Friday, November 14, 2003
PACERS 101, SUPERSONICS 78
What happens when you have a team with no post presence that relies on jumpshots falling, and then the jumpshots don't fall? You get something like the score above...
The Sonics get the Gas Face tonight at the hands of the Pacers, who now have competent coaching. It should also be noted that Jamaal Tinsley gets almost no play now. Remember when everyone was ranting and raving about him a couple years ago? No more, I guess. Tonight, the Pacers had Jeff Foster set a Conseco Fieldhouse record for offensive rebounds with 10.
The Sonics...5 of their first 7 possessions were turnovers. The Pacers kept going to the line. Their defense was solid. The Sonics shot 36.5% from the field. The Pacers had six players score in double figures; the Sonics had three (Daniels, Murray, Lewis).
Murray finally scored under 20 points in a game, but he was still the leading scorer, which wasn't good news for the Sonics tonight. He shot 6 of 15 from the field. Lewis shot 5 of 16 from the field. Antonio Daniels was put in because Ridnour was a zoo out there (2 turnovers, 3 fouls in 11 minutes) and scored 4 of 5 from the field and 5 of 6 for free throws. Yes, that's Antonio Daniels finally getting some play and yes, he did something. Why this guy had been DNPCD'd so many times I'll never know.
Anyway, the Sonics have the Bulls tomorrow for their 4th game in 5 days. It's always brutal when the Sonics get put on these kind of road trips, it really is, but that's life as a Sonic.
The Sonics get the Gas Face tonight at the hands of the Pacers, who now have competent coaching. It should also be noted that Jamaal Tinsley gets almost no play now. Remember when everyone was ranting and raving about him a couple years ago? No more, I guess. Tonight, the Pacers had Jeff Foster set a Conseco Fieldhouse record for offensive rebounds with 10.
The Sonics...5 of their first 7 possessions were turnovers. The Pacers kept going to the line. Their defense was solid. The Sonics shot 36.5% from the field. The Pacers had six players score in double figures; the Sonics had three (Daniels, Murray, Lewis).
Murray finally scored under 20 points in a game, but he was still the leading scorer, which wasn't good news for the Sonics tonight. He shot 6 of 15 from the field. Lewis shot 5 of 16 from the field. Antonio Daniels was put in because Ridnour was a zoo out there (2 turnovers, 3 fouls in 11 minutes) and scored 4 of 5 from the field and 5 of 6 for free throws. Yes, that's Antonio Daniels finally getting some play and yes, he did something. Why this guy had been DNPCD'd so many times I'll never know.
Anyway, the Sonics have the Bulls tomorrow for their 4th game in 5 days. It's always brutal when the Sonics get put on these kind of road trips, it really is, but that's life as a Sonic.
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