Just for grins here are their averages for the past ten games: Bayless: MPG: 23.2 PPG: 11 APG: 2.8 TO: 2.2 FG% 53% FGA 64 FGM 34 3PT% 30% (3/10) FT% 87% FTA 45 FTM 39 Steals: .5 Rebounds 2.1 Sergio: MPG: 20.8 PPG: 6.5 APG: 5.0 TO: 1.7 FG% 42% FGA: 61 FGM 26 3PT% 31% (6/19) FT% 70% FTA 10 FTM 7 Steals: .7 Rebounds 2.5 Read that however you like, but it's hardly the "huge advantage" for Sergio that Maris would have us think it is.
you do realize that the play by play doesn't tell you who was defending each player when they scored, right? like when terry is in the game along with kidd or barea for dallas and bayless is playing for portland, you've decided to somehow count all those points against bayless. now if he was guarding 2 players all game, no wonder why they scored so many points "on him". and you say that terry scored all 20 of his points "on bayless". so when terry shot the technical free throw(the t wasn't on bayless of course), that point counts against bayless?
The FT stats are staggering. Bayless is proving that the summer league wasn't a fluke. He can get to the line with the best of them.
Yeah, right. Everybody's picking on Roy and Bayless. Poor kids can't buy a break. I watched, although it was painful and embarrassing. They were clumsy, lazy, and slow, like they'd rather be watching a movie than competing. They looked like they were stat-packing and ignoring their teammates. They telegraphed their passes, and were not physical at all. I thought the refs were quite fair.
I specifically remember Terry hitting a fall-away jumper 1 on 1 over Aldridge after he and Bayless switched (surprise!) off a P&R. That was in the five minute span that I got to watch. Something tells me there were other examples. Half the time I don't know what our plan is on defense. That's the biggest area the team needs to work on. On one side of the floor we've got Dirk posting our PG up, and on the other we've got Oden rushing out to block a 3-pointer from a wide-open Terry. That's a recipe for distaster against the better teams.
You know, Sergio has had the starting spot for... what..... two weeks now? What has he done with it? This was his chance to shine and I haven't seen anything that would knock my socks off. I say give the kid a shot and see what he can do with it. It's only fair.
Yes, opposing viewpoints frighten posters such as NateBishop. He feels the need to not only let people know who he has blocked, but to also PM them and telling them to "deal with it". LMAO
We lost by 5. The Mavericks had to actually make FTs in the final seconds to secure the victory. I don't see why everyone thinks it was some horrible blowout. It wasn't.
i'm all for starting bayless, and i'm one of the few sergio supporters in here. sergio seems to run better in the second unit and bayless in the first anyways. chalk it up to another dumb move by nate. now i'll get blasted because we're 30-18 and how dare i question nate, funny that winning cures all.
this was a classic "the score was closer than the game actually was" scenario. sure we bombed some threes to make it close but we got WORKED tonight. everytime we got close in the second half they'd pull away again.
that's all it takes, you have to play 48 minutes of basketball, and we were never all that close in the 2nd half. i think we got it down to 4 once, before the hail mary threes. constantly fighting uphill on the road is rarely going to get you wins, we've gotten lucky a couple times already with that this season.
3 minutes left it was a 6 point game. yes it does appear that every time the blazers got close, the mavs would bring it back to double digits, but then the blazers also would bring that back down to a two possession game.
