Putting together a new Grading Consortium gang for the regular season and this might be the last solo grades for a bit so woohoo and all that for what turned out to actually be a pretty tasty preseason game, with a lot of stuff going on, people trending, things to look for come Wednesday night etc. Boogie captained the starters, IT captained the reserves. After an abysmal first quarter showing our starting backcourt guys woke up in different ways and looked like actual applicants for the job. It was a pretty fun game for a scrimmage that doesn't appear on anybody's record.
And in honor of the upcoming home opener being telecast across India, a video of what that might sound like:
Boxscore
Stats: 34min 12pts (3-9, 1-4, 5-6) 4reb 5ast 2stl 0blk 1TO
Salmons ( C+ ) -- the starting unit came out flat again, and John was part of the first quarter fugly while looking as tired and passive as he can look. He was barely moving on the glass, he airballed a three, he looked bad. But like Marcus Thornton an interesting thing happened here. IT came into the game, and IT right now is basically just playing the game his way, damn the system. And IT's way is to play Keith Smart ball. And so he accelerated the game, we started smallballing, and while IT was clearly the dominant beneficiary of that play style, both John (as well as MT) seemed to benefit as well. When John reentered the game he notched back to back assists, he picked up a steal. He was just support personnel, but there was a little life there and he suddenly was actually supporting. The drab play still had him replaced in the starting lineup after half by Travis Outlaw however, and it wasn't until the 4th quarter, again with IT at the helm, that he put together the bulk of his statline and grade here. Even hit a couple of jumpers in the late 4th to help secure the victory. Its a solidish looking statline that was less so until very late in this one, and very few of the positive numbers came with him alongside Cousins and Vasquez and the starters. Whether that was just a slow start, or whether he just fit better in the pseudo Smart bench smallball I don't know.
Stats: 19min 9pts (3-5, 1-2, 2-2) 3reb 1ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
Patterson ( B- ) -- in a bit of a reverse of his last time out, PPat came out with a flat starting unit and barely even had a first half stint, quickly picking up 3 fouls just out in nowhere space for a power player, on long boards, CP3 flops etc. He was out of the game within 6 minutes with a single rebound and no points and did not return until after half. It took a while for anything to happen offensively in the third quarter as well, but while we were waiting a new spirit was evident as he picked up the physicality against Blake, who was being used oddly (is the former dunk king being turned into LaMarcus Aldridge/old KG?) and who could get nothing going against PPat. Finally got a shot to fall on a terrible running falling away hook that nobody but Cousins should have a right to even take (and not even Cousins truth be told), but came to offensive life down the stretch of the third as we began to blow them out, notching 9 points in the final 4 or 5 minutes, hitting a three, etc.. Tale of two halves for PPat as it was with our starters in general. Always makes graded an adventure.
Stats: 19min 20pts (9-16, 0-0, 2-2) 7reb 1ast 1stl 0blk 3TO
Cousins ( A- ) -- 20pts 7reb in 19min and a minus to your A? Yep, in this case. There is this mythological beast you hear talked about sometimes by Clippers announcers. Apparently something that looks a bit like DeAndre Jordan, except its a superstar basketball player. At the beginning of the game the Clippers announcers were amusingly even trying to group him in with Cousins as a top young center. But the minus to this A for Boogie comes because during the first 6 minutes of this game we actually got a chance to see this Loch Ness monster version of DeAndre Jordan. And hey, Boogie was not bad. In fact he was all we had again in there. But this wa a flashback to 90s era big center battles, and if Cousins looked pretty good scoring 8pts and grabbing 3rbs in the first 6 minutes, DeAndre Jordan looked flat GREAT in dunking 4 times on his head, blocking three of Boogie's shots, and grabbing 6 rebs back the other way. I'm pretty sure the first Jordan dunk was just because of an old passive John Salmons standing there flatfooted rather than blocking DeAndre off the glass. But the last three were him just jumping right over Boogie in very impressive fashion. You could see it damaged Cousins' calm, and some cheap little fouls picked up doing nothing he had to (and making the mistake of breathing on Chris Paul, who needs a good beatdown) weren't helping matters. But it was a competitive response, he threw down a huge dunk the other way to send a message, and angrily slapped a ball away from Jordan in the post. And just as things were getting interesting, the refs, who also needed a beatdown, deprived us of most of our fun as both guys ended up on the bench until halftime with fouls (Boogie picked up his 3rd when he got isolated on Paul at the 3pt line on a switch and not a single King came to bail him out of the impossible matchup -- your franchise center gets isolated like that with 2 fouls, you come out and get him, and I don't care who you are leaving open in the process). Boogie would not return until the third, but it was an impressive return. Jordan was still there, but it was not quite the same mythological beast that had been there in the first half, and this time Cousins began hammering away at he and Blake, who he overpowered inside, and the thing that again has been there so often in preseason has been the control. A couple of experimental jumpers did not work, in fact Jordan even blocked one of them that Boogie had to throw up against the shot clock, so he responded with power drives into the deep post, and then power moves for the finishes. And so what you had here was a dominant 20pts 7reb in 19min, that's a 40pts 14reb type pace for a full game. And yet a minus because he might have been the second best center in this game for a good stretch of his minutes. Good 90s style battle royale in there.
Stats: 35min 17pts (7-13, 1-4, 2-2) 6reb 1ast 1stl 0blk 2TO
Thornton ( B ) -- might have had the most interesting game of the night for us. Marcus came out in the first quarter and was giving us exactly the same crap effort he has all preseason. He was dead and passive out there , and carefully dribbling the ball a few times up top to make the correct handoff etc. It was like doing a parody of a guy thinking his way through an offense rather than playing it. He gave us nothing in the early minutes as we lacked energy and dynamism amongst the starters again. But then after very appropriately heading to the bench, he got a second chance, coming in for the final play of the quarter to hit a good shot along the baseline, and getting to run the second quarter next to IT, who was turning the thing back into a Smart era trackmeet. And suddenly back in his beloved run and chuck environment, MT suddenly sprang to life as, well, himself. Back was the energetic, selfish but prolific chucker of shots, he wasn't hesitating any longer, and he was motoring up and down the court helping to juice our running game. And things got more interesting after half, as he didn't go back to sleep with the starters, but instead carried over the confidence and play into the third quarter. It stood out more as the rest of the guys tried to play real basketball and MT was still forcing up terrible 1 on 1 shots and whatnot, but the energy and involvement was there, he was out on the break, he was a weapon. I won't go so far as to say reliable, but he was awake and making a contribution as the starters finally clicked as a group and blew the Clippers out. More smallball run with IT padded things out for the evening, but the interesting stories to this one were that a) MT finally showed up for us and made an argument to start. And b) what it took to make him show up and make that argument.
Stats: 22min 0pts (0-5, 0-2, 0-0) 3reb 12ast 2stl 0blk 0TO
Vasquez ( B- ) -- more tale of two halves stuff. I don't know if there actually has been any true battle with IT over this starting position, but Grevis came out in the first half to this one sucking just as bad as he sucked last time. And one of the disturbing little preseason revelations has been just how worthless Grevis is if he's off. He was just dazzlingly ineffective, and not just with his own offense, which isn't what he is out there for anyway. Meanwhile Chris Paul was Chris Pauling us and you were looking around wishing Beno would show back up. Say what you will about IT's complete lack of discipline, when he came in the difference in oomph was again palatable. But the 2nd half here was mercifully another story, and indeed a perfect 2nd half for us to close the preseason on. For the first time maybe all preseason the starters fully worked, and a big part of that was Grevis pulling his head out. His energy was way up, he started getting his hands on balls on defense, and his ability to keep his head up and hit guys with long passes really triggered our break. he still appeared, and is, slow footed. But he's a human skip pass. The end result was that in the third quarter our starters finally hummed, and Grevis was a major part of why. And there's a bit of a whew! there as we head into the opener.
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Bench
Stats: 27min 9pts (3-7, 0-0, 3-10) 8reb 1ast 0stl 1blk 0TO
Thompson ( C+ ) -- first sub in the game with PPat in instant first quarter foul trouble, and with one notable exception that became the story of his game, very much played a Jason Thompson game out there. There was solid boardwork. There was the one little professional post move in the early second that always hints at more. The back to back long jumpers in the early 4th. And oh yes, there were FT struggles. Oh my level FT struggles. Despite coming in as part of the PF platoon, actually spent the bulk of his game as smallball center/designated dirty work big guy who doesn't get to have any fun while all the little rodents scurry hither and yon throwing their hunks of cheese at the rim from all angles. And if it weren't for the miserable FT woes which we will hopefully just chalk up to one of those nights, the overall work was very Jason Thompson solid. Never making a particular impact, but being that same fairly productive spacefilling big we've had here for years. If he hits his FTs this is 12 or 13 and 8, slightly above his career numbers. He doesn't, so the grade reflects that. but everything else was per normal.
Stats: 14min 0pts (0-1, 0-0, 0-0) 6reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 1TO
Hayes ( C ) -- got into the game early after both PPat and Cuz were quickly gone with fouls, and he managed to keep Jordan far enough from the hoop that he couldn't dunk it, something that was a novel concept for us to that point in the game. Taken out as we went smallball against the Clips reserves, and really had little impact the rest of the game as once you get past the Clips starters there really isn't anybody for somebody like Chuck to push and shove against. Got a three drained in his face in the 4th by that big weenie Mullens, but if a 7 footer wants to stand 25 from the hoop and throw up 3s at a 30% clip, I say let him. This grade reflects more a lack of anything really being accomplished after the first couple of minutes rather than Chuck actually doing anything particularly wrong.
Stats: 27min 27pts (8-15, 2-6, 9-10) 4reb 4ast 2stl 0blk 4TO
Thomas ( A ) -- at the end of the 2nd quarter this was actually likely an A+, as we had not one, but two point a minute players tonight. And while I doubt IT knows or accepts this, he has been making a decisive argument for himself as 6th man/main bench gun to take over the scoring once Cousins leaves. Actually came in the game as a SG next to Vasquez for a few minutes, and that really is pretty apt the way things are going. Just instantly began his little man assault on a Clippers reserve group missing Darren Collison, and they had nobody to guard him. Got more out of control once he switched over to putative PG, but he accelerated the game into something that really was pretty indistinguishable from Keith Smart's offense last year and Malone aided the process by subbing in a smallball lineup that seemed to thrive in the open court pace (a consequence I might add of the current regime not swapping out the old regime's personnel). Things got tougher once Chris Paul was subbed back into the game, but IT was still blowing up and down the court, and hit some real tough finishes off the glass as he was just having one of those hot quarters where it all falls. Even broke up a 2 on 1 fast break when Reddick and Paul went for one too many passes rather than just finishing over the 5'9" guy. Lost his plus upon his return in the 4th. Was still the dominant force out there in his minutes, but he started getting sloppy with the ball and had a swath of unnecessary and careless turnovers, once seeming to pass the ball directly into the chest of a nearby Clipper. Anyway, big game. Now somebody just has to convince him that he's not been shooting his way into the starting lineup, but rather into a 6th man role.
Stats: 22min 8pts (3-9, 1-6, 1-2) 6reb 3ast 1stl 0blk 0TO
McLemore ( C- ) -- nope, not this time out. Dropped the ball in the open court stalling a breakout, and actually ended up playing a lot of smallball SF in the 2nd alongside IT and MT. Obviously with those two out there together the Effervescent Kumquat was going to be an afterthought. Did get one of his little pullups to fall in the midquarter, but got the wide open look from three to beat the halftime buzzer and just bricked it. When he got back into the game at the end of the third it was to immediately be matched against Jamal Crawford, who lit him up bigtime last time they faced each other. And Jamal immediately let him know that nothing had changed and drained a long jumper in his face. I liked that Ben came back the other way and drained a three right back at Crawford, but it would be his only hit from distance during the game. Meanwhile Crawford kept on coming at him and coming at him, and appears to be his own personal early career welcome to the league nightmare. Despite multiple open looks during the 4th, the Kumquat went splat and couldn't knock down even the open ones. There were some decent other contributions, but less a sense this time of even the misses being ok. This time they hurt as the Clipeprs kind fo wobbled their way back within shouting distance late.
Stats: 19min 8pts (1-4, 1-3, 5-5) 2reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
Outlaw ( C ) -- hit a three in the early 2nd for his only make of the night, and spent some time back at smallball PF as we Smarted it up. Didn't do much on the boards in those minutes, but still got the second half start at SF after Salmons had started the game snoozing with the starters. Got fouled on a three point shot for really his only memorable play of the night, but was part of a superior defensive effort and throughout the preseason has appeared to be remembering how to be a capable system defender. Not a stopper, and gets physically overwhelmed when switched onto guys with bodies that look they actually went through puberty, but an effective long space eating help defense contributor.
Stats: 1min 0pts (0-0, 0-0, 0-0) 0reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
McCallum ( INC ) -- just in for the final play of the first half to try to slow CP3
Stats: 2min 0pts (0-0, 0-0, 0-0) 1reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
Ndiaye ( INC ) -- just in for the closing 1+ minute and despite our best efforts, we could not get him a goodbye hoop. had a chance for a dunk under the hoop, but got stripped. Then fumbled a pass from IT trying to get it right back to him.
And in honor of the upcoming home opener being telecast across India, a video of what that might sound like:
Boxscore
Stats: 34min 12pts (3-9, 1-4, 5-6) 4reb 5ast 2stl 0blk 1TO
Salmons ( C+ ) -- the starting unit came out flat again, and John was part of the first quarter fugly while looking as tired and passive as he can look. He was barely moving on the glass, he airballed a three, he looked bad. But like Marcus Thornton an interesting thing happened here. IT came into the game, and IT right now is basically just playing the game his way, damn the system. And IT's way is to play Keith Smart ball. And so he accelerated the game, we started smallballing, and while IT was clearly the dominant beneficiary of that play style, both John (as well as MT) seemed to benefit as well. When John reentered the game he notched back to back assists, he picked up a steal. He was just support personnel, but there was a little life there and he suddenly was actually supporting. The drab play still had him replaced in the starting lineup after half by Travis Outlaw however, and it wasn't until the 4th quarter, again with IT at the helm, that he put together the bulk of his statline and grade here. Even hit a couple of jumpers in the late 4th to help secure the victory. Its a solidish looking statline that was less so until very late in this one, and very few of the positive numbers came with him alongside Cousins and Vasquez and the starters. Whether that was just a slow start, or whether he just fit better in the pseudo Smart bench smallball I don't know.
Stats: 19min 9pts (3-5, 1-2, 2-2) 3reb 1ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
Patterson ( B- ) -- in a bit of a reverse of his last time out, PPat came out with a flat starting unit and barely even had a first half stint, quickly picking up 3 fouls just out in nowhere space for a power player, on long boards, CP3 flops etc. He was out of the game within 6 minutes with a single rebound and no points and did not return until after half. It took a while for anything to happen offensively in the third quarter as well, but while we were waiting a new spirit was evident as he picked up the physicality against Blake, who was being used oddly (is the former dunk king being turned into LaMarcus Aldridge/old KG?) and who could get nothing going against PPat. Finally got a shot to fall on a terrible running falling away hook that nobody but Cousins should have a right to even take (and not even Cousins truth be told), but came to offensive life down the stretch of the third as we began to blow them out, notching 9 points in the final 4 or 5 minutes, hitting a three, etc.. Tale of two halves for PPat as it was with our starters in general. Always makes graded an adventure.
Stats: 19min 20pts (9-16, 0-0, 2-2) 7reb 1ast 1stl 0blk 3TO
Cousins ( A- ) -- 20pts 7reb in 19min and a minus to your A? Yep, in this case. There is this mythological beast you hear talked about sometimes by Clippers announcers. Apparently something that looks a bit like DeAndre Jordan, except its a superstar basketball player. At the beginning of the game the Clippers announcers were amusingly even trying to group him in with Cousins as a top young center. But the minus to this A for Boogie comes because during the first 6 minutes of this game we actually got a chance to see this Loch Ness monster version of DeAndre Jordan. And hey, Boogie was not bad. In fact he was all we had again in there. But this wa a flashback to 90s era big center battles, and if Cousins looked pretty good scoring 8pts and grabbing 3rbs in the first 6 minutes, DeAndre Jordan looked flat GREAT in dunking 4 times on his head, blocking three of Boogie's shots, and grabbing 6 rebs back the other way. I'm pretty sure the first Jordan dunk was just because of an old passive John Salmons standing there flatfooted rather than blocking DeAndre off the glass. But the last three were him just jumping right over Boogie in very impressive fashion. You could see it damaged Cousins' calm, and some cheap little fouls picked up doing nothing he had to (and making the mistake of breathing on Chris Paul, who needs a good beatdown) weren't helping matters. But it was a competitive response, he threw down a huge dunk the other way to send a message, and angrily slapped a ball away from Jordan in the post. And just as things were getting interesting, the refs, who also needed a beatdown, deprived us of most of our fun as both guys ended up on the bench until halftime with fouls (Boogie picked up his 3rd when he got isolated on Paul at the 3pt line on a switch and not a single King came to bail him out of the impossible matchup -- your franchise center gets isolated like that with 2 fouls, you come out and get him, and I don't care who you are leaving open in the process). Boogie would not return until the third, but it was an impressive return. Jordan was still there, but it was not quite the same mythological beast that had been there in the first half, and this time Cousins began hammering away at he and Blake, who he overpowered inside, and the thing that again has been there so often in preseason has been the control. A couple of experimental jumpers did not work, in fact Jordan even blocked one of them that Boogie had to throw up against the shot clock, so he responded with power drives into the deep post, and then power moves for the finishes. And so what you had here was a dominant 20pts 7reb in 19min, that's a 40pts 14reb type pace for a full game. And yet a minus because he might have been the second best center in this game for a good stretch of his minutes. Good 90s style battle royale in there.
Stats: 35min 17pts (7-13, 1-4, 2-2) 6reb 1ast 1stl 0blk 2TO
Thornton ( B ) -- might have had the most interesting game of the night for us. Marcus came out in the first quarter and was giving us exactly the same crap effort he has all preseason. He was dead and passive out there , and carefully dribbling the ball a few times up top to make the correct handoff etc. It was like doing a parody of a guy thinking his way through an offense rather than playing it. He gave us nothing in the early minutes as we lacked energy and dynamism amongst the starters again. But then after very appropriately heading to the bench, he got a second chance, coming in for the final play of the quarter to hit a good shot along the baseline, and getting to run the second quarter next to IT, who was turning the thing back into a Smart era trackmeet. And suddenly back in his beloved run and chuck environment, MT suddenly sprang to life as, well, himself. Back was the energetic, selfish but prolific chucker of shots, he wasn't hesitating any longer, and he was motoring up and down the court helping to juice our running game. And things got more interesting after half, as he didn't go back to sleep with the starters, but instead carried over the confidence and play into the third quarter. It stood out more as the rest of the guys tried to play real basketball and MT was still forcing up terrible 1 on 1 shots and whatnot, but the energy and involvement was there, he was out on the break, he was a weapon. I won't go so far as to say reliable, but he was awake and making a contribution as the starters finally clicked as a group and blew the Clippers out. More smallball run with IT padded things out for the evening, but the interesting stories to this one were that a) MT finally showed up for us and made an argument to start. And b) what it took to make him show up and make that argument.
Stats: 22min 0pts (0-5, 0-2, 0-0) 3reb 12ast 2stl 0blk 0TO
Vasquez ( B- ) -- more tale of two halves stuff. I don't know if there actually has been any true battle with IT over this starting position, but Grevis came out in the first half to this one sucking just as bad as he sucked last time. And one of the disturbing little preseason revelations has been just how worthless Grevis is if he's off. He was just dazzlingly ineffective, and not just with his own offense, which isn't what he is out there for anyway. Meanwhile Chris Paul was Chris Pauling us and you were looking around wishing Beno would show back up. Say what you will about IT's complete lack of discipline, when he came in the difference in oomph was again palatable. But the 2nd half here was mercifully another story, and indeed a perfect 2nd half for us to close the preseason on. For the first time maybe all preseason the starters fully worked, and a big part of that was Grevis pulling his head out. His energy was way up, he started getting his hands on balls on defense, and his ability to keep his head up and hit guys with long passes really triggered our break. he still appeared, and is, slow footed. But he's a human skip pass. The end result was that in the third quarter our starters finally hummed, and Grevis was a major part of why. And there's a bit of a whew! there as we head into the opener.
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Bench
Stats: 27min 9pts (3-7, 0-0, 3-10) 8reb 1ast 0stl 1blk 0TO
Thompson ( C+ ) -- first sub in the game with PPat in instant first quarter foul trouble, and with one notable exception that became the story of his game, very much played a Jason Thompson game out there. There was solid boardwork. There was the one little professional post move in the early second that always hints at more. The back to back long jumpers in the early 4th. And oh yes, there were FT struggles. Oh my level FT struggles. Despite coming in as part of the PF platoon, actually spent the bulk of his game as smallball center/designated dirty work big guy who doesn't get to have any fun while all the little rodents scurry hither and yon throwing their hunks of cheese at the rim from all angles. And if it weren't for the miserable FT woes which we will hopefully just chalk up to one of those nights, the overall work was very Jason Thompson solid. Never making a particular impact, but being that same fairly productive spacefilling big we've had here for years. If he hits his FTs this is 12 or 13 and 8, slightly above his career numbers. He doesn't, so the grade reflects that. but everything else was per normal.
Stats: 14min 0pts (0-1, 0-0, 0-0) 6reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 1TO
Hayes ( C ) -- got into the game early after both PPat and Cuz were quickly gone with fouls, and he managed to keep Jordan far enough from the hoop that he couldn't dunk it, something that was a novel concept for us to that point in the game. Taken out as we went smallball against the Clips reserves, and really had little impact the rest of the game as once you get past the Clips starters there really isn't anybody for somebody like Chuck to push and shove against. Got a three drained in his face in the 4th by that big weenie Mullens, but if a 7 footer wants to stand 25 from the hoop and throw up 3s at a 30% clip, I say let him. This grade reflects more a lack of anything really being accomplished after the first couple of minutes rather than Chuck actually doing anything particularly wrong.
Stats: 27min 27pts (8-15, 2-6, 9-10) 4reb 4ast 2stl 0blk 4TO
Thomas ( A ) -- at the end of the 2nd quarter this was actually likely an A+, as we had not one, but two point a minute players tonight. And while I doubt IT knows or accepts this, he has been making a decisive argument for himself as 6th man/main bench gun to take over the scoring once Cousins leaves. Actually came in the game as a SG next to Vasquez for a few minutes, and that really is pretty apt the way things are going. Just instantly began his little man assault on a Clippers reserve group missing Darren Collison, and they had nobody to guard him. Got more out of control once he switched over to putative PG, but he accelerated the game into something that really was pretty indistinguishable from Keith Smart's offense last year and Malone aided the process by subbing in a smallball lineup that seemed to thrive in the open court pace (a consequence I might add of the current regime not swapping out the old regime's personnel). Things got tougher once Chris Paul was subbed back into the game, but IT was still blowing up and down the court, and hit some real tough finishes off the glass as he was just having one of those hot quarters where it all falls. Even broke up a 2 on 1 fast break when Reddick and Paul went for one too many passes rather than just finishing over the 5'9" guy. Lost his plus upon his return in the 4th. Was still the dominant force out there in his minutes, but he started getting sloppy with the ball and had a swath of unnecessary and careless turnovers, once seeming to pass the ball directly into the chest of a nearby Clipper. Anyway, big game. Now somebody just has to convince him that he's not been shooting his way into the starting lineup, but rather into a 6th man role.
Stats: 22min 8pts (3-9, 1-6, 1-2) 6reb 3ast 1stl 0blk 0TO
McLemore ( C- ) -- nope, not this time out. Dropped the ball in the open court stalling a breakout, and actually ended up playing a lot of smallball SF in the 2nd alongside IT and MT. Obviously with those two out there together the Effervescent Kumquat was going to be an afterthought. Did get one of his little pullups to fall in the midquarter, but got the wide open look from three to beat the halftime buzzer and just bricked it. When he got back into the game at the end of the third it was to immediately be matched against Jamal Crawford, who lit him up bigtime last time they faced each other. And Jamal immediately let him know that nothing had changed and drained a long jumper in his face. I liked that Ben came back the other way and drained a three right back at Crawford, but it would be his only hit from distance during the game. Meanwhile Crawford kept on coming at him and coming at him, and appears to be his own personal early career welcome to the league nightmare. Despite multiple open looks during the 4th, the Kumquat went splat and couldn't knock down even the open ones. There were some decent other contributions, but less a sense this time of even the misses being ok. This time they hurt as the Clipeprs kind fo wobbled their way back within shouting distance late.
Stats: 19min 8pts (1-4, 1-3, 5-5) 2reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
Outlaw ( C ) -- hit a three in the early 2nd for his only make of the night, and spent some time back at smallball PF as we Smarted it up. Didn't do much on the boards in those minutes, but still got the second half start at SF after Salmons had started the game snoozing with the starters. Got fouled on a three point shot for really his only memorable play of the night, but was part of a superior defensive effort and throughout the preseason has appeared to be remembering how to be a capable system defender. Not a stopper, and gets physically overwhelmed when switched onto guys with bodies that look they actually went through puberty, but an effective long space eating help defense contributor.
Stats: 1min 0pts (0-0, 0-0, 0-0) 0reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
McCallum ( INC ) -- just in for the final play of the first half to try to slow CP3
Stats: 2min 0pts (0-0, 0-0, 0-0) 1reb 0ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
Ndiaye ( INC ) -- just in for the closing 1+ minute and despite our best efforts, we could not get him a goodbye hoop. had a chance for a dunk under the hoop, but got stripped. Then fumbled a pass from IT trying to get it right back to him.
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