brownindians85
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The stat sheet has got to be lying because it felt like each team had 20 turnovers last night. Baseline Bobby gets handsy on defense, and even though I think he's a good defender and decent rebounder, other than Richmond, he's hurt us in the majority of the last 6 or 7 games. I hate to see it because the kid obviously wants to succeed. And I don't know how you can say Vasquez has gone backwards. He has a short leash and everyone is comparing him to his RU game which was a statistical outlier. After the initial 2nd half run was squandered, Vasquez came back in and the team immediately pulled back to even. He provides something out there, and we don't have terrible bench. That's a bit of an overreaction.
Last night was a reversion to November Bonnies, too many quick triggers, and not valuing the basketball. If even 2 or 3 of their shots beyond the arc fall it's a completely different game - shooting fixes so much. But on nights you don't have it, go to your bread and butter, which is Shoon. The kid's having a career night and Winston and Dom want to take 23 footers when they've both shown they are more than capable at driving to the hoop. Lofton's runner at the end, while I like him taking that shot, and he's good at that shot, he's got to have the clock and spatial awareness to see he drew 3 defenders and Shoon was right there for the dump off. It would have capped a night for sure, and felt like a steal with very sub-par execution. I think we just ran out of our "get outta jail free" cards last night. Sometimes you lose. And that one just hurts.
Last night was a reversion to November Bonnies, too many quick triggers, and not valuing the basketball. If even 2 or 3 of their shots beyond the arc fall it's a completely different game - shooting fixes so much. But on nights you don't have it, go to your bread and butter, which is Shoon. The kid's having a career night and Winston and Dom want to take 23 footers when they've both shown they are more than capable at driving to the hoop. Lofton's runner at the end, while I like him taking that shot, and he's good at that shot, he's got to have the clock and spatial awareness to see he drew 3 defenders and Shoon was right there for the dump off. It would have capped a night for sure, and felt like a steal with very sub-par execution. I think we just ran out of our "get outta jail free" cards last night. Sometimes you lose. And that one just hurts.