Game was crazy. Me and my dad went down to hella low seats during halftime and the players were shooting. I was like 15 feet away from Ellis and Jackson. I was about to scream "Monta", but then some gay *** asked us to show our tickets. Then we had to go back up. Overtimes were sick though. I paid 8 bucks for the tickets lol. Maggette was getting a lot of shit from the crowd because of his free throw shooting.
I totally agree. Also, I specifically watched Morrow and Randolph on every play during the 4th quarter and overtime -- I mean I tried to watch them regardless of the play or where the ball was. See if they were making cuts, boxing out, setting screens. It was hilarious. Basically, Morrow was the team's best player down the stretch, and that must have made Crawford and Watson jealous, because they absolutely refused to pass to him. After he scored on two or three jumpers in a row, the team didn't pass to Morrow again for the last 5 or 6 minutes of the quarter. Not ONCE! Did he let that stop him? No! Morrow still tipped in two putbacks off the glass and tallied 9 rebounds in his limited stint. But it was sad. I absolutely cannot believe that he didn't get a single pass during that stretch. Later, in overtime I think, Nellie must have run a play specifically for him, because he got a screen and roll off jumper that looked totally designed. He missed it, and that was it. If they would have kept feeding him -- feeding the hot hand during that stretch -- they wouldn't have needed to go to overtime. Because he probably would've dropped about 15 straight points. But Crawford and Watson are incapable of understanding how to hit the hot hand, because they're not point guards. They can mentally "try" to do it when the coaches ride them, or if they want to impress or make a "statement" that they can play the point. But once the adrenaline hits, and the instincts take over, they can't "fake" it anymore; they suck at playing PG. On the flipside, Watson was absolutely on fire too, and he was banging in jumpers like mad. Crawford, on the other hand, had another one of those meaningless 30 point games. He shot the ball constantly (13-31 FG), and did little else to make his teammates better or help on defense. Biedrins and Morrow were the team's best players. Randolph had some vitality too but it's almost like being under Nellie, and playing with these knuckleheads Crawford and Maggette, is hurting his development. If he were on a team like Atlanta or Toronto I could see him already being a double-double starter.
