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Originally Posted by Lor20
We did a few things beter than in game 1 (mostly bench play) but there are still 2 big things that have been issues for a long time.
1.)Why do we still play the 3 Guard Terry,Barea Kidd lineup?
we played it for like 6 minutes yesterday and our line was -13 with us getting outscored in 5 of the 6 stretches - the last one was even.
2.) Our interior defense is just too slow. 96 minutes without drawing a charge now and letting them get half their points in the paint (if you include the FT's which were almost all coming from fouls in the paint. WE let them shoot like 20 FT's in the first half - if we manage to play some D without fouling we'd be up by 15 by the end of the third.
Hollins, Bass and Damp again picked up 13 fouls (14 last game) and none of them was a hard one. If you are going to make them shoot freethrows at least make them earn it instead of basically having them go to the hoop and then walk to the stripe
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It looked to me that Damp was outside the restricted area on that one blocking foul, so it should have been called a charge.
But in general, the Denver bigs are really quick, and Dampier is just not mobile enough to keep up with them, like you said.
I thought Hollins might do a little better, but he wasn't a lot better. However, if Dampier and Hollins are performing about the same on defense, then Hollins has a lot more upside with the potential to alley-oop and/or swat shots.
Rebounding is another issue...our zone was working, but as is the problem with any zone, rebounds didn't really come. Second chance points were a KILLER.