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[QUOTE="Jimdish255, post: 4888728, member: 137"]
The only answers to a motivated team raining threes and complementing with a midrange game are disciplined defense, an inside option, drive and dish and hitting some of your own perimeter shots. We had very little of that with Clingan on the bench, Cam and Tristen under constant pressure, and Karaban somehow ghosting us when we desperately need him.

I will say this as food for thought. I think it's not worth it to bench Clingan for long stretches despite foul trouble. If you're letting a good team dominate inside and allowing them to put glue on your other 4 because there's no pressure to give help inside the game can easily get out of hand. If you save Clingan and he finishes the game with 3 or 4 fouls you have by definition not gotten maximum minutes out of him. I'd rather  let him manage his defensive game and his screens and get those minutes than pretend our coach has some magic sauce to pull the game out with him down the stretch. It's coaching vanity and they all do it. The rest is up to the refs but we need maximum minutes before a top 10 team at home blows a game open. Just my opinion.
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