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2579146, Best defensive game of the year
Posted by LA2Philly, Mon Nov-28-16 12:01 AM
Part of why I say that is because after a sloppy 1st in which we were terrible on weak-side tagging (non-existent to start the game resulting in Dwight having 11 points in the first 6 mins...and then having multiple people commit resulting in easy cross court passes for wide open set 3's, Maskala in particular) and not using our feet and chest...we responded by only allowing 62 the rest of the game (if you want to be detailed, only 52 in non-garbage time because at 102-84 Coach Bud put in the 5 man trash team including the one and only Ryan Kelly, sans man-bun) with hands down our most consistent, disciplined, and aware team performance of the year...all 5 working together to tag and rotate and then making multiple efforts to run shooters off and close down lanes while cheating off some of Atl's weaker shooters (Sefelosha in particular).

Luke said we didn't play hard AND smart last game...tonight we certainly corrected that with our usual high level of effort complemented by our smartest game yet, a blowout is the result. Great result and more importantly how we got the result, to head into the roadie. Hopefully it kickstarts us defensively.