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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 872884, member: 581"]
I was surprised by how off some of Cooney's shots were after he began missing some threes.  Typically most of his shots look like they have a chance - in this one my first reaction when he let go of the ball was, WOW, that's not gonna be close.  Kind of shocking considering his accuracy of late - not sure what to chalk that up to.

Agree wholeheartedly on point 1.  At the very least G has to show that he's willing to take the shot - and preferably nail a couple.  I believe his rep was that he was a pretty decent shooter, so hopefully we see that aspect of his game at some point.  Until then he's not going to draw much defense, and really limit the one thing he seemed to have some luck with early on - taking it to the rim. He doesn't have blow by speed, so he needs to make the defenders play him honest.

Not sure about the alley-oops......once that zone starts cheating out the way it does I would think the responsibility is solely on the center.  I think the forwards need to show awareness, but I think Rak/Baye are expected to defend those passes.  And honestly they were perfectly thrown, there wasn't one of them that I didn't think we would tip.  Hats off to Miami for that, most teams don't prove so successful in that regard.
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