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Thumbs up to Hayes on tonight's game. It was quiet, so quiet that I didn't even realize until looking at the box score, but he did some nice work on offense. 14 points isn't that out of the ordinary for him, but doing it on better than 50% shooting? Good work on that.
Williams, Mourning, and Planinic managed to go 19-30 from the field for 44 points. I can't imagine RJ getting much better help than that until Kidd is back, but we managed to win anyways. Maybe everyone was right when they said the Nets just aren't good enough on offense to keep up with us. I mean, 86 points on 44% shooting is practically an explosion for them (specifically the percentage).
Arenas only got 28 minutes (felt like half that to me), but he wasn't all that bad despite the underwhelming numbers. Didn't make any real mistakes on offense, put up 5 assists and 3 boards, and hit his free throws at 7-8, including some late when it counted. With how well Hughes and Jamison were scoring, we didn't really miss his point all that much.
The play of Hughes and Jamison doesn't really need an explanation. Both were excellent. Jamison seemed to take better shots than usual, or more specifically, less not so good shots. Hughes looked like he made a real effort on the two things he's faulted for, bad shots and wild breaks. I don't think there was a single break that he could've passed on that he didn't, and I can't recall a single shot he took that had me shaking my head afterwards. He did kind of vanish from late in the second to halfway into the fourth, but he was huge when we needed him the most.
Another solid game for JJ as well. He only got about 10-11 minutes of burn in the second half after getting 21-22 in the first for whatever reason, but he looked very good out there for the second straight game. Active on defense, not going overboard on offense, brining the ball up against pressure, and just doing all the little things we want him to do.
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