Recap: Bucks 110, Cavs 90 (Or, it’s regression. Don’t be mean.)
2011-03-09Overview: Brandon Jennings and Earl Boykins combined for 36 points in a 110-90 rout of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Samardo Samuels led the Cavs with 15 points on 11 shots.
This was horrible, let’s move on bullets:
Wow. Setback game. Ramon and Hickson combined to go 7-22. They are both in a tailspin. And they didn’t make up for it on defense, to say the least. I don’t miss Jamison. He was the player most responsible for the 26-game streak. Watching the Cavs play defense was genuinely painful. But he had skills that Samardo Samuels does not have. This is not surprising, as Jamison is a former All-Star and Samuels is an undrafted rookie. Still, the Cavs could really use a forward who could knock down an open jumper and pretend to care about defense. They’re not impossible to find, but the Cavs don’t have one.
Boobie’s back! Some threes, some nice playmaking. It would be great if he could return to his pre-injury form.
Honestly, I don’t want to spend much more time on this game. The team needs Baron offensively at this point, and there was no backcourt defense either. My apologies for the recap — think of this as an open thread. Onward and upward, hopefully.
well only against the bucks of course
lol maybe if we still had MO WILLIAMS we’d still win
I like the Nupe’s rule. Jamison could hit 30+ points and still get flamed for missing a few defensive assignments when our entire team couldn’t defend an NCAA All Star team. Players will miss some assignments, but Hickson is a liability under the basket and if Varajeo was there to help Jamison when he got beat, it wouldn’t look as bad as it has.
Why is Anthony Parker playing? He’s not going to be on the team next year. They should just buy him out and move on.
I’m probably one of the few people whoe DOES miss Jamison. Yes he is a horrible defensive player, but imho it looked like he tried. He seems generally to slow to close out on his man for a 3/jumper and doesn’t have the quickness or hops to really defend well in the post area either. However even if late or unable to do anything about it, he would put a hand up and actually be ‘on his way’ to the right spot on the floor. Plus he was the only realy offensive weapon we had – took some bad shots,… Read more »
This was a painful game to watch. Sessions went back to his old ways of attacking the basket, with no idea of what to do once in the paint. Hickson was completely lost and nobody had a clue on how to stop the pick and roll.
On top you had multiple turnovers by the whole team, stupid fouls and 3second violations. Wow, it was horrendous.
That game was embarrassing. I’ve sat through a lot of bad losses this year, as we all have, but this one ranks up there with the Lakers loss, and might even be worse; it was just sickening how little the entire team cared.
At least Samardo Samuels can draw charges, right?
Jamison is in pretty good shape for his age, though he does substantially lack quickness. I’d like to see him on a better team with a chance to win.
I have read this blog for quite some time and it is time to stop the Jamison bashing. He’s not even playing and you are writing about how horrible he is. I have lost some respect for your work over the past few weeks, simply due to the fact that every post you put up while he played pointed out how horrible he was on defense. I am not defending him, he’s not a great defender at all and got lit by KG last year, but seriously, put it to rest. There are so many other horrible things players are… Read more »
Krolik, my friend, I know you don’t want to admit it, but this team’s defense has not improved AT ALL since Jamison went down. 4 out of 5 games they’ve given up 52% or better from the field. They just gave up 110 points to the BUCKS.
I watch this team play defense w/o Jamison and I say to myself “wow, this looks just like the defense with Jamison in the line-up. Still terrible.”