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[QUOTE="newmexicuse, post: 4986909, member: 57"]
Well, obviously it was a seesaw. We went from cruising mode to needing the life jacket mode.

There were definitely some positives:

1. I like Chris Bell's progression. He scored 18 points efficiently including 4 for 6 from trey range. He contested shots on D and had 2 blocks. He fought on the Boards and ended up with 4. He is slowly and steadily improving in that regard. In crunchtime he grabbed that key board and nailed the two freebies. He was my player of the game.
2. Justin moved well without the ball and shot a perfect 4 for 4 from in close and ended up with ten points. His O confidence is slowly increasing. Somehow he got zero boards though I cant say he wasnt trying.
3. Judah hit 333 - three steals, three assists, and three boards to go with his efficient 21. Nice game.
4. Maliq was maliqqing - 14 and 7 to go with five dimes and 2 blocks. Also very solid.
5. JJ and Cope - Neither was terrible, but neither was near their best. I really wanted JJ to game out against his old team. Cope did have a key defend on the late game trey attempt that might have tied it up.
6. Cuffe and Carey - The C boys gave us some minutes - I thought a few too many on the court together when Dame rallied just before halftime. They need to be separated - lose too much O when they are on the court together.

Though we can look at individuals and say everybody was OK to good, somehow that disregards the end of first half and almost entire second half collapse on the D end. It looked like we went from coasting to panicking on D. Just lost the first half mojo and never got it back though we re-grouped just enough to hang on.
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