Rey
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RoCo 1-11? C'mon man ... we ain't beating good teams with that crap from our #3 guy!
Eventually. At first he seemed to be settling for too many shots fading away or otherwise outside of banging in the post. In a game where the sixers weren't hitting any 3's and the Cavs went with a C tandem of Love/Frye, which took him out of the paint defensively, should have done a better job of getting him in looks in the post to get them in foul trouble.Well Embiid came to play tonight. As for the others, well?
RoCo 1-11? C'mon man ... we ain't beating good teams with that crap from our #3 guy!
While I'm sure he's been working on it, I hope this experience gives him a little more urgency/importance on improving it.Ben needs to practice 100 free throws per day ... Washington almost came back to beat us in the 4th quarter by just sending Simmons to the free throw line. Gotta get that percentage up to at least 65%. Credit Ben for not seeming phased at all by the fouling, but we'll see a lot more of this until Ben gets to that mid 60% area.
While I'm sure he's been working on it, I hope this experience gives him a little more urgency/importance on improving it.
Game was blacked out here. Looking watching the gap close in that 4th quarter was painful and very slow to watch waiting for the box score to refresh.
No doubt. I was comforted by him answering the questions about the hack a ben by saying, i have to make the free throws, i'm not afraid of free throws, i'll make the free throws, etc... that being said, cat needs to work on his shot. his free throw attempts for that quarter was another record. some will focus on the new career high in points and rebounds, shit i'll do both and some new nba record for FTs in a quarter surpassing Ben Wallace and Dwight Howard, if that doesn't motivate you, I can't help you.I watched the whole thing ... very frustrating ... and it didn't help that Washington was burying every frigging shot and free throw they threw up in the 4th quarter. Horrible to watch for fans ... Ben just has to put in the work so that doesn't continue to happen.
It was blacked out on league pass (i use my brothers account who lives in Baltimore). If it's ESPN, TNT, and apparently NBA TV, it's blacked out. Didn't think NBA TV would have been.Where do you live? You can always get NBA league pass..
RoCo in most cases still does have that good defense, I say mostly, as I still don't know who was covering Booker. That being said, Booker seems like one of those streaky cats that can go off regardless. As far as scorers go, Joel and Simmons did their thing, granted it took Joel a few more shots, but he had some nice moves on display. I know it's weird to say for some who haven't watched this team play, but the loss of TJ, in my eyes, has hurt them. I don't know how to quantify it, but the cat plays well on both ends. I'm starting to wonder if Anderson as another perimeter defender isn't having an effect as well (or is it affect, fuck it who cares), still shitty to lose to the suns, onwards and upwards, as it were.Booker was unreal last night. We need another scorer. When RoCo is off, he's pretty much useless. At least when Reddick is off, he's slashing, running screens and trying to score off the dribble.