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So my DVR guide says I'm getting the preseason game between the Bobcats and Hawks tonight at 7pm on NBATV. As long as I'm not blacked out, I'll hopefully be watching some Kemba tonight.
 
Missed the earlier part of the game, nice to see he hit the deep ball! Takes big balls and a lot of confidence, no wading into the pool, he's diving into the deep end.

How'd he pickup the fouls? Having a hard time defending or something on the other end?
 
3 personal fouls in 4 minutes according to the box score? Ouch.
 
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Kemba is a better FT and 3pt shooter than Ray Allen #samplesized
 
He's getting good looks but barely missing. He looks to be moving well compared to the guys around him. I could see him being good in this league. There's not many players that play with his intensity all the time.
 
Kemba Walker is the Shabazz Napier of the Charlotte Bobcats. Strange watching him in another uniform. Short on his shots but he'll be a bigtime scorer once the shots start falling.
 
ErieVern4 said:
He's getting good looks but barely missing. He looks to be moving well compared to the guys around him. I could see him being good in this league. There's not many players that play with his intensity all the time.
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you're right. with everyone out of shape he looks like he can run circles around most guys. will definitely be fun to watch.
 
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He's taking a beating offensively and getting to the FT line. Hope his body can hold up to a long season next year, he'll need some thick pads I think.

Looks clear that he has a green light to shoot it, and he's getting open shots I agree Erie. Hopefully he'll start hitting them. Any pass he makes on the perimeter goes immediately back to him.
 
His 3 fouls were a touch on the elbow when Stackhouse (not his man) pulled up from 15 on the break and Kemba came out to challenge. Then he tried to fight over the top of a high screen and bumped the dribbler. His third was when the Bobcats put Augustin and Kemba in together and Kemba was matched up with a 6-7 French 2-guard, who cut the basket and got the ball on the block. Kemba just basically hacked on that one to stop a layup.

Kemba looked ok - a little tentative to attack, but he got open midrange a couple times and the shots just missed, but he was able to get his shots, which is important. He wasn't forcing shots because he couldn't get open. One of his missed threes was a bailout heave as the shot clock expired and I think he went for the dunk out of preseason game showmanship. He didn't create a lot, but fed the post well.
 
I must have missed 5 points of his because he just hit 2 ft's and has 12 points now to lead the bobcats.
 
Thanks for that Gurleyman.

Nice steal for Kemba, more FTs. Despite being 2-9, leads all players in +/-, outplaying Augustin.
 
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Box score readers won't be impressed with 4-13 from the floor. But he's done enough good things to give Charlotte fans a tease of what he can do, especially at the end.
 
He basically won the game for the Bobcats. Nothing has changed.
 
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Take Kemba off the bobcats and they are a d-league team, maybe not even a good d-league team.
 
The Bobcats looked much better with Kemba in the game than otherwise in the 2nd half parts that I saw. He's on the court to finish the game with the ball in his hands. He didn't shoot well overall, but brought home the win. Nice start...strange to see him look winded, not something we saw much of last year.
 
caw said:
Take Kemba off the bobcats and they are a d-league team, maybe not even a good d-league team.
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Take Kemba off of UCONN and they are . . . a bunch of Kemba's students ready to roll!
 
Both teams had their second units at the end, so it isn't necessarily a big deal that he got the ball every time. I was watching more to see how he ran the offense and how well he was able to create. I think he did ok - he was delivering the ball in good spots to people cutting off screens, and he got the ball to Diaw deep on the low block. He didn't turn it over, but got lucky twice with deflections that weren't stolen. You could tell that he was probing the defense a few times for passes after getting by his man, but there weren't many passing options.

He was beat off the dribble on defense a couple times, but a lot of that was the defensive strategy the Bobcats have where they want him to fight over screens. That gives the offensive player a chance to attack the basket, and then it's a matter of team defense. Once he was putting pressure on the ball near midcourt and his guy got by him too easily, but all part of the learning process.
 
18 points in 19 minutes? Not a great shooting performance, but the kid knows how to score, and more importantly, how to win.
 
one cool thing during the broadcast was when the sideline reporter chick talked about her interview with michael jordan about kemba. she said jordan went on for what seemed like a half an hour talking about how great a person and leader kemba is, without even bringing up his basketball ability.
 
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