Dvdvideo wrote:
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That said, it was really a collective bag of problems last night:
1) Overhelping on Durant, while at the same time trying to press-up on non-shooters like Duke and Clayton, resulting in dunks and layups in the first half.
2) Selfish ISO ball for almost all of the night (it almost worked, though)
3) Poor rebounding and not boxing out (some of that was being out of position on long rebounds due to overhelping)
4) The aforementioned bench lineup (especially missing a ton of wide open 3s)
5) Bad decisions by Fred in the closing minutes (he's not Lowry)
I think it came down to under-estimating the Nets decimated roster and the Raps thinking they could get away playing selfish, un-focused ball and still get the win. They almost pulled it out, but this team obviously isn't talented enough to underestimate anybody.
On the 4th quarter game-tying basket by Mills, the Nets still passed the ball around to get the best shot. Think about it: Brooklyn has Kevin Durant... the best 1-on-1 scorer of the last decade and they still trusted scrubs and rookies to make the right decision and find the open man. We have FVV and Siakam and we feel we need to go ISO? What's up with that?
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