halftime report

[Madhusudhan Gurumurthy]

Just came back from the game at halftime. thought id discuss what I felt our team is capable of.

Being an exhibition game and the first one, you should take any criticism about the plays/players with a 'handful' of salt.

Hicks - he looked totally lost! he wasnt pounding the boards and neither did he play with the power he normally does. In a way, Max's absence showed. 

Gowan played alongside Hicks for the most part and from what I saw today, there really isnt much to say about him. He looked pretty ordinary. Considering Gowan is competing with Coleman and Allen for the position, one expected his best from him. It didnt look good enough.

Allen managed to pull some rebounds but that was usually when there wasnt much traffic at the board. No special post play skills at display.

Coleman got some playing time too. He made some pretty good three pointers. Not good enough to support Hicks in inside play though.

Downey - he was the guy I was looking forward to the most. He lived upto his billing atleast as far as speed goes. He darts across the court in no time and is not afraid to take it all the way to teh basket through heavy traffic near the post.
Guess he will be really good in a year or 2.

Flight white - was very upset with just 1 things
1. gravity - this damn thing just wouldnt let him make one of those glamorous dunks at times when he was a mile away from the basket. He was so upset that one of the time, he took 3 full steps to the basket so he could complete his layup.
he showed no sign/desire of "driving" to the basket in spite of all we heard in the off season.

Armein - what do I say! with the gifts he has as a basketball player, he puzzles you with his lack of energy and drive to excel.

All said, this was teh first game against a lower div opponent. So all that I read into the game was wrong (let hope it is!)

Madhusudhan