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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 4180607, member: 60"]
I'm going to add a disclaimer that I do not like our offense, our rotations, etc, and I'm not trying to defend anyone, but here is my take with this (and not just from last night's instances):

It's almost the end of the year, our guys are playing big minutes, a number of them on O are putting up huge number of shots each game and they are also having to scrap on D because they just aren't good at it in a lot of cases.

So what ends up happening is you have guys that need to pick and choose their moments. They cannot go 100% the whole time and have to ration out energy.

Now, does that mean we shouldn't be able to run a fast break? No, of course not.

But, I may be wrong, I don't believe we get a ton of fast break points at the rim (versus above-the-break threes via fast break), so we don't have a ton of live game experience, we don't really have the personnel for it (just imo), and then we have guys that are probably gassed in the 2H of games, so sprinting down and applying pressure on the D may just be few and far between.

Again, I'm not sure, I don't have our points breakouts to prove that. I'm just saying, for better or worse, in the back half of these games now, with our offensive strategy, Buddy is going to be gassed. Jimmy prob will be, too. I'm sure Cole won't be running sprints after the game, etc.

Just my 0.02. It's a fair point you bring up, but I think we just don't have the experience, personnel and energy to really do it very well. But maybe I'm wrong. Dunno.
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