Since there isn't always gamedays, I thought I'd make this thread so we have a place we can talk about the games if there isn't another thread to post in.
Anyone see last nights game? I missed it. First thing to that popped out at me when I looked at the box score is it looks like the combo of Hibbert, West and Hansbrough are still rebounding amazingly well. Only 3 games in but a nice sign so far.
Rough night for George going 0-4. He get locked down, or just have a bad game?
Another nice win on the road tonight. Minny is a solid team so it's a respectable road win for sure. Nice to see Granger come up with a huge game tonight. Theres going to be games where he'll have to carry the offense when others are struggling.
Granger has really impressed me this season. He's not putting up as big numbers as he has in the past, but he's picking his spots very well. He's doing a good job of facilitating a little more than usual while allowing the younger guys to flourish... until they need him to score big like he did last night. He's always struck me as a perfect Pippen to someone else's Jordan. This year's Pacers have sort of a "collective Jordan", and he's adjusted nicely.
"I'm extremely impressed with them," Carlisle said. "It's so great to see Larry (Bird)'s vision be realized because he knew this was going to take some time. He knew he was going to have to be opportunistic with acquiring veteran players to go with (Danny) Granger and some of the young pieces.
"The David West acquisition was brilliant. It was so typical of Larry. He studied it, there was a health issue there but they've got as great a medical staff there as anybody in the league but they analyzed it and realized there wasn't the risk a lot of teams probably thought there was. The reality is, at this point, they're one of a handful of teams that's a legit contender for a title."
According to Jimmy Smith of The Times-Picayune, the Indiana Pacers may actually be the leader to land Kaman and he writes: "A league source said Wednesday night that the Indiana Pacers, one of several other teams reportedly in the mix for Kaman, could, in fact, be the leading candidate for a swap. The Pacers apparently are looking for a backup to Roy Hibbert."
The Pacers currently have $14.27 million in salary cap room and they could absorb Kaman's $14 million cap number without sending a player to the Hornets.
Chris Kaman is dramatically better than Foster at every facet of the game. I'm sure they're about equal at rebounding right now since Foster still works his ass off, but we if we can get Kaman for 20 or so minutes a game and have Foster play scrub minutes at C and PF instead of Amundson, that'd be spectacular. Not many teams in the league would have a better big rotation than Hibbert/Kaman/Foster/West/Hansbrough.
Watching the game against the Jazz right now. Impressed with what I've seen from Gordon Hayward tonight. He's lookin pretty good infront of the hometown crowd. We had a nice 20 point lead in the 3rd but the Jazz got on a run and cut it down to under 10 points. Collison has looked very good and I like what I've seen from Stephenson this game as well.
We can't even make a pass down low to Roy Hibbert. He's posting up in perfect position but were standing out on the wing staring right at him making the pass too easy to deflect. Down 1 now argghhh
I think he was a fan in the Reggie days, bailed when we had losers like Travis Diener and Ike Diogu, and now since we have a respectable team again he's back.
Pacers win 104-99. Frustrating second half. Really struggled on offense towards the end of the 3rd quarter and the beginning of the 4th. Almost let this game get away but a couple big shots at the end saved our ass. A win over Atlanta tomorrow night would be huge and I'm really looking forward to the game against Memphis on Friday as well. No easy games this week.
Should've won tonight in Memphis. Apparently we have no idea how to guard a backdoor cut. Back-to-back losses and now we got Denver at home tomorrow night. I really don't want to go into the Miami game on a three game losing streak.
Third loss in a row last night. Didn't catch the game but it was another close one. Were still sitting nicely at 17-10 but we really need to get back on track. A win on Tuesday against Miami would be huge.
Caught the first half of the Memphis game on the radio and the last half on the tv, and the last half seemed like a completely different ball game with Memphis pretty much controlling the tempo. Defense sucked and we couldn't contain Rudy Gay at all. Back door cuts are lethal to Danny Granger and Paul George.
Missed the Denver game and probably glad that I did. Roy had a bad night by the looks of it. The target on his back only got bigger after getting the All-Star nod, it will be interesting to see how he deals with it this year around because if I remember correctly last year when teams started concentrating on shutting him down he started to struggle and his numbers looked a lot like Saturday night's game.
Don't want to lose 4 in a row, but it's certainly possible with Miami regardless of their schedule. Fortunately, I think after the Miami game the hardest stretch of our schedule is over. Having two days rest and at least one practice (hopefully) should do the team some good.
Lost to Miami by 35 last time but luckily this time Miami is playing their 3rd game in 3 nights and we are coming off of 2 days rest. A win tonight would be huge.
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