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Originally posted by Pioneer10!
Terrible both our point guards let us down at the end. Snow two terrible plays and McInnis missed a FT there at the end that could us back to a one possesion game.
Don't know why Sasha didn't see anytime at the end: he really played Sprewell well. When he was off, Latrel had a couple of big plays there
Well I guess what can you expect Lebron was clearly ill and Cleveland is built around him
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There were two bad substitutions tonight by Silas that heavily contributed to this loss IMO.
The first was when he put that awful lineup out there of Diop, Traylor, Harris, Snow, Gooden(?) in the 1st half. Minnesota went up 10 or 12 points almost immediately, Silas brought Bron/Z/Jmac back in and all the sudden it's cut back to 6. Silas cost the team at least 6 points in that stretch alone.
The second bad sub was the one that has been repeated for awhile now, leaving Snow in when teams are not even guarding him down the stretch. He literally didn't even hit the rim a couple of times, Sasha is adequate enough on defense that he should be out there when teams start to pack it in.
The Snow/Jmac lineup problem has to be resolved. Playing them both in the 4th is obviously not working out. Either let the matador run the point and deal with the PG penetration, or let Snow run the point and bring Sasha in to play the 2.
I almost get the feeling every time we play now that if we're not up at least 6 or 8 down the stretch, we aren't gonna win cause of the defensive strategy teams are consistently employing (i.e. leaving Snow)