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Opening Night 2016

Posted on February 11, 2014 at 09:17 PM.

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Walking into the stadium I feel very optimistic about our chances in tonight's game vs the Chicago Bulls. Our young players have great mentors on the team in Devin Harris and LaMarcus Aldridge, and I also feel that Michael Carter-Williams is primed and ready to become the next superstar PG in the NBA.

The Matchup

Derrick Rose is just so destructive to a defense that if you dare leave him singled up on defense he can easily give you 30 pentrating straight through the teeth of the defense. Our gameplan is an WILL always be too make someone else beat us. Jimmy Butler is a pretty good spot up shooter but Lanier is kinda shaky, so the plan will be to double hard on Rose in dribble drive situations and rotate hard to Jimmy Butler on kickouts. Lanier should get a boat load of wide open shots but it's pick your poison dealing with Rose so we going with that gameplan defensively.

Offensively I plan on exploiting the huge mismatch with Lamarcus Aldridge and Taj Gibson. After a few quick baskets in the half court sets the Bulls defense will have no choice but to send help and that should give us the space we need to get our shooters open or create better driving lanes. MCW will have to play under control and watch his passes, Chicago has on off the best defensive starting 5's in the NBA. We are also going to have to get our newly aquired players up to speed with how we our running our sets, Player will be a jack of all trades guy for us of the bench for now and Anderson's energy and hustle to the backboard reminds me of Kenny Faried.

Game film-----Sorry for the quality on this one

Ugggghhhh...sneaking away with a 1 point victory in this contest got me hype to play some more 2K!! Our game plan to force Rose to be a passer worked as well as it could. Rose only attempted 13 fg and you can attribute that to the Sixers swarming and double teaming everywhere he went. Jimmy Butler performed well dropping 26-5-3 in 41 mins. Will Lanier had a career night and a couple of nasty highlight dunks Eeeeewwwww!!

The 76ers gameplan to attack through Aldridge proved to be a great coaching decision, albeit an easy one. 30pts and 14rb had the Bulls defense just as on edge as Rose had to ours. ET had a decent statline posting 18pts 4rb and 2as but shooting only 1-8 in two point shots is nnot gonna cut it! Wroten needs to improve his jumpshot, defenses are leaving him open on the wing to help on MCW penetration so either he need's to improve or penetrate more, also cut down on the turnovers(5). Carter-Williams had a laid back game 13-5-7 but he protected the ball and hounded Rose all night so we can't complain about the outcome.

Next Game vs the Dallas Mavericks