Good win tonight. Was physically challenging. Our guards have to defend better in the future.
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Good win tonight. Was physically challenging. Our guards have to defend better in the future.
Good win
Given all of the early-season drama, 3-2 is pretty good.
nice game, roberts seems arrived now i guess. and davis was great. anderson was a killer and aminu , damn i love this kid. proud of our team, and now i can go to bed and have sweet dreams. (about future titels and stuff :D )
Man, Davis was overrated coming out of college :hihi:
He sucks.
To be fair, I don't feel like Gordon's shots were uncontested or badly contested in general. I think was the 1/10 games where it will be beneficial for Gordon to shoot indiscriminately.
Ryan Anderson displayed a lot of versatility tonight. Very excited about him moving forward.
Aminu had a great bounce-back game from the horrendous showing against Philly. Good to see from the young player.
Rivers needs to attack more because good things happen when he does. He just looks timid on the floor, and I'm not used to seeing that from him. Once he gets comfortable, he'll be a good player for us because he is already showing flashes. Needs to work on that shot more though.
Miller looked nice, and he his a few 3s for us.
Lopez had a fantastic game. Totally under the radar, but he did all of the little things, and it shows by his team leading +10 in the +/- category.
Roberts had a nice offensive game, but he missed so many open players it made me sick. Guy could have had like 5 more assists this game, but he was only focused on his own offense. Defense wasn't great either...
Awesome win! Really encouraging for sure.
Not sure if I agree with that 100%. The Hornets defensive philosophy is to defend the paint first and foremost. Force opposing teams to take lower percentage shots from mid-range out to the three while using shot clock. Honestly, the Hornets need better perimeter defenders who can fight through screens and force tough shots.
We just don't have any bulldog type of defender who can fight off screens and stay on certain players half the time.
Anderson got going making easier shots in the paint.
Can't give Aminu a pass for the last game. Too many turnovers and settled for bad shots. Responded very well tonight.
But he had to force the issue. Our guards were incapable of breaking the Sixers' D down and penetrating. Without penetration, it's hard to get easy shots. And so Aminu often found himself 25 feet from the basketball with the ball. That's not his game. He was asked to do way too much.
Solid win for the Hornets tonight.
Anderson and Davis were absolute monsters.
If a team has their screen game down pat, there is nothing you can do except to hedge and switch just as well as the opposing team screens. The Hornets were not switching very well and Gordon got hot with open looks. Add to that even sometimes when they did switch well, he still hit the shot over the taller switching Aminu.
Still, the team needed to do a better job switching on their guards and didn't make that adjustments until the 3rd quarter.
I'm glad they got this one tonight. The rest of November ain't looking to pleasant, and yet another team with solid guards is next.
Please just come out of this month at or near .500 and I consider that a major success.
Add Gordon to this group, and we are actually a very good team. Exciting time to be a Hornets fan.
This team needs Gordon's $15 million cap space more than it needs Gordon.
(And before you say anything I'll keep saying that as long as people keep pining for that bum.)
Im beyond annoyed with Gordon.... Im speechless of how bad of a little baby he is.
after tonight we will have 4 players among the top 40 in blocks.
Anthony Davis is third in the 'per minute' Hollinger ratings
Aminu is third among SF's in rebound rate
Im loving Aminu's play actually, except for the awful looking jumper, I like his play alot.
They were not just spot up jump shots blind man. They were curls off of multiple screens.
Whoever is responsible is the one responsible for the switch off the screen, which can be Aminu/Anderson switching permanently, or the bigs hedging harder. It most certainly is more complicated that our guards just fighting through 20 screens unless you just rather they just run over the screener everytime and foul out. Basic physics really.
I'll just take it you know nothing about how team defense works and leave it at that. Eyes wide open and all.
You really must watch none of the game. How many times was rivers one on one with Gordon and Gordon scored on a jump shot? There was even some on here complaining that rivers was not contesting the shots. I'll just assume that you dont pay attention to the game or just dont understand team defense because that had nothing to do with Gordon scoring 1 on 1.
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Look at the official on the floor. LOL.
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MKG don't look too happy.
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He didn't contest due to trying to run over screens and not being position to contest. If you WATCHED the 2nd half, the Hornets starting switching longer defenders on their guards and even went to the trap. Gordon still hit shots over Aminu AFTER THE SWITCH but it was much more difficult in the 2nd half when they did it.
They obviously saw what my blind eyes saw and played their guards differently in the 2nd half. It worked slightly better, but that is how you play those high screens and guards with hot hands. It's not just on our guards against an offense like that and it was not just Rivers getting beat one on one.
Rewatch the game and you'll see what I mean.
***or just look at the top pick in those photos HunnyB just posted** :hihi:
I can say this, someone said he doesn't even leave his feet when he contests shot.
You're not supposed to leave your feet to contest jump shots.
great win..fun game..sucks to have 4 days off now
The one thing I got out of this game over anything else was the 'chemistry plays' sometimes when we weren't running an offensive set, or it broke down our players were able to make good decisions based on their counterparts tendencies. You saw the ball kicked out to who it should have been, and one specific play where Roberts fumbles the ball, Anderson picked it up and jammed it in to AD for the slam. That's an excellent sign when we can get broken plays to go our way, granted it is the Bob scats
Do you think team defense is a big coming to the top of the key and extending their arms on a screen???? Every big in the NBA does that. We are running zone 95% of the time where Lopez Davis and smith roam the paint and rotate to the pentrating guys. There is no help defense out on the preimeter if there isn't a pick or penetration.
Bigs help on screens and P&R's but it isn't soley their responsibility, the defense from our guards still needs to improve which is what I first said. Davis and Lopez played great 1 on 1 and team defense tonight I'm not going to blame them.
**and Davis is where he is supposed to be, around the paint helping out the penetrating gaurd. While rivers watches**
No, helping on screens by just extending your arms (simple hedging as opposed to hard) is not what I'm talking about. Just re-watch the game, and see the difference from the 1st half to what they did in the 2nd. The pic was just to illustrate, as I said, Charlotte was screening very heavy while you were under the impression it was just Rivers not keeping up one-on-one on simple jump shots.
Game re-airs at midnight.
Speaking of this, first off let me say I think one of Rivers biggest problems is that he has no mid range game at all. He may go the entire season without making a midrange jumper. Anyways, in regards to Rivers and Gordon (both can get to the rim), do you hedge hard on these guys and leave our big to pop out if he wants or roll to the basket, or do you not hedge hard and let Rivers or Gordon get around their man to the basket? The possibilities are endless.
Just imagine it, Anderson sets a pick for Gordon, who works the screen and gets around his man to finish at the rim because Anderson's man respected Anderson's jumper and didn't want to leave him. The next time, Anderson's man respects Gordon ability to drive and Anderson rolls to an open area and Gordon hits him for a wide open three.
My god.