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Originally Posted by Warthog  that's what i meant. these are game threads, so why not acknowledge when a player has an off-night in those threads? i'm not talking overall. look, i love afflalo's defense and he's played great against some awesome players, without knowing their tendencies or anything. but green lit him up in the 1st quarter, and i was the 1st (and only) person to say something about it. |
Warthog, not that your powers of observation are generally all that bad, but in this case, you are very mistaken.
Green only scored twice in the first quarter while Afflalo was in the game. Perhaps you failed to notice that Afflalo was taken out of the game five minutes in? One of those scores was Greene using a pick well and getting a quick shot off. Very hard to defend that. Greene was also hounded into a turn. And he had one layup. That is hardly lighting someone up.
You want to be fair, tell me how many times in this game Afflalo was burnt, then tell me how many times Dixon was burnt. This is a very fair comparison since they were both playing shooting guard minutes.
Now tell me how many times Afflalo let his man get inside, causing a guy to be open on the other team. Dixon? Now tell me how many times Afflalo let his guy get past him, and it resulted in one of our bigs having to foul. Dixon? I know the answers, do you?