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Bledsoe seems to be sleepwalking through a lot of the games, starting with he 1st game of preseason.

He was scoring well last night, but defensively he's not what he used to be. And his playmaking, as always, remains an issue.

The Bobster wrote:Bledsoe seems to be sleepwalking through a lot of the games, starting with he 1st game of preseason.

He was scoring well last night, but defensively he's not what he used to be. And his playmaking, as always, remains an issue.

Defensively, he has been unquestionably terrible.

The post seems to be the one place that Booker can actually hold his own on defense.

If Booker is not in a groove, we simply don't have enough offense.

Bender looks totally lost on offense as usual. And he gave up a wide open 3 to Gallo, a big no no.

Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:Bender looks totally lost on offense as usual. And he gave up a wide open 3 to Gallo, a big no no.

He has been lost on offense for sure, but I don't think that 3 was on him. I am going to have to go back and review that possession, but I believe Bender was the secondary help man and no one rotated over to his man. The announcers blamed it on him though.

We have no game plan on offense, and only a few players who seem to know how to play defense. It's just a mess.

These new Nike jerseys come untucked a lot more often than the old ones.

Our guys really have no clue when it becomes a scramble. They just can't figure out how get back to their guys on defense. Always leaving someone WIDE open.

Our offense is terrible. All we do is run guys off of screens to get them the ball in positions where they can't score in the halfcourt. In transition, not much better. We're not an overly athletic team, don't have a PG pushing the pace, and don't have enough true shooters to space and let it fly.

Our defense is worse, we can't guard in the post or the perimeter. We don't box out and lose guys at the 3pt line to give them open 3s.

Josh Jackson might be our 2nd best player and while I really like him, that's not a great sign for this team. What he was getting off in SL and preseason, he's not getting now. He'll be better with another 10-15lbs on him as he fills out and he needs to learn to finish with his left. But even so, he's a #3, not a #2.

Booker really shouldn't be getting beat by Teodosic on the perimeter like that.

LAC shooting 50% from the field and 57% from 3.

ShelC wrote:Our offense is terrible. All we do is run guys off of screens to get them the ball in positions where they can't score in the halfcourt. In transition, not much better. We're not an overly athletic team, don't have a PG pushing the pace, and don't have enough true shooters to space and let it fly.

Our defense is worse, we can't guard in the post or the perimeter. We don't box out, we miss lose guys on the 3pt line.

You are on point with some of this, but you are way off on not boxing out. We have only given up 2 offensive rebounds all game. And the Clippers are a great rebounding team.

n4th4n wrote:Booker really shouldn't be getting beat by Teodosic on the perimeter like that.

Yeah. He is going right around him.

I must've only seen those 2 offensive rebounds because it feels like they've had more.

Booker starting to look frisky out there.

ShelC wrote:I must've only seen those 2 offensive rebounds because it feels like they've had more.

Lol, I understand that 100%. Offense rebounds tend to be so frustrating they really stick in your mind. We haven't done much well in the last year and 3 games, but defensive rebounding is the ONE thing we have actually been good at.

Beverly knows Chandler won't even try to block that.

Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:Booker starting to look frisky out there.

Agreed. He is shooting 4/10, but he has had 2-3 really close misses. Just one of those drops, and he is looking at a good shooting game.

EDC wrote:Beverly knows Chandler won't even try to block that.

We might give up career games to all 29 other starting PGs in the league this year.