Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Stopping a scorer?

I mentioned yesterday that the Bucks cannot handle elite scorers in the league. Well, I decided to go back to their last 9 games where they played against a player who can just ring the bell and see how they have done. Here's the results:


PlayerPts ScoredPts Over AvgFG%
McGrady411453.1%
Dirk35966.7%
Carmelo381265.0%
LeBron35/528/1563.6%/65.5%
Wade35/2710/271.4%/64.2%
Iverson23-1136.3%
Kobe33158.3%
Total35859.5%



The 2 things that jump out at me are that on avg these scorers score 8 more than their avg and shoot 59.5% from the field. That's friggin' unbelievable! I took how much the players scoring average was at the time they played the Bucks. The Bucks are not a good defensive team (yeah, I know, big newsflash and all) but they cannot let the other team's big guys have this much free reign. Do what you have to to stop the big guys and make the other guys on the court beat you. The Bucks are 2-7 in these games and I'm sure the numbers are about as bad if I go back even further. The good news is, there's no big scorers in the picture until the rematch with T-Mac in about a week, bad news is the Pistons are in town tonight, so chalk up another loss.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're my big scorer!!
-the Wife

Cheesehead Craig said...

Hey-ooooooohhhhh!!!