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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4501841, member: 1329"] So I was stewing about the 2nd half and decided to do a rewatch asap of just the 2nd half (first half was tied, less important). My initial thoughts before starting the re-watch was that the players sucked with execution and focus, and the coaching staff went to the wrong zone (should've gone 2/3), So this is a stream of consciousness description of each possession, similar to when I make notes for my charting. So what are the conclusions and takeaways? We made so many dumb, dumb plays. In one half we: [LIST] [*]Stepped out of bounds catching a pass in transition... twice. [*]Committed two moving screens and 1 offensive push into a screen foul. [*]Didn't stop ball in semi-transition once and gave up a free leak in transition once. [*]Fell for a bunch of pump fakes and usually committed dumb fouls as a result. [*]Went 2/7 from 3 to start the half, then missed 7 straight to get to 2/14 before Calcaterra made the 2 meaningless ones at the end. [*]Got cut backdoor three times for layups or fouls (only 1 due to overplay, 2 not paying attention). [*]Had 3 pick and roll passes stolen. [*]Threw the ball to air or to a guy not ready for a pass for a turnover an additional three times. [*]Missed all 6 floaters/runners/midrange j's we took (they made at least 6 or 7). [*]Put them in the FT bonus with 8 minutes to go (pretty much all legit fouls outside of a moving screen maybe). [/LIST] Again that was all in one half. Bonus individual blunders: [LIST] [*]Hawkins just lost his dribble one time like it was midseason last year and also fouled a guy so softly in transition he still made the layup. [*]Diarra went 1 on 3 out of control once and heavily pressured a non-shooter 25 feet from the hole. [*]Karaban over the back when we were in double bonus. [*]Clingan goaltended. [*]Jackson the all league defender got out-dueled by Rafael Pinzon on back to back possessions and also at one point didn't know what D we were running. [*]Newton was beat back or acted casually several times in transition D. [*]Sanogo tried to take on a double team at one point instead of kicking out. And obviously got ejected. [/LIST] The 1-3-1 was a mixed bag. They didn't necessarily kill it with their execution or drive right through it by any means. We did force a bunch of bad 3s from them while in it. But also we were out of position in it several times due to poor execution which led to scores or fouls. Another random note. I don't think we hard hedged at all that half that I saw. Went under most screens. The Buck stops with Hurley. But there was some real dumb, crappy Buck in this one from the whole team. [/QUOTE]

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