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Rescinded

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Aloha,

The NBA just rescinded Luka’s 2nd technical foul. Does little good now. I doubt they lets us play the last 8 minutes over😡

Mini 5er

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Crappy end to an otherwise awesome game. Too bad the refs ended up deciding they needed some attention. Flush and move on.

1) In the defense of the refs. We shot 17 more free throws -on their home court- and were only whistled for 15 fouls. Maybe ratchet the complaining down a little bit.
2) In defense of Luka. You can’t throw a superstar out for that. If you can’t see the player (as was the case) you can’t throw him out, you have to allow them to be who they are: elite competitors in the midst of an epic battle. That ejection changed everything.
3) Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. Just so very many giveaways, need to wrangle that issue or you can lose a playoff series real quick. LeBron, Luka and Austin combined for 13. Need to be better.
4) Control the defensive glass. If it weren’t for Vanderbilt (a big 8 offensive rebounds), the disparity in offensive rebounding would have been astronomical. As it was we still couldn’t box out to save our lives. Another season long issue rearing it’s head. Between the offensive rebounds and the turnovers they got 24 shots up than we did. Small wonder we lost.
5) Not enough D. OKC had a fairly easy breezy time scoring the ball. 50% shooting on far more attempts was more than enough to offset the free throw line disparity. Need to get more physical, make it a priority to keep teams off the glass and , in general, shore up the defense on ball screens.

Looks like Michael and I had it backwards, we both thought they would win last night and lose the first game. At any rate, need to buckle up and get ready for Dallas tonight.