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Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2018, 12:38:18 PM »

Offline Phantom255x

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My biggest fear is this team gets absolutely run out of the building on Saturday Night on ABC @Golden State...  :o
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Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2018, 12:56:01 PM »

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Is it a coincidence that Tatum has been very poor during our streak? I don't think it is. We don't win without his early season contributions, he's not playing well and it is hurting us. We need him to figure it out or we will continue to struggle.
Agree with this 100%.  Unless Tatum is scoring what he scored in first couple months, we just don't have enough offensive firepower.  He was giving us consistent points earlier in the season.  We are relying on  guys like Smart and Rozier to score, and they can give you 15 points one game, and give you nothing in the next game.

Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2018, 01:15:18 PM »

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Is it a coincidence that Tatum has been very poor during our streak? I don't think it is. We don't win without his early season contributions, he's not playing well and it is hurting us. We need him to figure it out or we will continue to struggle.
Agree with this 100%.  Unless Tatum is scoring what he scored in first couple months, we just don't have enough offensive firepower.  He was giving us consistent points earlier in the season.  We are relying on  guys like Smart and Rozier to score, and they can give you 15 points one game, and give you nothing in the next game.

Those Jan splits :(

MonthPPGTS%
Oct14.0.631
Nov13.6.628
Dec14.6.657
Jan10.4.470

After 18 months with their Bigs, the Littles were: 46% less likely to use illegal drugs, 27% less likely to use alcohol, 52% less likely to skip school, 37% less likely to skip a class

Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2018, 01:30:29 PM »

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#1:  Trip to England
#2:  The break and time change brought out their fatigue from the heavy schedule and focus on
        defense went to pot.
#3    Back down to earth from win streak...a little too earthy due to 1 and 2.

Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2018, 02:52:02 PM »

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My biggest fear is this team gets absolutely run out of the building on Saturday Night on ABC @Golden State...  :o

Or that’ll be the game they snap out of it.
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Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2018, 03:05:09 PM »

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Team needs three things:

1)  Bench scoring
2)  One more piece of size
3)  Vet experience off the bench.




Would be nice if they got one piece that could fill all of this.   Two would work as well. 



Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2018, 03:47:29 PM »

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Our rebounding has dropped off. Which in turn our defense has looked worse. Brad needs to calm down with the small lineups for long periods of time. Last night we had no business going small against the Lakers at the end of the game. That cost us the game last night.

Bingo.

But the refs gave LA the game.
36 free throws for LA, 16 for us.
Lakers taking 3 steps without dribbling, no call.
The fix was in.
It was 36-10 in free throws. Even worse! Not to mention the blown lane violation.

Re: How do you explain Boston's recent malaise?
« Reply #22 on: January 24, 2018, 04:01:14 PM »

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A lot of guys playing selfish at the wrong times as well