Things I liked:
-Kristaps Porzingis: Hot start, looked pretty solid overall for a guy who's been off as long as he has. I thought he was a little bit too perimeter oriented early on but he mixed it up a little bit in the third and I don't mind him being careful in preseason
-Tim Hardaway Jr.: It went pretty roughly the rest of the season we traded for him. He got hot tonight, particularly in the 2nd quarter. I'm not expecting consistency out of him but that's a good sign that he is indeed usable as a 6th man microwave off the bench
-Our 1st half defense: I was hard on our defense after last preseason game. I thought it was looking better in the first half even if some of that was Detroit's offensive sloppiness
The first quarter: That early start by Luka and KP was magical
Things I disliked:
-Our defense in the 2nd half: Do I even need to say anything. Yes, this is looking like a problem
-Justin Jackson's disappearance: Sometimes you can make a prediction from preseason. Maxi was consistently balling through several games in last season's preseason and it seemed to be a harbinger of a deserved bigger role for Maxi and indeed it was. It was disappointing to see JJ disappear like this on Luka and KP's return
-Playing Delon Wright on a back to back: The guy has seemed almost invisible when out there. Maybe that's the hamstring but if that's the case why the hell did we play him in back to back preseason games?
-Luka's shot: Was hoping it would look better after a lot of offseason work. Yeah he hit a couple of long 3s, aside from that his perimeter bricklaying including at the line made me willing to have him skip the rest of preseason to go to Germany and work with Holger to try to fix this thing by the regular season even though I want to watch him now
-Kristaps Porzingis: Hot start, looked pretty solid overall for a guy who's been off as long as he has. I thought he was a little bit too perimeter oriented early on but he mixed it up a little bit in the third and I don't mind him being careful in preseason
-Tim Hardaway Jr.: It went pretty roughly the rest of the season we traded for him. He got hot tonight, particularly in the 2nd quarter. I'm not expecting consistency out of him but that's a good sign that he is indeed usable as a 6th man microwave off the bench
-Our 1st half defense: I was hard on our defense after last preseason game. I thought it was looking better in the first half even if some of that was Detroit's offensive sloppiness
The first quarter: That early start by Luka and KP was magical
Things I disliked:
-Our defense in the 2nd half: Do I even need to say anything. Yes, this is looking like a problem
-Justin Jackson's disappearance: Sometimes you can make a prediction from preseason. Maxi was consistently balling through several games in last season's preseason and it seemed to be a harbinger of a deserved bigger role for Maxi and indeed it was. It was disappointing to see JJ disappear like this on Luka and KP's return
-Playing Delon Wright on a back to back: The guy has seemed almost invisible when out there. Maybe that's the hamstring but if that's the case why the hell did we play him in back to back preseason games?
-Luka's shot: Was hoping it would look better after a lot of offseason work. Yeah he hit a couple of long 3s, aside from that his perimeter bricklaying including at the line made me willing to have him skip the rest of preseason to go to Germany and work with Holger to try to fix this thing by the regular season even though I want to watch him now