Comments on: Preview: Week 13

By: plonden

plonden — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:44:39 +0000

Watching the Lopez Bros go at early in the game was awesome. They were going at it and giving each other the cold shoulder after they would make a play. Robin seemed to get under Brook’s skin pretty easily.

It would be really interesting if they ever played together in the NBA like they did at Stanford.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:25:29 +0000

There’s no denying Brook has many more moves & shots than Robin, plus he’s usually the #1 option on offense and rebounding.

If all Robin does is dunk the ball on cleanups and Nash lobs, gets 7 or 8 baskets and a few blocks and not miss too many FTs, he’ll be quite useful fantasy-wise.

If he keeps it up I’ll be looking at using him to make a low-ball offer for Hibbert when he’s hopefully entrenched in his Murphy-induced slump over the next week or two.

By: John-o

John-o — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:49:02 +0000

If BroLo had Steve Nash lobbing him passes for easy dunks he’d have like 40 points per game. RoLo basically was shooting the ball from within 1 inch of the rim all night long!

Amare is going to get his STATs clobbered if he leaves Phoenix.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:30:16 +0000

Fascinating battle of the brothers Lopez tonight. So far FRoLo is the clear winner!

In other news, Martell Webster had a stinker. Missed a ton of shots early, was benched until the 3rd quarter, missed one more then sat until the final seconds. Rudy took all his playing time.

Corey Brewer’s continued to look good, and Carlos Delfino’s making a strong bid for the watchlist. Someone has to score points for the Wolves – Jennings misses more than he hits and Bogus can’t do it all.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:18:16 +0000

Ersan out of the starting lineup for the Bucks.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:40:50 +0000

OTOH Barnes is tearing it up – as a point forward. 7 assists vs the Lakers, and 5 already in the first quarter vs Pacers. Perhaps he’s slotting into the Hedo slasher/kickout role? If so that really ups his value.

By: plonden

plonden — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:23:13 +0000

^ That’s really a bummer. Plus, it is only going to get worse when Francisco Garcia returns to the lineup. Cut away!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:19:56 +0000

Greene starting in place of Omri, and the two are now splitting minutes. Time for the old heave ho

By: Redhopeful

Redhopeful — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:46:08 +0000

JT is one of those guys who will be frustrating until he learns to play w/o fouling so much. I fully expect him to have a nice upswing in the near future – he’s due. I like Blair for the reasons given by drew. It does come down to TT, but I’d personally stick with him. Very hard to see RoLo become a consistent producer. IMO, RoLo’s best chance for success would require Stoudemire getting traded away. Until then, I expect an inconsistent mess.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:53:19 +0000

@John, its very hard to tell yet how RoLo will pan out – he’ll have plenty of chances to prove himself but his game is still undeveloped. He has bad hands which hurts his rebound rate, poor touch around the basket and isn’t a great FT shooter. One player I’d definitely look at as a TT replacement is Kris Humphries.

Blair will get more & more playing time towards the end of the season as the Spurs rest Duncan for the playoffs, so to me he’s a keeper. JT I don’t know – his attitude & confidence are really poor right now. Hawes is playing better than JT on offense, Brockman’s starting to shine as a defensive PF, and Greene did really well at PF during the 4th quarter vs the Bobcats.