http://www.bucksketball.com/2010/10/recaping-the-bucks-pre-season-weekend-road-trip/ Fri, 24 May 2013 11:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.bucksketball.com/2010/10/recaping-the-bucks-pre-season-weekend-road-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3862 Jeremy Schmidt Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:51:43 +0000 http://www.bucksketball.com/?p=2032#comment-3862 Chris – I think you’re on track with a lot of your thoughts. I think CD-R is ready to handle being a role player, so long as he’s in a winning and comfortable environment. If Milwaukee isn’t that this year, we’ll all be shocked. I think Jennings has looked pretty good in the games I’ve seen and Gooden certainly has been as good as anyone could have expected.

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While obviously not the ideal way of judging players, since none of these games are locally televised I have no other choice.
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Here is what the preseason box scores have taught me.
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- Drew Gooden looks as though he was worthy of that contract, and worthy of the starting PF position. Offense is where we needed the most help, and it looks as though he’s been delivering on that end. He has shot 5-9 for 12 points in 20 minutes, 6-11 for 14 in 23, 5-12 for 15 in 27, 9-15 for 25 in 28 (!!), 4-13 for 13 in 21, and 3-4 for 8 in 10. Not bad at all. He’s also been getting to the free throw line a good amount while staying fairly accurate. Also — despite averaging around 20 minutes per game he’s still contributing his fair share to grabbing rebounds, as he’s averaging 5.2 per game.
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- While Brandon Jennings hasn’t seemed to have made a surprise leap into stardom (as too many of us were hoping for) nor has he seemed to fix the issues he has with consistency, he hasn’t been playing poorly either. When he’s not scoring he seems to be at least contributing something each game. These contributions have included 7 assists (in 25 minutes), 3 steals, or going 9-10 from the FT line. It appears also that he still has the ability to “explode” and put up stat lines like in his preseason game 3 — 18 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, and 3 steals in 23 minutes. While not amazed by BJennings stats thus far I am not worried about them either.
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- CDR, (again going by preseason box scores…) is looking like a good third option at best. I hope his ego can handle this. As much as I wish he was sneaky-good I’m starting to think that first two months in NJ was fluke-rule eligible.

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