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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5590103, member: 722"]
I think this take is pretty unfair. I can't think of a harder situation for a group of players, in as long as I've been paying close attention.

The three games and three days is hard enough, but they also got two very physical difficult teams. Then they're being asked to play 10 AM local time after a 1 o'clock game the day before. They had 18 hours or less of rest from end of one game to the start of the next. And then on top of everything they found out they were playing at 10 AM the next morning at 10 PM. It's no wonder they ran out of steam in the second half. They played really hard and really well in the first half and just lost it after they gave up a big run to start the second half. It could literally happen to any team. I take a lot more away from the previous five halves of Basketball where they really did well against top competition.

they came up short, and they got crushed in that second half. But it's not really fair to characterize them as lacking defense.
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