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Originally posted by <b>BCH</b>!
Jeffries had 8 boards. Good but not stellar. Drob and Rad were hitting their open jumpers, which would have been even more proliferate with haywood in the game. There was a sequence when the Sonics outhustled the Wizards for some offensive rebounds, but those 2 possessions are nothing to compare with what they would have done in extended time against Haywood and Kwame last night.

The Sonics were not penetrating and scoring. They were not beating us on the low post. They were shooting the lights out on the perimeter. Collins had our best and most experienced guys on the floor, and they were still doing it. Playing haywood would not have solved this, and would have complicated our rotations even more as he would be pulled out onto the wing.

I don't see how Haywood wouldn't have been able to cover Drob he has no footspeed and Hayood could have watched him and in fact Drb made a clutch jumper that Haywoods length might have bothered more than MJ's at the time, no they weren't killing in the paint but Lewis especially at the end got catche's and turned towards the baskets for lay-ups in the 4th quarter, and easy floating shots across the lane. if Haywoods there it forces those shots out further where the perimetrer defense could have been more agressive. I thought the thing that complicated the rotations were the guards and JJ instead of fight through the pick and funneling GP to the paint they chose to trap him leaving the shooters in the corners, and then later they chose to switch it having JJ on GP and a smaller Russ on Lewis, with Drob on the other side of the floor Haywood if they funneled GP inside to him then he could have contested a shot as opposed to giving the Sonics the match-ups they wanted with Russell on Lewis.

Dantley talked about this after the game the use of small ball and how it may have hurt the team I don't always agree with his stuff but he made a good point the one I thought about while watching the game.