WOW Noah's been playing really well. He just left Wallace alone for an open 3. Boylan looks to the bench and fingers Nocioni. Gordon 2 offensive boards and has it taken out of his hands, fast break bobcats layup.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jan 2 2008, 08:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>WOW Noah's been playing really well. He just left Wallace alone for an open 3. Boylan looks to the bench and fingers Nocioni.</div> It looked like Joe Smith did that to me. Probably wrong, though. Bulls are letting Bobcats shoot .528.
It was definately Noah who left Wallace alone. Only reason Nocioni didn't get in the game quicker is Noah got the ball on offense and drew the foul and shot FTs. Nocioni came in after Charlotte ran up a bigger lead and Boylan called the timeout.
Beautiful teamwork leading to a 3 by Gordon. I don't think defense is the be-all, end-all but letting Charlotte shoot .512 and goto the line 17 times is inexcusable.
I'd have to check but I don't think Gordon has ever gotten 4 offensive rebounds in a game before. He didn't exactly take advantage of the opportunities though.
http://sportstwo.com/NBA/PlayerLog/2055846 At least this season, he had 3 against the Spurs and 4 for the whole month of November!
I am not sure what I'm seeing on offense here. It's not Skiles' regular offense. I'm seeing two guards at the top of the key, basically, most of the time.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jan 2 2008, 08:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I am not sure what I'm seeing on offense here. It's not Skiles' regular offense. I'm seeing two guards at the top of the key, basically, most of the time.</div> I'm seeing this too. It's pretty striking because Skiles used 2 plays 90% of the time.
Hinrich just went below the screen leaving Wallace wide open for the 3. Right when we were looking like we might tie it up.
After that rebound by Deng off his on FT miss, the Bulls did run a Skiles play. Hinrich at the top of the key, use the pick, two guys standing in the corners.