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Message: [QUOTE="RedtheGOB, post: 5548048, member: 8907"] Lil more rewatch. 3:49 that’s the amount of time the starters played before they all got pulled. In that time JJ missed a wide open 3 badly. not a bad shot he was wide open and has to make it. Then George and Freeman took bad 3’s and missed badly. They all just stood around. That set the tone for 30 mins. No one pushed the ball and I’m not sure why cuz we did that at Buffalo. It’s like they were trying to get themselves stuck in bad half court sets. My best guess is that our Guards just hate playing slow cuz they have to think, and with all the stoppages and all the rotations especially. Pace had about 4 fouls in about 3 mins to start the game and they hit the double bonus while we had 1 foul I think which slowed things down to a crawl. The refs let them play after that and we didn’t seem interested in playing that way so slacked. It’s like George and JJ even Kings instead of going with their instinct and getting to the rim decided to slow things down each possession. They just passed and dribbled the ball around late into the shot clock or just heaved bad 3’s way too early. You could tell they wanted to get Donnie and everyone on the court touches every play but that slowed things down way too much and the spacing got out of whack. Really if you watch we had guys open all over the place alot but for some reason we just could not find them. Then no one was decisive and the defense suffered on the other end as usual when the offense is slow and boring. The rebounding was abysmal because their guards rebounded and our didn’t. I’m not going to opine on the hockey line change and Kiyan running the point and guys like Zephyr and Womack playing. Thats all fun and stuff but shouldn’t happen again. If this team wants to win they need to play with a crazy pace, press constantly, and speed the other team up. I know this is an Autry stinks thread and I get it. I’m just trying to figure out why the starters were so bad early on. [/QUOTE]

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