Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

i wonder why the bball gods decided to lift the shooting curse tonight

AD made JJJ his b**** and showed who the real DPOY was last season

 

AD dominated JJJ tonight. You think he has extra beef against him?
The shooting- Our awful three point shooting team was anything but tonight!
Rest for the old man.
DLO on fire!
Austin solid again.
Cam has another great game.

This Tournament is just silly.
It would have been better if there was an incentive other than money-one that would give the winner an advantage in the playoffs like they get their entire first round series at home. Why do we care if Uber Rich ball players get richer by winning?

 

What went right: 22 of 37 from 3 one game after going 4 of 19 from downtown. Freakazoid! I wish we could've saved a night of hitting 22 3s for some game against DEN, BOS, PHI, MIN, or hell yea: SAC tomorrow night but hey: maybe our overall outside shooting game is getting a bit better.

SIX blocks by AD!

What went wrong: Lemme get back to ya'll on that. Not a lot to complain about. Ja-less MEM is weak tea.

It did feel good to beat up on a team though. The bench got a lot of garbage mins, but it was at least something.

 

It's on offense.. they aren't comparable on D. That was Javale's ticket to being in the League this long. Hayes is still trying to find his niche. He was active tonight and played well. Height, energy and fresh legs are useful too.

 

Battle of the Pacific tomorrow

 

I don’t understand the soft, “we don’t give a crap” first quarter attitude this season.
They just seem very uninterested to start games and I just don’t get it.
Hopefully, when Vando returns, he can change this pathetic attitude.

 

Lakers had 25 turnovers,Davis just took day off and forgot to arrive at Crypto

 

When the hell is Vincent supposed to be back?

 

For almost all my life as an NBA fan - a looong time: I'm ancient - I was impressed with triple doubles.

Then Brick came along. I almost feel like the triple-double stats need an asterisk next to a guy's name when he never won a ring. (I know, it took Big O to the end of his career and Kareem to get his, but it was a completely different league then.)

 

True

 

westbrick's triple doubles are frauds considering how his teammates would go out of their way to let him get rebounds

also, insane how jokic is already so high on that list

 

Nah..to get double digits in any category, is a notable accomplishment in the NBA period. A triple double is not an easy thing to do at this level. Magic is 3rd All Time and he only played 11 seasons. That s*** is still impressive to me.

 

The bad: it was a BTB. AR and AD were subpar. We fell into that damned 1st Q chasm yet again. (At some point do you point the finger at Ham?)

SAC isn't a good rebounding team but they still beat us 45-43. SAC made 16 3s, but I think 15 of those were in the first 38 minutes.

We made a lot of bad passes that led to fast break points. 23 turnovers. Felt like 43.

Sabonis: you look at him and think: how does this guy bang down low with the bigs of the NBA? But he does. And he plays really smart.

De'Aaron Fox is the real deal. Saw it last year. My gawd that end of the first half: 11 secs left. We had made a small run. Fox gets fouled. He misses the second FT, flies in and gets the board on his own miss, and hits a contested 3. His quickness is astonishing.

Christian Wood: 9 mins: 5/2/0. I want him to succeed. He's not mentally in some games. Or so it seems to me.

The Good: 5 steals by Cam; 4 by Bron. AD had another 4 blocks, but he was lax on offense for pretty much the entire game.

I had this as a loss, but FWIW that run to cut it to 10 with 2 minutes and change was not nothing. More mins for AD and Bron, though.

First home loss of the season. But it was on a BTB.

 

Yea, Magic did all that in only 11 seasons. And he won rings in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988. Never for one second did I think he was doing something in order to get a triple-double. He just made his teammates better and executed. Maybe I'm being unfair to Brick, but look at his place on the Triple-Double list. And ZERO rings.

(I'm also factoring in that he's kind of a d-bag and of course his performance playing with us. I'm biased, of course.)

Triple doubles are indeed impressive. But, to me, Brick took some of the shine off 'em.

 

Meh..some people just don't like Westbrook. Of the top 5 players on that list, he's the least skilled. Ring or not, for a 6'3 guy to get that many triple-doubles, that's impressive to me. Impressive to every other player on that list too.

I think what Jokic is doing as a 5, is incredible too. Whether he had won a ring or not.

 

Jokic @4 is just CRAZY.

 

Fox did what he does, we held him to under his average. Sabonis and Huerter were the difference tonight. Our schedule was very condensed lately, hopefully tired legs and we bounce back.

 

This was a scheduled loss and we didn't miss our appointment.

The Good
LBJ: in year 21, what more can you ask?
DLO: competed, shot really well
Cam: keeps killing it in his role
Team: cockroached (refused to die) it all throughout the game in a game we had 50% the energy or readiness of the opponent.

The Bad
The team: basically everyone else.
The fact that we came in on a rested back to back as ill-prepared as we were. Fox set the tempo from the opening seconds and they were off to the races.
AD: unexcused absence
Austin: back to back bothered him too. Shot wasn't there and was sloppy. props due for being aggressive on the glass at least.
Team Turnovers: fatigue turnovers. Lazy passes. Telegraphed plays. Kings capitalized on it -- 20 steals, 21 fast break points.


Silver lining: as bad as we were, if either AD showed up OR we take care of the basketball, we probably win this one.

 

Even leaving Sabonis, 29 pts, 16 reb, 7 ast out of the equation...

Let's look at:

Javale McGee: 8:49 minutes, 7 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast, 2 steals

Anthony Davis: 34:44 minutes, 9 pts, 9 reb, 0 ast, 0 steals

'Nuff said.