Suns 93, Hornets 78: Arguably the Worst Offensive Game in Franchise History

There is no way this team will shoot this bad again. When Eric comes back the offense will get much better. Not only does he command double teams and support defense, it allows Marco to play against second unit. Everyone will do much better next game out.

JJ in the first quarter put some down right nasty moves on Nash. That was nice. Oh and Aminu tried to get in on the offense. (cannot dribble worth a lick though)

Worst game in francise history? What about this doozy?
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201012120PHI.html

We’re still 2-1.

Defense kept us in the game at times. But our offense was horrific. We probably won’t set any more franchise records records for bad offense any time soon, but even with Gordon back, this does not seem like a good offenisve team.

Our heroic rebounding kept this score respectable. Okafor had a great rebounding night. He looks like he’s back to his old self. And you forgot aobut Belinelli’s career rebounding high!

I didn’t think Kaman played that badly actually. He had 3 blocks in 19 minutes. He missed 1 of 5, but everyone else was missing badly as well and it’s not like Okafor is a go to scorer either. Not saying Kaman played well, just don’t single him out for the loss. Frankly, considering his recent history, it’s an accomplishment that he’s actually on the court and he played solidly first two games.

A major issue that is becoming quickly apparent is that our bench is horrible on offense. They’ve been sold on D, but on offense, our bench is getting routinely outscored. Even with the occasional good plays from Vasquez and Kaman, through the first 3 games, including the two wins, bench scoring has gone as follows against us:

24 – 39
22 – 33
24 – 38

At least Aminu looked a little more lively this game and getting Gordon back will help since Marco can help the bench shooting a little bit. But still, it’s a major weakness.

Anyway, we’re still 2-1 whcih is decent and let’s hope that Gordon returns to the court soon.

Minny is now 0-3, which is good for us. But that team is a lot of fun to watch. I see them in the playoffs next year and we can just hope that they don’t get things together that quickly and continue to lose games by 2 points this year. Rubio 12 and 12 off the bench against Miami.

Qpon had 11 off the bench in the Grizzlies win.

Boston and Dallas came up with wins to stop the bleeding.

Washington is in a tailspin. They’re my top pick to finish the season with the worst record in the NBA.

I was at this one. It was nasty. I got to hear lots of silly things, like, “Who is that guy? Take him out of the game!” [Kaman] and, “At least we still have the Saints.”

The crowd was harsh on Kaman. It was just an ugly, ugly offensive night. Gordon should keep us in games, but the shot creation just won’t be there this year.

More often than not. The team just doesn’t have a playmaker in the lineup without Eric Gordon and Jarrett Jack, for all of his efforts, can’t do it every night. I don’t fault him, specifically, for the team’s struggles tonight. He’s just not that type of player. Belinelli had a lot of tough lock shots but he was active all night tonight on the boards, etc. Kaman was particularly awful all game long. Missing pass outs to wide open players, forcing bad shots, missing easy shots, not looking for his teammates, getting beat for rebounds, etc. He was easily the worst player on the roster. Okafor played hard and Jason Smith competed tonight… overall the team just couldn’t make a shot. And considering they shot a lot of jumpers, it may be like that more often than not.

I still feel like they need more of Landry down in the paint but they may be afraid of congesting it down there and that prevents Jack from doing a lot of what he wants to do offensively (same with Gordon too). But he’s not a jumps hooter and I hope they don’t continue to play him in the David West role. It’s a disservice to his talents.

Tough night all around and it’s a game I’m already hoping to forget.

Looks like a good thing. Oof.