Doesn't sound like Novak is going to make it. Maybe Panthetako would be interested to form the best one two punch in europe that can regularly beat rockets starters.
i'm excited w/ how well francis played in game 2. his stroke was looking good. but TOs still concern me. hopefully adelman will use this week to implement what he wants in terms of plays run for individual players b/c we cannot depend on just freelancing and seeing what the defense gives us. and it's good to see adelman is drilling some defense into them. i'm actually not worried about defense by the effort so far in the 2 preseason games. we still seem to keep some of the defensive philosophy kept by JVG (like stay closer to the paint, give up the jumper if have to, quick rotations and closing out your man...). i'm excited for next week when we have some good opponents. i feel we will have a clearer understanding of the rotation by the end of next week as we head closer to the lakers game.
Let's all hope Adelman can hide Francis' ballhandling deficiencies by making sure the only time he touches the ball is when catching and finishing an alley-oop. Oh and let's hide Rafer's too, by making him never shoot and simply feed Francis for those alley-oops.
Francis play better when Yao is on the floor cuz they're buddy...that's why you see Adelman put him and Yao in together.
