the Knicks might be feeling good about just beating Miami. They had an earlier 3 game winning streak (so our 4-6 in their last 10), but then lost 5 in a row before before the Miami game, however 3 of those losses were against the LA teams and Utah. The other two against us and the Pelicans....though we had to come back to win it.

But if we keep the defense up, and Booker gets his offense back we should be good. Might have to play bigger again though for rebounding, unless Oubre can outrebound some of those guys (not sure with Randle, Gibson and Robinson though, along with Morris). I don't know that we should go back to the two C lineup, but have to crash the boards and play tough D inside....and try to limit Morris' 3s...should probably put Bridges on him.

The key to winning really is the team- first approach. Move the ball, dont be sticky, dont be selfish. No whining, play hard on D. Every bit in itself should be doable but the lack of all of those has cost most of the games. Rarely was the team overwhelmed.

[hollywood6964]

Honestly we should take both games. We've been a better road team and the knicks and hawks both suck. We just sort of suck, and are now healthy and the integrating should start gelling soon. If they can win both of those, I will start to entertain the playoff talk again. Good way to salvage the easier part of the schedule.

We should, but the Knicks might be feeling good about just beating Miami. They had an earlier 3 game winning streak (so our 4-6 in their last 10), but then lost 5 in a row before before the Miami game, however 3 of those losses were against the LA teams and Utah. The other two against us and the Pelicans....though we had to come back to win it.

But if we keep the defense up, and Booker gets his offense back we should be good. Might have to play bigger again though for rebounding, unless Oubre can outrebound some of those guys (not sure with Randle, Gibson and Robinson though, along with Morris). I don't know that we should go back to the two C lineup, but have to crash the boards and play tough D inside....and try to limit Morris' 3s...should probably put Bridges on him.

The key to winning really is the team- first approach. Move the ball, dont be sticky, dont be selfish. No whining, play hard on D. Every bit in itself should be doable but the lack of all of those has cost most of the games. Rarely was the team overwhelmed.

In other words- no iso book.