12-16-2005, 11:07 PM
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The starters extended the lead a bit in the 3rd. Mostly Sheed heating it up, living up to his expectations set in Chicago. Again, Sheed in the post was simply unstoppable by any Chicago player.
The bench came in early in the 3rd. Delfino again in before Evans. And again, we took off and put it away. Delfino immediately got inside and kicked out to CB for a triple. Basically, this is flat out more logical. Bring in your good ball handlers first. Note, Evans scored a lot. In garbage time. Good to see him work on his midrange shot. His adventures in ball handling looked real bad though. He did have a good assist though off simply being in the post and passing it up top, and he did get to the right spot on that fast break for a short jumper. The best thing Evans did was hustle after that turn and force them to foul him. That was one very good athletic play to be able to pick that ball up and accelerate down the court so well. And he got some rebounds.
OK. I hope you guys saw that. Maxiell's hard stepback. I saw that thing go in repeatedly in the summer league. It was no fluke that shot went in. That is a plain flat out nasty stepback. Stepping back full force so no way the defender can follow you, and shooting with a good solid jump.
It worked out real well. The starters ended up playing very little. Lots of gas for tomorro night.
Now Darko. A slow start. But in the end, we pretty much held even with all of our subs out there against some rather experienced Chicago players. Darko's long shot just barely rimmed out. He got a couple of offensive rebounds but a travel spoiled one. His defensive rebounding was suspect. I still say that is more a matter of getting game timing. He needs to play for that to happen. Darko showed more ball handling ability vs. a guy like Evans in the very short time he got tonight comparitively. Darko on one play dribbled in toward the basket and hit Evans cutting to the basket. If only Evans could do something like that he would be a good rotation player.
Maxiell got a great block on Chandler that the refs called a foul. Not a foul and the replay shows Maxiell got all ball.
I kind of see a pattern with Tay trying to work on his range. Most nights, Tay is not solid out there long range. But he hits a good bunch of shorter shots. Keep working Tay. Thats one thing playing under Brown did to Tay negatively. I think Tay is still thinking Brown is watching and worrying if he might miss the shot.-Had to put a dig in against Brown on a night when another cellar dweller beat on his team bad.
Tay had another spectacular dunk, off a pass from Rip on a fast break. Pretty ordinary by Tay's standards, but I bet it thrilled a lot of people at the Palace. GO PISTONS!!!!! |