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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 5335816, member: 9403"] Lot to unpack there. I guess to me resting starters down the stretch doesn't seem like a bad idea and clearly it worked well for the Lynx - each of Phee, Lan, and McBuckets sat out one of the last games, and they looked very fresh yesterday (too fresh, gosh darn!) I question AT's statement that they got the shots they wanted - to me the biggest difference between the Lib and Merc down the stretch was willingness to work into the possession. The Lib were way more patient and taking smarter, good to great shots. The Merc kept hoisting stuff up 5 seconds into the shot clock. And clearly Satou was off, so maybe have her set screens and look to get inside, but lord she needed to stop bricking from outside seconds into a possession. AT was the only one who I thought consistently dribbled her way inside effectively, and so in that sense, yes, I think [I]she[/I] was mostly taking good shots. But as a group, the Merc were an offensive dumpster fire in the second half, saved only by really good defense and the Lib being terrible at passing the ball inside. To me the major question for game 2 is Meeseman - does the former finals MVP show up, or the sloppy, step slow player we saw yesterday? (I'm assuming no matter what we won't see Stewie on the court, so Meeseman suddenly becomes critical for the Lib.) [/QUOTE]