Three Questions
Man, it's late, I've been working on the game writeup, and I'm tired, but I have to ask these questions:
1. Defense? Especially help defense?
2. Rebounding?
3. Bench play?
All three things need work. And those free throws...
Guess I should make it four things.
The Bucks seemed to play much more cohesively, especially with the ball in the hands of their (quicker) guards. The Nets might need to start worrying about that, as all the 'oops and one-on-one isolations in the world can't make up for lousy defense.
And, watch these Bucks this year. I picked them for 6th place in the conference, I'm not backing off that especially since Joe Smith didn't even play tonight.
The stat sheet - play close attention to the plus/minus of McInnis. Even if I didn't calculate it perfectly, you will see that when he was running the point and Kidd was on the bench he had a double-digit negative plus minus. That's what Jeffie was supposed to change, not be the second coming of Chris Childs...
Other stats - Krstic had 5 blocks, Kidd somehow was not dominating but was close to a triple double (12 points, 9 assists, 8 rebounds), RJ had 5 turnovers and McInnis, Robinson and Jackson, the first guys off the bench, had a combined 4 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.
Otherwise, aside from Collins, who was terrific early, and Krstic, who battled, not sure that any of the starters would be satisfied with their performances. Carter had 25, but they were padded late when the game was getting out of hand. RJ had a good, tough all around game, but still tried to force things inside far too often.
It'll get better. You know Lawrence Frank will demand it.
Stay classy, bloggers.
1. Defense? Especially help defense?
2. Rebounding?
3. Bench play?
All three things need work. And those free throws...
Guess I should make it four things.
The Bucks seemed to play much more cohesively, especially with the ball in the hands of their (quicker) guards. The Nets might need to start worrying about that, as all the 'oops and one-on-one isolations in the world can't make up for lousy defense.
And, watch these Bucks this year. I picked them for 6th place in the conference, I'm not backing off that especially since Joe Smith didn't even play tonight.
The stat sheet - play close attention to the plus/minus of McInnis. Even if I didn't calculate it perfectly, you will see that when he was running the point and Kidd was on the bench he had a double-digit negative plus minus. That's what Jeffie was supposed to change, not be the second coming of Chris Childs...
Other stats - Krstic had 5 blocks, Kidd somehow was not dominating but was close to a triple double (12 points, 9 assists, 8 rebounds), RJ had 5 turnovers and McInnis, Robinson and Jackson, the first guys off the bench, had a combined 4 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.
Otherwise, aside from Collins, who was terrific early, and Krstic, who battled, not sure that any of the starters would be satisfied with their performances. Carter had 25, but they were padded late when the game was getting out of hand. RJ had a good, tough all around game, but still tried to force things inside far too often.
It'll get better. You know Lawrence Frank will demand it.
Stay classy, bloggers.
2 Comments:
Oy!
Joe, I agree with you. This was not the way to start the season. But then again, Milwaukee has always given the Nets fits, even when the Nets had severely more talent than the Bucks.
What happened to Marc Jackson? Or for that matter, any member of the bench? Looking at the box score, it seemed as if the bench gave them nothing but semi-live bodies to throw on the court.
Isn't this the problem we tried to correct in the offseason?
I didn't watch the game because I was at work. I did tune into the game no WFAN on my dinner break and listened for the first 8 minutes before I had to go back inside.
Gee, I guess I didn't miss much afterwards?
Well, its only one game. I'm sure we'll come back and demolish Toronto on Friday though, and all will be forgotten.
Maybe.
As if last night's game wasn't bad enough. WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog show basically spent the entire first two hours ripping the Nets management apart over their declarations of an opening night sellout.
The CAA seats about 20,000+, but Francessa said there were 'maybe' 14,000 people there and 'rows and rows of empty seats in every section.'
They ripped the Nets PR and marketing departments to shreds.
It was not a pretty sight.
Talk about adding insult to injury.
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