[MJG]

Good defense by Haywood and a nice jumper by Jamison leave us up by 7 with a minute left. New Jersey with the ball. Cut out the gambling and just play tough defense for 62 seconds and we should be able to wrap this thing up.

[adarsh1]

tough d. no running wildly for steals and the win is ours

[adarsh1]

GAME OVER!

[twinz2gether]

One of the only good stats from this game
Gilbert Arenas: 28 mins, 1 TO!

[CP26]

I don't think I have ever heard the words Moving-Screen called so much

[MJG]

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.

[BCH]

Originally posted by adarsh1!
maybe we should put in peter john ramos... atleast he willl make zo come outside

The more PJR plays the worse we are as a team.

I wouldn't be surprised if he only plays in blowout losses for ther est of the year.

[byrondarnell66]

tough call as far as "player of the game" between Hughes and Jamison. Jamison was more consistant the whole game, but Hughes really came through at the end with a big 3, key steals, freethrows. I give the edge to Jamison though

[Shanghai Kid]

Hughes has been pretty damn clutch this season. He definetly shines in the 4th quarter.

The good thing about our offense is that we have enough scoring to win games even when one of our main guys isn't scoring. Out of Arenas/Hughes/Jamison, if two of them are having a great game than we usually have a shot at winning.

[MJG]

Jamison edged out Hughes for me. Jamison was doing his thing pretty much throughout the game, while as I mentioned Hughes didn't seem to do anything (good or bad) for some twenty minutes in the middle of the game. My little rule is that it is player of the game, not player of the fourth quarter (although Hughes was pretty solid in the first 15 minutes or so as well).

Without Hughes' second half of the fourth I admit we might not win the the thing, but without Jamison in the the first 3.5, Hughes probably never even gets the opportunity to lead us to victory. Both had their hand deep in the victory though, no doubt about it.