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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5200311, member: 175"] It wasn’t so much the +/- thing as just the vibe of the game changed. When AK went to the bench I was thinking “uh-oh, danger time. We’re desperate.” And then we pressed a little, turned up the defensive intensity, starting punching back. The whole vibe picked up a bit and we got it down to 3 on the Liam three. Poplar hit a 3 and then Alex checked in and we kept it going. Liam hit 4 foul shots, Solo found Tarris on the slip to tie it - and AK was almost certainly a cog in our closing run with intangibles (spacing, defensive communication, etc.). It won’t be like this every time. AK’s value will always be there and there will be days he checks out and it all goes to crap. On this particular day, though, he was just kinda flat. No other way to say it. And we raised our level when he was out. He’s a veteran and can perhaps learn something that the shots may or may not fall, but the energy level can’t drop. [/QUOTE]