chonestown wrote:NGL, getting eldest son on "Home Improvement" vibes from the lad.
Horst needs to find our demonic era Randy Taylor
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chonestown wrote:NGL, getting eldest son on "Home Improvement" vibes from the lad.
emunney wrote: 1st half....
ANTETOKOUNBROS wrote:So did we trade this guy to the Pelicans too or not?
ANTETOKOUNBROS wrote:So did we trade this guy to the Pelicans too or not?
emunney wrote:1st half
- They are guarding each other to start.
- Dort switches off with the ball screen, Cheatham pieces Merrill's shot from the left wing.
- Dort goes glass in transition over the top of Merrill. Good effort by Merill backpedaling, staying perfectly vertical, but not a particularly difficult finish for Dort.
- Merrill gets tight around a screen and scores a glasser of an OOB play.
- Merrill gets stuck on a screen and Dort cruises through for a layup.
- Dort cheats too far off Merrill in the corner, Merrill drills the C&S 3.
- Looks like they've taken Merrill off Dort. Dort loses the handle. Merrill misses a transition 3 from above the left break off the back rim.
- Merrill misses a ~10 foot pull up from the left baseline to the right. (Dort is out of the game) Shooting foul on Merrill in transition going the other way.
- Merrill hits a nice looking jumper off the dribble near the right elbow coming right to left from the right baseline. Dort got clobbered by a screen. Merrill is excellent off ball screens, no difference here. Really gets tight, perfect pace.
- Merrill back on Dort now. Dort goes right through him for an and-1. Could have been a charge. Very close. Merrill looked like he was toast but got back in front.
- Dort tip dunk in transition.
- Dort runs Merrill off the line and Merrill misses a floater.
- Merrill back off Dort now. Dort hits a 3 from the top.
- Dort misses a layup. Merrill still off ball.
- Dort badly misses a 3 at the end of the half. Merrill sitting.
2nd half
- Dort stuck on another high screen and Merrill cruises in for an easy one.
- Dort comes right back down and gets to the rim to draw a foul. Merrill watching from the weakside corner.
- Dort loses track of Merrill on the weakside wing but gets back in time for Merrill to drain one in his eye.
- And-1 jumper for Dort on the body foul from Merrill in transition.
- Merrill beats Dort rejecting the screen with a hesitation move but is off balance and misses the layup (tipped in).
- Merrill beats Dort again with a right to left crossover. Merrill’s pull up threat really twisting Dort up. Misses the layup but draws a foul on the big.
- Dort hits another 3 from the top (not on Merrill)
- Tough drive for Dort right down the middle, another and-1.
- Bad perimeter foul sends Merrill to the line (Dort elsewhere), hits the first.
- Dort busts the zone by beating Merrill off the right wing and hitting a shooter on the opposite side from the paint.
- Dort gets past Merrill in transition (off a made FT) and throws down a huge dunk.
- Merrill catches Dort ball watching again and loses him to drain one from the top.
- Another great ball screen use for Merrill as Dort chases over and Merrill gets to the rim for an and-1.
- Merrill draws another foul after Dort switches off on a ball screen.
- Merrill on Dort again. Dort travels off the catch.
- Excellent anticipation by Merrill drawing a charge on Dort. He’s been hunting them. Finally gets one.
- Dort beats Merrill on a crossover and draws a foul on the help.
- Merrill beats Dort clean with an in and out in transition and draws a foul on the help. Possibly a cut dribble. CLEAN move either way. Both Merrill and Dort fouling bigs out left and right. GIFd this one.
- Merrill misses a pretty clean look from the left wing with Dort closing.
- Merrill gets a kick out off an offensive board and misses an off balance 15 foot floater. Uncharacteristically bad shot, looked like he got spooked by a late contest from Dort.
- Dort faceguarding off the inbounds, but then has a bad closeout in the corner and Merrill easily gets by him for a layup. Possibly instructed to run him off the line at all costs.
- Dort runs the shot clock down and gets downhill, Merrill can’t negotiate the screen and Dort fouls Queta out.
- Another high ISO with Merrill on Dort, Dort gets into the paint for a 2 foot runner.
- Dort hits two more FTs after Merrill fouls him coming out of an attempted backcourt trap that Dort just accelerated past.
- Foul and chase time.
Chuck Diesel wrote:Polygamist Pete Maravich
emunney wrote:
We need a man shaped like a chicken nugget with the shot selection of a 21st birthday party.
GHOSTofSIKMA wrote:
if you combined jabari parker, royal ivey, a shrimp and a ball sack youd have javon carter
trwi7 wrote:Will be practicing my best Australian accent for tomorrow.
"Hey ya wankers. I graduated from Aranmore back in 2010 and lost me yearbook. Is there any way you didgeridoos can send anotha yearbook me way?"
drone3 wrote:Just chuck Merill in the deep end, start him at SG. He will be fine, and give us much needed shot creation.
Jrue/Merill/Midds/Gianiss/Brook
AussieBuck wrote:I'm on this bandwagon, going to be calling him better than Bogdan after his second bucket.
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