| 1st half of Milwaukee game
Finally, extensive burn for Maxiell and Acker. First impressions, no way Acker will not make the squad,and no way Maxiell will not make the regular rotation. Now, the unit out there for much of the 2nd quarter was Acker, Dupree, Evans, Maxiell, and Darko. Acker brought the ball up well enough, but there was no other ball handler out there besides Darko to help him out. Indeed, the best I saw the ball brought up was actually the one time by Darko, who still looks like a guard handling that ball on the open floor. Acker had a triple and an impressive block. Besides that, the obvious that nobody shot over him. Good solid D. Still not enough data about how well he can stop penetration as there have not been really much in attempts by an opposing guard to isolate and drive him.
Maxiell can flat out rebound. He boxes out well and uses those long arms, 7-4 wingspan, to practically suck that ball in flat footed sometimes. And he can go up for them too. Excellent impression of Ben in this regard. Absolutely you can see the possibility that Maxiell could get lots of burn at power forward (limiting Darko's and Dyess' minutes, and even cutting down on Sheed's and Ben's minutes.) But I still want to see him at small forward. I don't see any lack of speed with this guy despite all the size. I believe he hit one jumper of several taken.
Darko had an offensive rebound tip in, and otherwise is just simple a good defensive center. Just tough to shoot over. Not a lot otherwise. He attempted an outside shot and missed badly. On another, he was sure it was going in but it just did not quite. Hey, at least he is getting the reps in a game. Give that shot some time.
I have yet to see Maxiell really use that step back jumper I saw in preseason. Just lacking confidence I suppose. First time out really. Can't expect it all, but I like what I have seen just with the defense and rebounding.
Mo Evans is hitting his shots, going up for bounds, and blocking shots. Still no ball handling seen from him but man does he have some skills. Dupree is doing fine out there too, but again, no ball handling although he did manage to get one good pass in there for Evans. Between Evans and Dupree, Evans is impressing quite a bit more, but just maybe there is room for both. Hunter could still retire.
Prince hit some triples tonight, nice to see. Rip is hitting his midrangers and CB is hitting some shots. Nothing all that new with the starters. No Arroyo, Delfino, Dyess, Davis, Glyniadakis or Amir Johnson so far. Game back on.--PS Microwave, I really appreciate you doing a game report. Thanks. Keep it up.</B></B></B> |