Game Thread: Sacramento CSN 7pm (Pac) Dtv 755

OT:

DJ Augustin: 25 pts 11 ast.

This guy is beastin' this season, so far.

 

I agree LMA has played terrible lately but I do think he will turn it around soon. I think the whole team outside of Roy and Joel have played bad the last 3 games.

 

I wasn't as mad about Outlaw taking the shot but not using more of the shot clock. I still would have rather seen Travis try and get the ball to Roy.

 

How long will it take for Greg to make an impact on the defensive end?

 

Joel +23 and Travis +17 had great games, the rest were average to mediocre.

Roy was a -3 due to poor defense and our offense which totally stagnates with the ball in his hands.

We got outscored with him on the floor.

 

Meanwhile he shut down his, and a few teammate's, opponents.

W/O TO we lose.

http://www.nba.com/games/20081124/SACPOR/boxscore.html

 

LaMarcus may turn it around but I don't see too much potential. He is what he is, a jumpshooting, mediocre rebounder, timid on the block, soft post player. A slightly better version of Channing Frye.

 

I doubt it. Most people here are smart enough to realize that it was a bad shot, made or not.

Only KingSpeed would be praising Outlaw as Mr. 4th Quarter. Well, he still is praising him as Mr. 4th Quarter for his defense, but I guess he'll always find a reason.

We shouldn't have won this game, plain and simple. I guess we're just lucky at home.

 

Wrong. Without Roy and Joel we lose.

 

My first reaction was to defend Greg and point to the matchup problem that Hawes and Miller present by drawing him out to the perimeter, but you do raise an interesting point. Greg looks so tentative at times, like he's afraid to mess up. The result is that he looks lost a lot of times on defense and completely rushed and frantic on offense. He is clearly going through some pretty major adjustments getting used to NBA bigs, and I wonder a little if he's got the sort of mental toughness he's going to need for long term success in the League.

But yes, Joel is a fucking godsend ... No Joel and we're likely looking down the barrel of a 4-11 record at this point -- maybe worse?

 

Greg needs a good tounge lashing from Brandon...It's funny Greg looked really into the game in his first shift but everything after that was like the Suns game. Was Shaq in the stands?

 

A couple seasons, which is to be expected.

No way he should be expected to start this year. That's just stupid on Nate's part.

 

His jumper wasn't falling, but he had anything but a passive game on the offensive glass and was very active on defense; he's just in a monster "hitting" slump, it happens.

 

Most of his shots these past few games have been in the post. He's just missing them.

But I guess it's "what have you done for me lately?", right?

 

He's the number one overall pick ... I don't think he should be expected to be dominant, but saying that he shouldn't start is ludicrous. If he's not good enough to start then KP miscalculated badly and should have taken a different player.

 

But that's just the point - the "good" teams win these games - ugly or not. If we DIDN'T win, people would be bitching about how we need to learn how to win these games . . . because that's what good teams do. Well, we won. Take the win.

I find it very hard to believe that if he made the shot people would be retarded enough to say that he shouldn't have taken it or would be bitching about a made shot. Again, I'm not trying to blindly defend the shot (it was a bad shot) but on a team with more guys that are hesitant to take the shot when it counts than not, you gotta have some guys that are willing to pull the trigger . . . and willing to be the scapegoat if it misses.

 

Brandon was open, Outlaw didn't give it to him.

 

WOW, 42 combined TO's...doesn't get much worse than that.

 

lol...Channing.."They've got good players and we have Brandon"