what a great game. we looked terrible in the 1st half but just demoralized them in the 3rd quarter. even better, stuckey got quality minutes against NJ's starters (and some of our own), and looked good. some rookie mistakes...but his drives to the hoop...wow. even the one he missed was impressive. he even got a well-timed block, and on one drive to the basket he drew 4 defenders and smartly dished off to Brezec for an easy layup.

then maxiell? goodness. it's too bad that dunk on sean williams wasn't clean because on the replay he cocked his arm so far back it was ridiculous. i love that he went straight at williams and dared him to block it. what an animal.

the other thing i like about stuckey is that he gets rid of the ball quickly on offense. unlike hunter, he gets the ball up the court and makes an early initial pass to get some movement. goodbye flip murray.

with the ability of jmax/sheed/dice to share the load up front, stuckey really becomes key, and his development is far more important to us winning a 'ship this year than amir johnson's. what i mean by that is, we can get by with our 3 big men up front, but we can't get by with just flip/lindsey backing up chauncey.