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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 4514379, member: 534"] [LIST=1] [*]Newton seems to find a way to draw an early charge pretty often. He's probably done it 5 or 6 tmes this year. [*]We won the other night by limiting our threes. Last night, we started the game firing away willy nilly from deep. [*]It's time for Hurley to put JoeyC on a VERY short leash. If he doesn't make a positive play in 2 minutes when he gets in, he's got to be taken out, and not see hardwood again until a similar stint in the 2nd half. His defensive liabilities are too severe to play him if he's not scoring at will. [*]Be that as it may, he was only a tiny sliver of our problems last night. [*]Newton was our best performer in the first half, with 8 points and our ONLY two assists of the first half. But he also had two fouls and two turnovers in the half. [*]In the first half, it seemed like the entire team forgot how to play defense. And how to put the ball in the hole. [*]Second half started off just as bad. Maybe worse. But about 3 minutes in, the Huskies suddenly remembered how to defend and how to shoot. 5 minutes later, a 16 point hole was down to 2. [*]But 3 minutes later, it was back to 11. [*]And then back to 1. And back to double digits. And so on. [I]Déjà vu [/I]all over again? [*]Clingan needs to practice foul shooting about 4 hours a day. He gets fouled quite a bit, and over the course of his career, that will only increase. When a guy who shoots 70% from the field struggles to hit 50% from the foul line, fouling him is sound defense. [*]Seemed like everyone in a home uniform other than Newton, 2nd half Hawkins and a somewhat lesser extent Sanogo, had a bad game. [*]I'm encouraged by the fact that Sanogo had 4 assists to go with his 11 points and 9 boards. He may be working his way out of his black hole tendencies. [*]If we had played as well for 10 minutes in the first half as we did in the 2nd half, we'd have won by double digits. But we didn't. And that's troubling. [*]I suspect that whole fiasco with what amounted to a 10 minute break in action had nothing to do with Miller not realizing that Freemantle had fouled out. He was buying time for the 6 remaining players that actually played to get some rest. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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