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Message: [QUOTE="Basingstoke, post: 5295618, member: 13809"] Dallas (in addition to having no centers) has a "defense" completely lacking in cohesion. While they may get an individually good play by Paige, Arike or Dijonai, there is no sense of "team" in their defense (or offense too for that matter); they don't effectively rotate and no one ever seems to cover for a teammate whose opponent has them beaten. While, on offense, virtually everyone (besides PB) just stands around without cutting, and whenever certain people get the ball they'll make a kamikaze drive to the basket resulting in a charge, a missed shot or an intercepted pass because they've over-penetrated without a plan or sensing what's happening in the defense around them. And then there's Arike (current shooting woes aside), who is one player who will "set" a screen, but who believes that setting a screen should be just like a pulling guard in the NFL (at least 2 offense fouls last night, negating Paige buckets). I have a feeling that the team will be watching a lot of ugly video after last night... [/QUOTE]