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Old 12-10-2009, 02:09 AM   #97
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
I played New Jersey last year, they beat me by 15. There are some key differences now. Mainly, the big trade they made to try to win now, getting Yao Ming but giving up Brook Lopez.

Mar 16, 2011

Charlotte(32-33) at New Jersey(35-31)


CHA:NJN
77:80 OVR
74:85 OFF
78:81 DEF

New Jersey Scouting

PG Devin Harris - 88 OVR - 20.1 ppg/7.0 apg - A+ hands/B- inside/B+ outside, A- defense, great athlete, smart on the court. No real weakness.

SG Larry Hughes - 74 OVR - 10.0 ppg - B hands/B+ outside/B+ perimeter D. He was with the knicks last year. His shooting is down noticibly this year, from 45% down to 40% from the field and down about 5% from 3 as well.

SF Terrence Williams - 74 OVR - 12.5 ppg/7.0 rpg - B- hands/B+ perimeter D,not a bigtime scorer, D+ inside/C+ outside. An 'A' athlete though, that's kinda how Gerald Wallace looks, not a great shooter from any spot, but a great athlete who can find a lot of ways to score.

PF Jianlian Yi - 61 OVR - 1.3 ppg/1.7 rpg - Travis Outlaw is hurt, thrusting Yi into a role he isn't ableto handle. This does give them two 7 footers though...

C Yao Ming - 82 OVR - 14.9 ppg/9.0 rpg - A inside/B+ post D/B+ rebounding. Smart but a poor athlete. Yao is 30 and a bit tired. Oh yeah, and he's 7'6". Yao is playing 30 minutes per game and pissed off about it. He's normally rated 86 OVR but so unhappy about his PT that he's performing worse.

Backup SG Courtney Lee averages 5 points off the bench(72 OVR), backup PG Kyle Lowry picks up about 6.5(71 OVR).


First Quarter

Yao really isn't an athlete. We score the first 9 of the game and get 2 quick fouls on Yao. Most amusingly, Yi gets stuck on the perimeter on Gerald Wallace. Wallace throws a fake, drives right by Yi like he's not even there, dunks over Yao and gets a 3 point play. Sadly, New Jersey starts to score. We keep the lead though and its a high scoring quarter, espicially for us.

Charlotte 32
New Jersey 27

Padgett has a HUGE quarter cutting to the basket past these slow, unathletic oafs they have in the post. Padgett 16 points, Wallace 7. Devin Harris with 9 for New Jersey.


Second Quarter

Charlotte 53
New Jersey 53

There are just too many minutes where our lineup is Stephen Graham, Raja Bell, Gerald Henderson, Boris Diaw, and Nazr Mohammad, or something with about that much scoring potential. Padgett still has 16, Wallace still has 7, because they played the entire first quarter and sat most of the second. Augustin 6, Bell 6. Ray Allen is really not getting enough looks. Devin Harris has 17 and has been a good consistent scorer. Hughes 8, Yao with 6 points/5 boards.


Third Quarter

New Jersey 93
Charlotte 81

Yep, there's the 40 point quarter for the Nets. UGH. I seem to give those up a bit too often playing out games. Ray Allen is just OFF. He's only 4-9, 1-4 from 3, but I've only taken wide open no one anywhere close to him 3's, I need him to hit 2 or 3 of those. Padgett has 24, Wallace 13, Allen 10. Harris only scored 6 that quarter, but everyone was able to get open shots and hit them this quarter. Terrance Williams drives by our guys a few times, a lot of drive+dish type wide open shots here.


Fourth Quarter

8:30 to go. so Yao is 7'6". Most of our guys aren't. Its 105-86, we're done.

Yeah, Ray Allen decides to get hot in the final 3 minute of the 4th. Where was that in the first 40 minutes bud.

New Jersey 127
Charlotte 109


Padgett: 26 points/5 boards/5 assists/2 blocks
Allen: 18 points
Wallace: 15 points
Bell: 14 points
Augustin: 12 points


Devin Harris has 25 points/14 assists/5 steals. The steals... DJ Augustin handles the ball well but he has awful ball security, and it *really* shows. Very, very turnover prone. Backup PG Chad O'Connor was hot and scored 21 points in 20 minutes. Hughes 16, Yao 16 and 11 boards in just 20 minutes thanks to foul trouble.

The dead spots in the half court offense with Felton hurt, going so deep on our bench are just so painful.
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