joec32033 wrote:SergioNYK wrote:Disappointing loss. We've hit a slump defensively which happens every long season. We're just not playing our 'A' game at the end and teams are killing us from three. We still had two really good shots to tie this game and Hart and Brunson just missed them. Brunson has also hit a bit of a slump for him. Finished with 23 but it was a quiet 23 and got cooked defensively by Sexton a couple of times and missed FT's and turned the ball over too much. But he'll be fine.RJ was awful. I thought he was getting back into a groove but he was just awful last night. Couldn't buy a basket (0/7 from three, 3/16 overall) and was too lethargic in his defensive effort. Randle was a monster once again. Started out hot in the first and I thought he was on his way to a 40 point game. We really missed Rob. I don't think Kessler and the Jazz grabs those 15 offensive rebounds with Rob in there.
I think we'll be fine. Thibs will fix it. It's one of those in season slumps that happens. But it has to start with defense. Have to find a way to get 2 of these next 4 on the road before the Bucks mini series.
The whole team had a **** game and they almost won. You single out RJ (-4 +/-), but of the people who sucked, he actually sucked the least at least according to the numbers. They almost won because their big two played like it and their support staff sucked (except DD).
My opinion for RJ is known, and I don't mean to sound like an apologist, but sometimes it seems people have blinders on when they single his ****ty games out when the entire team (save for Randle and Brunson) played an entire **** game. That isn't a fair way to judge.
You can't rank players by single game plus/minus
