Monday, October 29, 2018

God damn the pusher. Excremento, the "Kinks," went into American Airlines Arena in Miami and beat the "Heat 123-133. Let's look at the box score and piece together this embarrassment. Un momento por favor...

Balanced scoring for Sac, 3 guys with 20+ and one with 19. What immediately stands out is the stat line for W. Cauley-Stein, their center, he who would play opposite Hassan Whiteside. W. had a Hassan game, a team high 26 points on 11/17 and 13 rebounds (11). Now, what did Hassan do? Well, shiver my timbers, Hassan had a Hassan game too! (?) 16 points, 24 rebounds (19), 5 blocks but 6 TO's. Twenty four rebounds! Watafa?

The Dragon? 20 on 7/15, 4/8, 5 assists. That's good! How did Sac's PG do? 20 on 8/15, 1/2, 8 assists. That matchup wasn't the diff.

JRich had a tremendous game: 31, 10/21, 4/10. He crushed Sac's SG who had 8, 3/7, 2/4.

WTF????

Sacramento won by 10, I don't see a 10 point Sac advantage here. Kelly Olynyk got eaten alive at PF by N. Bjelica. N had 19 to Kelly's 3. That's a 16 point swing West. Maybe that was it.

The benches were about even, I don't see a glaring difference there. What do we have? W outscored Hassan by 10 but took far more shots. Oh! Sac had two shooting guards. One, Ian Shumpert, sucked with only 8 points but the other, B. Hield had 23. Add those together and you get 31, which is what Josh had.

Boy, it looks very much like it came down to the disparity in the PF's. N's 19 to Kelly's 3. WHO THE FUCK IS N. BJELICA?! Fucking game winner is who N. was tonight. FUCK ME!

Miami led by 11 after 1Q, seems like a familiar stat after 1 but over the next 2 Sac chilled the "Heat" by a +22 and Miami only got one point back in the 4Q.

Sac shot a very uncharacteristic 49.5% against the "Heat." That is putrid defense by Miami and the "Heat" only shot 41%. Ah, that's the diff. Miami didn't play D. That is going to frost the balls of Erik Spoelstra and Pat Riley.

Very disappointing game from the "Heat." They had won two in a row and I thought they were jelling. This was a terrible step back. They are the definition of mediocrity after six games, 3-3.