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Message: [QUOTE="Hunt for 7, post: 5229499, member: 12414"] I could just see Tristen firing one of those over the head swing passes after driving into the elbow then looking off the defender and firing the ball to the open defender. Mahaney is playing better but watching him trying to execute a pick and roll lob is painful. The defender does not respect that he will attack the basket then he looks down Samson the whole way. As soon as he releases the pass the defender is ready and boom a turnover. Not trying to really bash Mahaney because right now I would rather see him take an open three more than any player other Ball. He does still tend to make his open threes. Yes AK hit one big one but he was still throwing up bricks in the the first 3/4 of the game. But as I have mentioned he is the key to winning for us. If you look at the season there are three things that happened that could not. The HC cost us a game with his ego in the first big game of the year. Liam got hurt. Alex turned into a shell of himself. All three had huge consequences. We can blame a lot of things but for me those three items were the ones that impacted this team’s chemistry the most. In that Memphis game we were playing ok and Memphis had a ton of talent but when he lost it I think it scarred the team much more than has been stated. Ten Alex with the concussion and play after returning followed by the Liam injury. Bad things come in three those three hurt our chances greatly. Confidence is a very fragile thing for a 18,19 or 20 year old young men. It’s too bad because if we beat Memphis we may have had a chance to go 3-0 or 2-1 in HI. If Alex was the same player that when he launched a big three you could count on it going in way more than it being a brick. And McNeeley, I continue to believe that sometime after his return he tweaked that ankle. He was ok to play but he has not been the same player. Those high ankle sprains can really be tricky you feel good when you first come back then tweak it and if that happens they linger. Just look at NFL receivers who other than running backs need to have the lateral quickness that bb players do, when they come back from these injuries it is a coin flip on how they will perform. I am a LA Ram fan, and I watched Cooper Kupp deal with a high ankle sprain (s) same thing happened the year he had a high ankle sprain his first two games back he was the old Kupp then he tweaked it on an out route to score TD. The one where you really have to sell a cut to the middle of the field before cutting back to the goal line pylon. [/QUOTE]

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