In all honesty, I got a bit distracted during the game so I might've missed a few things.
Overall, I didn't like our defensive effort. I think we got a bit lucky that Cleveland's offense was a bit disorganized. But Cleveland was a bit lucky themselves with LeBron really making shots. For the most part we kept him from getting to the hoop. I thought we did a poor job of putting bodies between himself and basket though... often with just one defender inbetween. Luckily he didn't take advantage of this throughout the game, but he did start penetrating towards the end of the game. Rondo was having a bit of trouble keeping up with Mo too. Our defensive communitcation has to get better... saw quite a few miscommunications between Rondo, Pierce, KG, Perk, and Williams a different points in the game, but that's expected at this stage of the season.
Penetration, where was our penetration? This is a huge disappointment for me since with the addition of Wallace I really thought Rondo, Pierce, and Daniels would really take advantage of the situation and penetrate like crazy. Is this a play calling problem? A spacing problem? A willfullness of the player problem?
Three-point shooting, we took quite a bit of 3-pointers, and we made them. Really liked them. I can see our team falling in love with it (which in part was what gave Cleveland an opportunity to come back), but overall I really like the 3-point shooting in this team. It should eventually lead to the increase penetration I'm looking for.
Bench, really liked our bench. They put a good defensive effort, and can surely score the ball when needed. Little to complain about it at the moment.
KG, liked what I saw. Clearly not fully ready yet. But if he's at 60%, I can't wait to see him when he gets 40% more healthy.
Fastbreak scoring... I think we need to do a better job on passing the ball in a timely manner for those transition 3s. Ray Allen was missed quite a few times to get a rhythm 3. Also, man we need to do a better job drawing a foul instead of showing the ball to get blocked.
Pierce looked fairly quick with the ball, having decent success blowing by his defender when he decided to do so. He did the same last year during this time of the year, and by the end of the season he wasn't having the same type of success, as far as speed was concerned. Let's see if he can keep up with the speed this time.
Even though Ray missed a few money shots, I think he should've made. But overall I thought his shot and form looked good, so going forward the shots should start going in.
Perkins overall was quiet... and scored a quiet 9 points. Needs to be more active in the rebound department. Don't remember his turnovers so I can't comment, but 3 seems high for him in 26 minutes.
Shelden Williams put in a solid effort, played his role well overall... had some missed opportunities, but he made his free-throws.
Ray 42 minutes, Pierce 38, Daniels 18 minutes. First game, so I don't care, but it's worth mentioning to see if the pattern continues which I highly doubt. No Scal also, first game against Cleveland so understandable. Still, worth mentioning considering what went on last year.
Rasheed Wallace, really liked him even though he had a quick trigger at times. Good defensive effort.
Would've liked to see Giddens for a bit just to see how he handles LeBron. It would've been a good test for him, and a good opportunity for Doc to get a better measure of his defensive capabilities.
Eddie House seemed to be rushing his shots a bit. He was money during preseason, so let's hope he can regain that. Same thing happened last year. He's controling the ball more than I would like. Keep the ball in Daniels hands... isn't that supposed to be the plan?
Overall, I thought we played a poor game... we can certainly do much better, yet we came out on top. Scary.
Daniels > Moon.
