It took way longer than expected, but I am done regurgitating, so I will make a few post-game comments.
This game may mark the line in the sand in terms of us not being able to afford to lose another game that we are expected to win and still go dancing. In fact, we may need at least one big upset win to offset this loss.
Despite our previous good play the several previous games, I posted after every one that I saw the number of George TOs as ominous. Yesterday the premonition was fulfilled. How does a player who is supposed to be a plus PG get SEVEN TOs !!! To make matters worse, our best player decided to match that number. Freeman had the game in his hands to win and then missed that critical FT. Overall between those two I never saw so many lame passes.
The FT shooting was also only 64%, though many of those misses came from Starling and Kyle, both of whom have weird FT shooting techniques.
Only two bench points. Betsy reverted to the mean after his spectacular game and White and Anthony are basically works in progress.
The only bright spot was Kingz who really had a fantastic game. I wish i could say this was a break out moment for him, but like many of our adequate average to good, but not great players, I suspect he will have his ups and downs moving forward.
Donnie can be counted on for his 20 and 10 efforts, though yesterday his negatives as discussed above were costly. JJ appears to be improving his consistency, and he had a solid 12 points, 5 boards, and 3 steals.
Dont know why we could only find Kyle for 5 shots, two of which came early, so really only 3 more shots over the last 30 something minutes. BC had nobody to match his athleticism and we couldnt take advantage.
This was a game we lead almost all the way, we had opportunities but could never quite break it open. It was a no excuse loss. When we went to OT I had a bad feeling our goose was cooked, and so it was.
As for Red, I dont know what to say. The team play like they were over-confident and didnt take BC seriously enough. Maybe that is on him. I didnt think Kiyan deserved 17 minutes, but in the end is it his fault that our PG and our best player decided to telegraph every pass and that our best player and best FT shooter missed the one that would have sealed the deal ?? I just dont know.
EDIT - Worst thing Red did, as pointed out by other posters in different thread, was probably to not foul them on their last possession before the three point shot that tied.
