College Wolf wrote:
You can start at the beginning of the game. Love played the full first qtr, got it handed to him by Fried Nugget and the Wolves were down by 8 points at the qtr break. The Wolves are one of the best first qtr teams in the League. Love still has his legs in the first (since apparently he couldn't keep them in shape with a couple of broken knuckles.) And if you watch that qtr again, Love's D was not helping stop the Nuggets much at all. A bunch of the buckets were because of his D.

So...beyond that crappy start by Love, he ended up sitting for significant chunks in the second half. The group playing was doing well and building a nice lead that carried them through. His shooting sucked. 3 for 17?! And he also picked up 5 fouls. McGee and Koufos also had 5, so it was the was the way it was being called.

So basically, the shooting, the D, the fouls and a general suckiness lead to Adelman recognizing we were playing better without Love. I give him credit for sitting him. Adelman likes the kinds of team ball that Shved-AK and JJ-AK were coming up with last night. Love doesn't seem to be involved in that type of play much right now.

I have some more thoughts on Love right now, but I will post them in our Love on Love thread.

The best thing that Love did last night was that he was not a whining cry baby...of course, he also didn't whine himself to 18 free throws like the last game.

Speaking of FTs. They shot 81% last night. Great job, guys! Think we would have held on if that percent was under 80%? Not likely. They mentioned during the game last night that we have won every game this year when we have shot 80+% at the line. And we also know that it cost us games, like the one with Charlotte for example.

Roundhouse - great challenge! Howl to you. Here is how the final scoreboard turned out with points scored in parenthesis following the jersey number:


Worth 2 TP - Pekovic #14(22), Ridnour #13(15), Derrick Williams #7(6), JJ Barea #11(17), Corey Brewer #13(14), Jordan Hamilton #1(4)

Worth 3 TP - Josh Howard #5(DNP), Malcolm Lee #8(0), Gallinari #8(24), Igoudala #9(2)

Worth 4 TP - Love #42(8), Shved #1(8), Ty Lawson #3(17), Javale McGee #34(9), Andre Miller #24(3)

Worth 10 TP - Kirilenko #47(18), CunningHAM #33(12), Stiemsma #34(2), Lou Amundson #17(DNP), Kenneth Faried #35(26), Koufos the Doofus #41(6)

College Wolf wrote:
Not like "benched" benched. He got his 5th foul midway through the 4th; so foul trouble.

Tod Murphy wrote:
Ha. Fried Nugget kinda/sorta almost pulled it off.

Fried 'get is awesome like half the time. Okay, maybe 85% of the time. Sometimes he is hitting shots and dunking and being awesome, other times he looks like Lou Amundson/Mark Madsen trying to shoot in the post, airballing layups and stuff.. Remember Madsen airballing layups consistently?

But then he tossed this down once:


Mark Madsen is a better ballhandler than Wes Johnson. You can't make that up.

Tod Murphy wrote:
I don't think anyone picked D-Will or Brewer. We all went for the higher value players.

Not even members of the Turbo fanclub like The Daddy or Flash picked him. Shame on them

EDIT: I stand corrected. Both Murphs and The Daddy picked Brewer. Good job guys! I'm giving you each a bonus TP.

The Manimal shat all over Love in this game. He had 14 points in the 1st quarter alone when Love was guarding him Love's defense is truly pathetic. And then he shoots 3-17 from the field too! Jesus man, you sure are proving to us how you deserved that supermax contract. smh *hops in time machine and goes back to last year to trade Love for Harden and Ibaka*

At least Pek was a beast, and 8-8 from the free throw line!

AK47, Ridnour, JJB, and CunningHAM all with solid games as well.

Corey Brewer has turned into a nice player. I always believed. Look at his game logs, he's scored 14 or more points in the last 6 games while shooting like 60+% from the field.

WallyWorld wrote:
bonus prediction fail

roundhouse wrote:
totally!

Tod Murphy wrote:
Awesome, thanks dude. Howl!

roundhouse wrote:
WW should get minus infinity Timberpups.