Regular Season - Sim 28

– 111
– 125

Marcus Smart – 33 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast, 2 stl, 2 blk, fouled out in 29 minutes
Anthony Davis – 24 pts, 13 reb, 3 blk
Mike Dunleavy – 11 pts, 5 ast
DeAndre Jordan – 10 pts, 7 reb, 4 blk

This was a game I was worried about, especially on the road, and my fears came true as Damian Lillard went bananas on us with 44 points, 8 boards, 6 assists and 2 steals while fouling out Marcus Smart in just 29 minutes of play. Without Smart playing his full complement of minutes, we didn’t have a chance in this one. DeAndre Jordan was also in foul trouble tonight, limited to 26 minutes himself. Both teams shot the ball tremendously, with us actually shooting better (by 1 shot lol) but the difference from beyond the arc and at the line was the difference in this one as well as turnovers.

Great game and we look forward to Portland coming to Nawlins in the during Thursday’s sim!

1/1 - Phoenix Suns, 89 @ Minnesota Timberwolves, 112
Ben McLemore - 27 points, 6 assists, 2 rebounds
Kevin Love - 16 points, 11 rebounds
Danny Granger - 15 points, 4 rebounds
Chandler Parsons - 10 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists

We handily won this one by shutting down their entire offense, even with Andrew Bogut hurt. We forced them to shoot 34% from the field. Phoenix's savior Kendall Marshall was held to 2/11 shooting with 5 points. Anthony Bennett shot 3 of 9 and Mitch McGary shot 6 of 14.

Ben McLemore abused JJ Redick leading the game in scoring wiht 27 points and shooting 3 of 5 from 3. Kevin Love puts up his usual double double to keep himself among the league leaders in double doubles. We also continued our well rounded scoring with 6 players in double figure scoring.

I was pleasantly surprised with how Willie Cauley, our starting center until Bogut gets healthy, handled Mitch McGary who has played really well so far this season.

Next up we have the Lakers who we beat earlier on this season, but they'll have Horford this time and we'll be without Andrew Bogut, so they could take this one from us.

- 123
- 99

Klay Thompson - 40pts, 14/23FG, 11/16 3PT
Brook Lopez - 20pts, 7reb, 4ast, 3blk, 2stl, 10/18FT
Eric Bledsoe - 13pts, 6reb, 3blk, 2stl

Ricky Rubio - 13pts, 20ast, 6stl
Chris Bosh - 25pts, 6reb, 11/13FT in 25min
Kosta Koufos - 28pts, 6reb


Notes:
Talk about an epic game from the Knicks. They must be happy about that win, I can't believe we lost at home honestly, that's not a good sign at all. We got absolutely killed though, despite shooting 57% from long range which was due to Klay hitting 11. We had no offense outside of that and shot only 40% to their electric 57% as a team. They killed us on the boards and we had 31 team fouls. I didn't make any adjustments this game because I figured being a home game we'd have no problems but man...I was definitely wrong. We couldn't find anyone to generate any offense except from Klay & Brook, which is obvious since they're are only true scoring threats. Sad to see Burke only register 13 minutes..that needs to change and maybe we would have had a chance. Adjustments on the way but this 4 game road trip coming up is not going to be fun.