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So many mental lapses with a 5-8 point lead. Every single time they built it up the whole team just went space cadet. 2 times the Suns go down AFTER a made basket and get a free layup. Paul and Booker both. Then we start fumbling the ball away and mentally collapsing on the offensive end.

Another game where we can't get KP going in the 4th. It HAS to be a point of emphasis going forward. Having Luka score and generate everything with the spacing all fvcked up is not sustainable vs good teams.

Honestly if we didn't have two separate spans of huge lapse of concentration where the lead was eaten up, we finish this one too. But they can learn from this one that the time to grind is when you've built some cushion. Contenders keep focus and make other teams really earn it. During those 2 runs that quickly evaporated the leads, we were not diligent on preventing mismatches. We let KP end up on CP3 waaaay too easily. Along with other mental lapses. THJ and Brunson losing their assignment while helping out for no reason and getting caught in no man's land was also tough.

This game went almost exactly like I thought it would tbh. But Kidd is smart, he will point out exactly where things are falling apart.