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Slowing approaching .500 aka mediocrity. Max over Cam or DLO? Rookie mistake, coach. Knecht shooting more than everyone? Rookie mistake, coach. No defense other than OKC missing shots? Rookie defense, coach. JJ better start learning fast or this will all come
crashing down. Hard. Need to learn the way of the NBA and it ain’t all fancy math and analytics. It’s trust, process, letting vets fail before playing rookies and there’s a reason for that. Fans and media folks have so very many opinions it starts to sound like knowledge.

It isn’t.

It’s sound and fury, signifying nothing. Nothing. It’s just opinion.

Maybe that 2ed scotch was one too many tonight but this game pissed me off almost as much as the Orlando loss because we made the same mistakes over and over again in quarters 1-4. That’s rookie ass head coaching or players not focusing. I’m not sure what’s worse at this point.

1) LeBron needs to be better or not have the ball in his hands in crunch time. Too many stupid, silly turnovers. It has to end now or this season’s mediocrity is on him as much as Rob and the rookie HC.

2) Too much Dalton, too many threes. We are an inside out team, so…I guess credit the elite Thunder defense into luring us into too many empty calorie FGA’s because we never got into our bread and butter tonight.

3) AD’s first vanishing act was more result of us over indulging in threes than him not showing up. Maybe Hartenstein should win DPOY…

4) Volume threes are Fool’s Gold. We defended well enough to win. We didn’t score inside enough to punish the Thunder defense and we’re not a good enough rebounding team to play that way. This team has a narrow path to victory and it’s not hard to figure out: paint points. That’s it. The rest falls into place when we dominate the paint. You’ll notice the Thunder happily conceded threes all game long and we happily obliged. Rookie head coach mistake.

5) Vets over rookies in crunch time. Why Max Christie was on the floor with under 3 minutes remaining and were down 5 will be a mystery to me for the rest of my life. It’s beyond defensible. The dude ain’t a lockdown defender, that’s Cam’s role.’The dude ain’t a bucket in the waiting, that’s DLO. And yet…there was Max Christie. Getting abused by SGA. Rookies.

Need to find some stone and fast. We’re quickly becoming playin fodder. Defense and paint points need to quickly become the focus.

Dalton Knecht as a starter

SGA 36 points, 15 in 4th. Thunder top Lakers 101-93

Weak.

Beat ourselves, again

Redick is intrigued by a new starting lineup with Vando at 4