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[QUOTE="gtcam, post: 3686110, member: 2844"]
Without Marcus Smart this team is already home
Tatum may be a huge talent but his basketball IQ is in the gutter and is too moody to be a consistent superstar - Butler was the same way, he grew out of it so will Tatum-hopefully
Kemba needs to know how to lead a team in this type of pressure situation - he's been through it with UConn in 2011 and I would expect it to be there now - he looks overwhelmed at times
I think Stevens is looking for a leader on the floor but no one has been consistent in that role during these playoffs.
Has Stevens made any mistakes? oh yeah but I don't fault him on the Theis/Kanter situation. These playoffs have been a series of runs and in those runs it is usually defensive stops that dictate the flow and you simply can't do that with Kantor in there for extended periods - BTW if I had to play one of them the full game, Theis is my choice with Williams being a close second. I play Kantor when I have an appreciable lead and need to have some offensive output from my 5 to keep the lead.
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