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Originally Posted by futuristxen
Maybe the answer is to play Lebron at the 4 with Gooden out. Lebron's a better rebounder than Ira. I think Lebron has to look to be super aggressive on the defensive backboards with our frontline gone. He was stuck waiting for our bigs to get a lot of rebounds and it just wasn't happening.
Though I think Z was really bothered by Yao's length, and it contributed to his overall poor play tonight. He was just off on the rebounding.
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Subtle way the lack of bigs cost us. Lebron was definitely shading downlow more then usual to get boards and protect the interior: this led to Battier getting some easy looks