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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3681308, member: 405"]
Pretty good effort.  Buddy was amazing in the first half.  Carolina took him out of the second half, but I'm sure he got a few assists.  Guerrier was outstanding.  We just got big boyed again.  No complaints about the players.

We played hard, we fought on the boards, we swarmed them. but they just had too many big guys with size who wore us down on their offensive boards.  Edwards even got meaningful minutes when Marek got his 2nd foul in the first half.

I was very happy to see Karady get meaningful 2nd half minutes, and he played pretty well.  Joe didn't take any truly awful shots tonight, and hit a couple good threes in the 2nd half.  Griffin took a couple bad ones in the first half, but played a more controlled, and very solid 2nd half.

I liked that Rob Braswell seems to be a viable option at forward if Griffin is either out of control, or getting crushed on the boards (4 inch height difference with Braswell out there ...).

You know, we might have won this one, but at least this was a very good effort, we were right with them the whole game.  I mean, they had 7 shots on that one possession, and after that, WE MADE A RUN of like 10 points.

So, props to the team, props to the coach.  Very good effort that came up a bit short.  A pretty enjoyable game to watch, too.  Carolina's running game brings out the best in us, it lets us open up the floor, and get easy shots in transition.  Their style suits us, if not for all the damn big men they have.
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