Kira looks good. NAW should be in the rotation now.
Not a total loss.
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Kira looks good. NAW should be in the rotation now.
Not a total loss.
They made it look respectable I guess
But this should incentivize Stan to make some changes to the lineup. It's very early in the season and nobody expects anything more than a 9th seed so... go for it.
Welll I don’t think that happened in the Gentry era. TNT pulling the plug
Maybe they should stop trying to do road west coast prime time game with a team that's only been together for a whole week.Originally Posted by 13 - 3
And that’s a wrap. Apparently the game ended we lose.
Tbh - I?m glad it went down like this in a way.
We needed to get Naw, Kira, and Jax out there. Had to. Felt like it?s been building up towards that ultimate decision so I wasn?t surprised we got smacked to get the wheels in motion. Bledsoe, Zo, and JJ have been so bad.
Funny as it sounds, I saw progress in several areas this game. On to the next.
Watch the Kings instead?
Great minutes for Nickeil and Kira. I can live with a rebuild if we are getting the young guys minutes. Bledsoe is playing himself out of the starting lineup (and any potential trade for that matter). You have to think he will get better, but it is very concerning.
Congratulations Minty on the win. Better luck for us next game.
I’ve never seen JJ so tilted before. That has been an interesting development. Miami broke him a bit.
Player Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks TOs PFs FG% 3PT% FT% Mins Ingram 13 6 6 1 0 4 0 54.5% (6/11) 20% (1/5) NA 28 Zion 20 2 0 1 0 1 1 69.2%(9/13) NA 33.3%(2/6) 29 Adams 11 8 1 0 1 4 1 100% (5/5) NA 50% (1/2) 23 Bledsoe 7 0 2 1 0 0 0 60% (3/5) 0% (0/2) 100% (1/1) 24 Lonzo 7 0 1 0 0 3 2 25% (3/12) 14.2%(1/7) NA 23
Some pretty stark issues here. Assists way down on past games among starters. Rebounding, WAY down. Lonzo returned to his usual self with efficiency, and did not make up for it with playmaking or defense. Turnovers cropped up again. Nobody could hit anything from 3. Ingram didn't get *any* whistles. Bledsoe was yet again a non-factor.
Tragic.
Edit: side note, I did a table instead of just a list for the endgame stats, though only for starters. Not sure if I'll keep doing it this way.
Basketball.
Lonzo sucking is the best case scenario so we don't have to pay him. One of the three positives from this game.
The other two being Kira and NAW
If they do to NAW and Kira what they did to Buddy, I'll be mad.
The people to trade are Lonzo and JJ. NAW and Kira are exactly why you draft.
Three Assists combined from your starting guard tandem. SMH
None from ZION.
Give him time. He is still young and can do no wrong. I am sure he made up for it with a bunch of defensive rebounds
@mcnamara247
I hear you and agree.
Lol of course.
Four Personal Fouls from our five starters. Contrary to popular belief, this is a very telling statistic. We are not aggressive defensively!! But the eye test is all you really need to know this.
I say what the heck and get Kira more PT. Imma give Bled and Lonzo a chance. But if it's at 20 games and it's still sub-par, one, if not both, have to go.
EDIT: Melli can also bounce too.
Last edited by hornetzplaya; 12-29-2020 at 11:45 PM.
Name FG% 3PT% Brandon Ingram 45.7% (32/70) 41.2% (10/24) Zion Williamson 53.1% (34/64) 0.00% (0/2) Steven Adams 76.1% (16/21) N/A Eric Bledsoe 36.8% (13/38) 28.6% (6/21) Lonzo Ball 37.2% (16/43) 28.6% (8/28)
Our Starters FG% at this point, 4 games in.
Not the prettiest of numbers, overall. Obviously there are some bright spots, like Ingram's 3pt% and Adams' overall efficiency, while Zion's is still solid even if we hope to see it increase, but Lonzo and Bledsoe are both just glaring voids in the offense so far this year.
Zion has been a liability defensively...just sad that we may never see that Duke Zion especially on the defensive end.... i know it's early, but Ja morant impacts the game way more than Zion and can will his team to wins despite having a pretty meh teammates.
Our starting backcourt is a liability on offense. They offer very little value to Ingram and Zion.
really guys? There are a hundred milion things you could pick out about Zion's performance tonight and you choose assists? Seriously?
On a positive note, it's been a few years since we were .500 this deep into the season.
It's early man, stay patient. Concern is healthy, but there's a long way to go before we start questioning stuff like that.
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