You'll probably be seeing more of these than you'd like, which means I'll probably be writing more of these than I like, but frankly, I'm not going to get to every game, and I don't actually have television, which means I won't catch any of the nationally televised games either (blacked out on League Pass). I'm already kind of flailing to catchup with everything, so if you didn't get your news fix, Tony Parker signed an extension. Yay. Okay, so what this boils down to is what I can read from the box score.
Saturday I was a little busy so I didn't watch the game, but I was needless to say, disappointed that the Spurs lost to what seems to be an aimless Hornets organization. Of course with that in mind, I noticed that the Hornets are now 3-0 in the regular season... hrm... Well anyways... here are my notes:
- The fact that both Timmeh and Tony played under 30 minutes leads me to believe that Pop ceded this game fairly early on
- Paul only had 5 assists... I don't know what to make of that.
- Paul, West, Thornton, and Green all scored in double digits, going a combined 4-6 from beyond the arc. I'm led to believe that we were killed on mid-range jumpers.
- DeJuan Blair was only 2-10 and blocked 3 times, methinks he's forcing things a little offensively, especially considering he didn't shoot a single free throw. Though 11 rebounds is nice.
- Team only shot an overall 38.8%... yeesh. Are we settling or forcing? Either way, not good. Maybe shots just weren't falling?
- Manu had 23 points but had to take 19 shots with 42% shooting to get it.
- Only TP (50%), RJ (63.6%), and Gary Neal (50%) shot anything resembling a respectable FG%.
- The bigs (McDyess, Duncan, Blair) went a combined 7-28. I know Okafor is decent defensively... but David West and Jason Smith?
I think this is a degree of inconsistency with the role players we have to get used to. I'm glad that Jefferson is showing great efficiency in the first couple of games of the season and I hope that continues, because that will be a great benefit, but with Timmeh seeing reduced minutes and decreased production thereby, we're going to need other players (namely Hill and Blair) to step it up. Hopefully having Splitter back soon will help.
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