[EricaLubarsky]

Seeing as how we've emptied our bench in the fourth all three games, I'd put us potentially at 3-0. We were winning a close one against the Pelicans. We were blowing out the Grizz and tonight we had a 1pt lead before emptying the bench. Not too shabby. 1-2 definitely doesn't reflect how good the top 8-9 guys can be.

Honestly we were getting shot out of the gym all night-- everyone was hitting threes so we played on our heels. I do have the feeling that 3pt defense will be a weakness again this year, but most teams won't drop 10 threes on us that efficiently.

Looks like coach wanted the boys to gut out a "win" before pulling them and they were able to do that despite shooting like crap and being shot out of the gym. Twice we were down 1-2, and twice Dirk and Ellis rained a three that gave us the lead and we held onto the lead going into the fourth-- when we emptied the bench and played Balkman/Ebanks/Ledo/Ellington/McConnell

Dirk is ON. No rebounds (and rebounds were an issue this game), but an efficient 24pts in 25minutes is to die for.

Ellis started cold, but got really hot and shifted the game in our favor-- winning the third quarter for us.

Crowder was pretty disappointing. We are going to miss Marion when he retires.

Mekel was okay and better than his stat line, but has a ways to go.

Carter and Ellington came back down to earth after being out of this world earlier

James' 5-5-1 line looks better than it was.

Ledo is talented but ROUGH. He didn't play college ball and was used to being faster and stronger than guys in high school. He's been good at times, but he has a way to go to figure out how to do it against bigger guys that are almost as fast.