What happens next after getting owned by Kyrylo Fesenko?

Mixum, where did you get to see the game? Was there a channel showing it that I can ask for at the bar?

I kind of wish I could see us getting owned by a 7' Uk-russ-ian. I haven't found a way to see any games yet. Then again, if the Blazers and Comcast think they don't really count, maybe I should take their lead. Maybe you could, too.

 

Fun, let's play Box Score games.

1. LMA owned everyone on the court last night, if you're playing Box Score Basketball. 22/4 rebounds. I'm sure he would've had more, if we shot more than 61 times.

2. Lots of free throws, on both sides, so it doesn't look as if we couldn't stop someone and resorted to fouling, unless they did the same thing. (Double ownage?) Happens that way sometimes in Box Score Basketball.

3. Seemed like we were within 3% of their FG shooting, but lost by 25% in 3pt shooting. Maybe, instead of your thesis that our bigs got owned by a Uk-russ-ian, you could say that we were owned b/c our perimeter D couldn't stop their shooting from deep. Happens in Box Score Basketball.

4. Forget I said anything about perimeter D. Reading the box score tells me Deron Williams only had 15 pts. We must've shut him down! (Oh wait, that was in 24 minutes, making him miss only one shot and giving him 8 FTs. Maybe not).

5. Kirilenko had 9/5 without missing in just 16 minutes. Extrapolated out, that's a 27/15 in Box Score basketball!

6. The reason I said something about watching it on TV is b/c I've heard Wheels on the radio while watching a game. He doesn't (most radio guys can't) describe things like motion in the offense, how people are moving off the ball, etc. Maybe you're able to pick up the unspoken vibes through the ether, but I can't. Therefore, I make sure I can see (and post pictures, sometimes) of things I see about the flow of the game. I don't say "I heard it on the radio".

BTW, Wheels takes offense. Barrett is the biggest homer of all, and it's not close.

 

That's what I'm asking...how do you know that Dante was even guarding him?

I mean, when I look at the boxscore I see that Kyrylo played 22 minutes and Dante 25. Maybe they were matched up. But then again, Fysenko had a +/- of +11, and Dante had a +/- of 0. That means that 11 points of Utah's lead came when Fesenko was on the court while Dante wasn't. And since he had 17 points...

That's why I watch the games before making conclusions and then overreacting because of my conclusions. "Reading the fucking Boxscore" tells me that Dante shut down Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson, holding them to a combined 7-16 for 20pts and 8 rebounds. I'll take Dante defending two good PFs and holding them to that. "Reading the fucking boxscore" leads me to believe that LMA's porous defense let Fysenko score on 7 of 10 shots, which isn't news to me and isn't a huge problem b/c he also scored 22 and we're a bit short on big men, so I don't want to bench him.

Still wanna "read the fucking boxscore"?

 

I don't know. Neither of us saw the game. What's "hard to understand" is the contention that somehow, when Fesenko was in the game his team outscored the Blazers by 11. When Dante was in the game, it was even. Therefore, either Dante got destroyed by Fesenko and then destroyed someone else equally when Fesenko was out (possible), or it's not as big a deal as you're making it.

Not that I expect our backup "stretch" PF to defend opposing centers. If the problem we have is that our backup stretch PF can't guard 7'1 guys, I'm ok with that.

BTW, looking at the box score I see that there was a grand total of 22 minutes this game (out of a total of 240 possible) where there was a Utah Jazz player taller than 6'9 actually playing. You expect me to believe that it's a problem with Dante Cunningham that Fesenko scored 18 in those 22 minutes? ANd that we have a huge problem guarding other bigs? Who were Camby and LMA guarding in their 57 minutes? And how did they do? Did Wheels tell us that?

 

Are you saying Steven Hill or Randolph Sykes should've played instead? Or do you want Dampier? Who are you planning to pay-and-cut so we can get some more depth guarding backup 7-footers during the preseason?