Nets on the Net: 1/17/10 Edition
Jan 17, 2010 Brooklyn, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Devin Harris, Kris Humphries, Nets on the Net, Trenton Hassell, Yi
The Boston Globe calls Chris Douglas-Roberts the Michael Jordan of NBA Tweets for his usage of the Twitter platform.
Dave D’Alessandro reports that the Nets are happy with some of the early activity of Kris Humphries: “I’ve known him since college, and I always followed him in Toronto and Utah and Dallas,” fellow Big-10’er Devin Harris said. “He’s really a great guy. And he’s going to surprise people — he’s strong, solid, and aggressive, which any team needs. You play him a lot, he gets you double-digits.”
It’s amazing how at 3-36, the Nets are still trying to determine why they can’t find any consistency: “I think we get frustrated on offense and it affects our defense sometimes,” Hassell said. “When shots aren’t falling we need to play tougher defense. We get down on ourselves offensively when they’re not falling, and then the lapse happens on defense.”
A profile of Marco Glorious, who has the unfortunate job title of being the hype man for the Nets.
More Atlantic Yards protests at Freddy’s Bar.
Video Breakdown: Game 13, Nets VS. Knicks
Nov 24, 2009 Brook Lopez, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Josh Boone, Nets vs. Knicks, Trenton Hassell, Video Breakdown, Xs and Os
So the Knicks game was a big disappointment. This was the Nets final chance to get a win before a brutal west coast swing and most likely a new record in futility. The Nets scored 91 points, and while some of that had to do with the return of Devin Harris, it also was because the Nets’ played right into the Knicks’ hands. They were flying up and down the court, taking quick shots, and playing little defense. That final point is what disappointed me the most. The Nets have been playing great defense as of late, and they really took a step back on Saturday, especially when defending the 3. They allowed the Knicks to shoot above their season total from the 3 point line (31% on the year/35% in the game). A lot of it had to do with poor rotation, resulting in wide open 3s. Here we are going to take a look at 2 wide open threes the Knicks got, netting them 6 points (Big points when you realize the Nets lost by 7).
Defending Danilo Gallinari
Look at the above picture for a moment. I mean really examine it. There isn’t a better picture that sums up a game between an 0-12 team and a 3-9 team. I mean you got David Lee falling and tripping Chris Duhon, Brook watching the whole thing, Rafer Alston covering nobody, and nobody within 10 feet of maybe the best 3 point shooter in the NBA. Let’s look how this play developed:
Video Breakdown: Games 8, 9, & 10
Nov 16, 2009 Chris Douglas-Roberts, Josh Boone, Nets vs. Heat, Nets vs. Magic, Nets vs. Sixers, Terrence Williams, Trenton Hassell, Video Breakdown, Xs and Os
So I have been a little behind in terms of breakdowns but we are catching up right here and now. We are going to be looking at some stuff from the game against Philly, @ Orlando, and @Miami. As of right now, a lot of the stuff you are going to see here is going to look like nit-picking (especially with how well the team has been playing despite being limited), but if some of the bad stuff seen here continues as people start coming back, it could be a problem. This is going to be a big one, get those reading glasses on:
Some Stuff From Practice Today
Nov 16, 2009 Brook Lopez, Courtney Lee, Devin Harris, Josh Boone, Lawrence Frank, Practice Reports, Sean Williams, Trenton Hassell
I had the pleasure of going to Nets practice today, and I came away with some real good stuff. First and foremost the thing that I noticed was that this team is still playing hard, the media only gets to sit in on the final few moments of the actual practice, but they were still going hard, and just by the look on all of the guys faces, you can tell they were really going at it the whole practice. Courtney Lee was working too, but I couldn’t tell if he went the whole practice or if he was just participating in the drills at the end. Either way it looks like he is still struggling with the injury a bit (at least to me), so I wouldn’t expect to see him playing either of the next two games. Anyway, here is some stuff I took away from Nets’ practice today.
Talking Health and PER
Nov 13, 2009 Analysis, Bobby Simmons, Eduardo Najera, Injuries, Josh Boone, Rafer Alston, Terrence Williams, Trenton Hassell
While the Nets 0-8 start to the season is a pretty definitive indicator as to how the rash of injuries is affecting the team’s performance, there are some advanced statistics out there that really hammer home what happens when a team is forced to either play guys out of position, or give starter’s minutes to players who are career back-ups or in some cases, career-12th-men.
One of the more interesting statistics available on the great statistical site 82games, is PER (Player Efficiency Rating) differential. 82games looks at a player’s PER while playing a specific position, and then also provides PER data for opposing player’s slotted at that same position. In other words, when Brook Lopez is playing center, he currently has a PER of 20.7, while opposing centers have a PER of 13.1 while Brook is on the floor, creating a PER differntial of + 7.6 (which is very good). I like looking at this metric because in addition to giving you an idea of how a guy stacks up at a certain position, it also provides some insight about his defensive abilities against other player’s at that position.
And for those of you who have not bought in to the advance statistics thing for the NBA yet, a quick refresher: PER is the overall rating of a player’s per-48 minute statistical production including scoring, shooting percentages, rebounding, assists, turnovers and other metrics. A PER of 15.0 is considered the mean, with anything above 15 being above average, and below 15 is obviously below average. You’ll find that Sebastian and I throw PER around a lot on this site, so if you never knew what we were talking about, there you go.
So in many cases in the early-part of this Nets season, the PER differential for some players is just alarmingly awful. After the jump, let’s break this down into two groups, players playing out of position and players getting big minutes who in a perfect world, would be riding the bench or inactive. Read the rest of this entry »
Scouting Report: Trenton Hassell
Sep 21, 2009 Scouting Reports, Trenton Hassell
Name: Trenton Hassell
Position: G/F
Height: 6′5″
Weight: 233
Birth Date: March 4, 1979 (age 30)
Birth Place: Clarksville, Tennessee
Number: 44
College: Austin Peay
Drafted: 2001, 2nd round, 30th overall by Chicago
Experience: 8 seasons
Contract: $4,350,000 million in 2009-10
On offense:
Trenton’s offensive game has always been pretty limited, and last year he continued that trend. With a weak handle and no real quickness to speak of, Hassell was pretty much relegated to a spot-up shooter role (75% of his total shots are jumpers). Trenton Hassell wasn’t a three point shooter (only 8 attempted). Let’s take a look at his shot chart:
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