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Originally Posted by Dirk's Knee
Collison suck? You guys are crazy. Collison's game is similar to Westbrook's in many ways. IMHO, we lost that game last night due to 1 and only 1 reason, RC benching Collison. Collison was having a very good game until RC benched him for the clear path foul. The only stats Mike James put up higher than Collison in ~8 minutes less play time is 3 point % (Collison only attempted one and missed) and turnovers (James' 3 vs Collison's 1). Collison had 6 assists, 3 steals, and shot 5 for 6 from the line as well.
The other huge factors were Kaman's typical poor defensive effort (fortunately very limited in minutes) and Dirk's miserable play for the majority of the game. If it wasn't for Vince Cater's uncharacteristically good game last night, we get slaughtered.
If we trade Kaman for another more defensively minded center (Okafor?) and keep Collison in the game, we will win games like this one all day.
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Offensive rebounding late (4 in last 9 minutes. Whoever had ibaka sure as hell were not getting it done) had more to do with it than collison.
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