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Milwaukee Bucks (Scott Skiles) 5-5
Inactive: Chris Douglas Roberts, Michael Redd, Darington Hobson

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Los Angeles Lakers (Phil Jackson) 8-2
Inactive: Andrew Bynum, Theo Ratliff

Date: 11/16/2010
Game Time: 7:00 PM (CST)
TV: FS Wisconsin

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Point Guard

Brandon Jennings vs. Derek Fisher

Jennings will once again have a quickness advantage, but will he be able to put it to use?  He’s been much, much better finishing at the rim this season, but his in-between game still needs work.  It’s hard to complain too much though, he’s having a strong second season and been very effective in a lot of areas in the game over the past three games.  Fisher has been a little better this year than he was last year, specifically with his outside shooting (12-22 on 3FG), but he’s still largely out there because he’s savvy.  He’ll probably draw a charge at some point tonight that no one will like and he’ll probably hit an open three.  If Milwaukee’s going to win this game, it would help greatly if Jennings dominated this match-up.

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Los Angeles Lakers (Phil Jackson) 19-4

(Likely) Inactives: Luke Walton

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Milwaukee Bucks (Scott Skiles) 11-11

(Likely) Inactives: Joe Alexander, Francisco Elson and Jodie Meeks

Date: 12/16/2009

Time: 7:00 (CST)

TV: FS Wisconsin

Match-Ups

Point Guard

Brandon Jennings vs. Derek Fisher

Fisher is a stat-head’s nightmare.  His PER is under ten.  He is shooting 30 percent from three and less than 40 percent from the field.  He’s basically been living off “veteran ingenuity” for two or three years.  But he’s also the starting point guard on the best team in the NBA, so how bad could he really be?  I’m torn on Fisher and have been for a few years.  Maybe he’s one of the players that these new fanged stats can’t properly asses, I mean they already appear biased towards power forwards and centers.  Perhaps Fisher’s game is still good, but just in unmeasurable ways.  But then I think … nah, he sucks.  And that usually wins the argument in my head.

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