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Yes. We’ve finally heard it all from Doc Rivers this year, and this latest piece of brilliance is the last thing you want to hear coming from your coach:
“We played like a high school team at times.”
-Doc Rivers, after the loss to Houston...
As a basketball fan, it’s always more fun and exciting to attend tightly contested games that come down to the stretch. But two close games in two nights with two losses might be a little bit too much for this blogger.
From the plebe’s section up top, I had a great view of all of our offensive and defensive deficiencies.
Unfortunately, they were plentiful throughout both evenings. Five things stuck out to me from both losses (along with many, many other losses against above-.500 teams this year): we can’t finish quarters strong, we are missing defensive rotations when the opponent’s ball movement is quick/crisp, we can’t close out on long-balls, we can’t rebound in the stretch, and we can’t compose ourselves to recover when teams break our flow/tempo in the game.
Shall we?
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