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[QUOTE="orangepassion, post: 222893, member: 14"]
I never like a game to be broken down as simple as one team made shots and the other didn't, but i believe that's what the 1st half was about. Love the zone this year, but still wish we could switch to a man-2-man when a team gets hot like that, even if only for a few minutes to give a different look and mess up their rhythm.
 
However, to me, the biggest weakness of this team is defensive rebounding. I know the numbers didn't look bad, but in the 2nd half Gates was literally right under the basket for every rebound and the only reason he didn't have more rebounds was b/c Cincy started turning the ball over and missing long when they missed. If you watch the game, Melo was trying to front Gates most of the 2nd half, which allowed Gates to easilly get between him and the basket for offensive rebounds, followed by an easy layup or foul. I would much rather see Gates try to shoot over Melo, who is significantly taller than get easy layups.
 
Don't know how much of a factor Joseph's thumb was, but we're going to need him. The only players who did anything positive in this game were Waiters and Melo. I don't recall a game where so many players were bad and yet b/c of Waiters, we could have stolen the game if we could hit some free throws in the 2nd half.
 
Going forth in the tournament, I believe the key to going far is securing those defensive rebounds. We need to worry more about blocking out than blocking shots. There were several games this year where we were ready to pull away and the only thing keeping other teams in games were the offensive rebound/putbacks. Hope that is the #1 focus this week.
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