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As long as Caron attacks, we'll be okay on offense. If he does his sidestep dribble shot, troubles.

Tonight, he would penetrate and usually got a close bucket or drew contact. A couple times he just caught and shoot, more so in the second half, but was more decisive about his shot than I've seen him all series long. In fact, he was almost hyper-aggressive (only one assist and he got a little hard headed on two breakaways). His confidence is up at home. Hopefully, it carries over to San Antonio.

Defensively, Marion played the most minutes he's played in a game. He just locks Manu the crap down. He's slowed down Durant, Bryant and Melo? What's a crook-nosed Manu?

He was major but so was Haywood. He was wrecking havoc with the fouls on their bigs, which also loosened up the middle and offensive glass for us, and turned away 4 shots while playing big stretches against TD without fouling. A game.

JJB/Kidd did their thing to drive the break and rotate the ball. 11 assists combined. Kidd with his all around game 10/7/7/2 with only one turnover. JJB was sloppy (5 TOs) but helped keep the in the paint game going when CB went out.

Dirk got to lay low a bit. He got a bit flustered at the end of the second quarter but kept going to the hole. I thought he also took advantage of his one-on-ones appropriately and crashed the boards well in the first quarter.

JET and Najera were role players tonight.

I thought Rick made a big gamble in the third quarter when he played all the starters down into the four minute mark or so. At some point, Jason had played a possible 32 of 35 minutes. Ballsy, Rick. Respect, Ironman#2. If the lead had whittled to say 12, we would've been done for in the fourth but the gamble paid off and the blowout was secured during that stretch.

Can't wait for Thursday!