We didn't shoot much better either, 39.6% (27.6%). Bam team high, 24 in 30', 9 reb--against KD too; Jimmy 17 in 37', 14, 7, 4, 1, (3). Lotta minutes for Jimmy. Lotta production. Jimmy's the team. PJ Tucker had a nice game, by far his best in the 305: 15 in 32', 7 reb, 2 ast. Dewayne Dedmon big game off the bench, he's a big guy, D.D., 7-footer, 14 in 17’, 9 reb 1 ast (1). Tyler 14 in 27’ on 5/17 (1/6) *ouch* 8(!) reb, 2 ast, (3). The starters in addition to PJ, Jimmy and Bam were Kyle, 9 on 3/8 (1/5) in 34', 6, 9, (3), and Duncan, 6 2/7 (2/7) in 32', 5 reb, 1 ast, 1 blk, (1).
Take a brief look at the "Nyets" who musta stunk the joint out. 38.8% (32.6%). Well, somebody's gotta win the game. KD game-high with 25 in 37', 11 reb, 2 ast, 1 stl, 2 blk (5). Kevin a -14 for the game. J. Harris 15 (-22), big minus, J. B. Brown 14 (-12). James 14, 7, 7, 1 stl, 1 blk, (4) -12. Only "Nyet" starter in + was Blake Griffin +3. So according to the execrable +/- BKLYN woulda been bettah benching all their starters except Blake. Yeah.
I've written this before: Sometimes the box score tells the whole score, sometimes it don't. I looked up at the score before I wrote that sentence and I still don't see how all that brick adds up to a MIA 13 point win. But somehow it do.
Never expected that at HT.
KD is saying all the right things. "We can't wait on Kyrie Irving to come save us. We have to play better." Which, duh. That mental midget head case needs to save a team with Kevin Durant and James Harden on it? Gimme. But it has has to be getting very frustrating for everyone connected to the team. There are protests in support of Bed Bugs outside Barclays every night of home games; the team, projected to win the conference by many, is 2-3. They were 3.5 point favorites to win tonight and they lost by two touchdowns and a missed PAT. I'll bet there are chants of "We Want Kyrie" inside the arena. Management has got to be feeling the heat of the protests and the poor start. It was they, who, to the applause of all cognos (who don't write the checks, btw), suspended Kyrie from all team activities home and away on the "you're either in or out, no half-ways" principle and have to pay the half man king of the punk asses for the away games he is eligible to play. And if management relented and let him play on the road, how would that sit with Kevin, James, and the others? If I were the players, I'd be pissed. I wouldn't be all "Kyrie! Bruh! Welcome back. We missed you!" Nah-ah. I'd resent him. Wouldn't management thus have concluded the team does need this moron to come "save" this coalition of the willing who aren't winning? In this management calculus they are up against the stubborn fact that Kyrie Irving is a great basketball player, GREAT. They'e paying half-price for a zero percentage performer. That is a bottom line that defies sense. I'd rather trade his bed bug bitten ass to a team that doesn't have NYC's COVID mandate and get something for him. All in all, and in all ways, things are pretty rotten in the Borough.
