It's 2021 here in the UK (As it has been for some time for our Australian friends) so this is the first game of the year for me. Let's start as we mean to go on.
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It's 2021 here in the UK (As it has been for some time for our Australian friends) so this is the first game of the year for me. Let's start as we mean to go on.
Basketball.
These early season scores are wild. 76ers up by 40 in the 3rd on the 4-0 Magic.
That foul call challenge
There's only so much you can do with an offensive system that has to be designed around having a team with basically no consistently high level playmakers and decision makers. You have to try and compensate for the fact that you probably have at least 3 complete non-initiators on the floor at all times, probably 4 when bench rotations start happening. Hard to look like the 2016 Warriors on offense when that's the case.
Zion with a sweet screen and roll with Lonzo, good to see that pocket pass getting through early
Great skip pass from Ingram as he drove into the paint.
Much better offensive movement so far tonight
This is back to the early Monty days of over helping. Leave 3 point shooters wide open.
3's wide open and have been drained by OKC. Van Gundy needs to change his D philosophy otherwise we will be killed by 3pt practice sessions in real games.
It's a Ringling Bros / Barnum and Bailey Circus when opponents swing the ball around the perimeter; a real Chinese Fire Drill. It always provides for an open corner three.
Gave up seven threes in the first quarter. We scored just two.
Gave up 7 threes and still leading
How do you read into that?
It would be one thing if we had a bunch of good iso players but we don’t even have that. Ball is still growing as a player. Zion is as well. Bledsoe has been sucking something else from behind the 3 point line. Adams is Adams. Ingram is the only 3 way scorer. Not much Stan can do unless somebody else steps up.
Our offense in general was good. We took threes but they were mostly good ones, even if they missed. We dominated on the glass, only had 2 turnovers, shot better than 50% from 2, didn't foul, and had 8 assists on 13 made shots.
That's good stuff. Play consistently like that and it's much easier to weather bad shooting from 3.
Bledsoe drove, all the way, AND made the shot!
Sound the alarms!
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