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Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST

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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#101 » by Mr Peanut » Sun Dec 3, 2023 9:09 am

We showed promising signs of breaking this horrific streak, but our 4th quarter turnovers and poor shooting sealed our fate once again.

Cade had 11 assists to 1 turnover which was nice to see. And Killian has actually looked decent in his past two starts, can he sustain it? Duren was playing like he did in our first week before he went down with his ankle injury.

I think the situation will be much better once we get a win and break this streak because surely at this stage it is getting in the players' heads and leading to a mental block. Having Bojan back should help.
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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#102 » by MortSahlfan » Sun Dec 3, 2023 10:35 am

It was nice seeing Bojan back, but too bad we couldn't pull off the win... The defense was really good early on and it led to nice offense.
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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#103 » by Kalamazoo317 » Sun Dec 3, 2023 1:39 pm

We were at least a lot more enjoyable to watch this game. I can tolerate the losing quite a bit more if we're fun to watch and it looks like some of our young players are coming along well. Great game by Cade especially and having Bojan back was a breath of fresh air.

Thompson seems like he's hitting a bit of a rookie wall after his strong start. I'm sure the face fracture and moving to the bench doesn't help. But he had a couple of bad turnovers in the fourth that really hurt us. Livers as well.

It was nice to see the two man game of Cade and Duren looking nasty again in the first half. Not sure what teams are doing to adjust to that and take it away, but we need to have a better counterpunch available when they do as our offense tends to peter out too much in the fourth, even with Bojan back (so nice to have someone who can make their own offense and just hit tough shots like Bogie does!). We also need to figure out how to involve Ivey a bit more in the halfcourt offense. It was nice seeing him out there with the starters, though. And it didn't seem like lineups with him and Bojan together were defensively abysmal, which is promising.
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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#104 » by whitehops » Sun Dec 3, 2023 2:08 pm

sucks we lost but we were competitive pretty much the entire game. really glad bojan is back! you can immediately tell the difference even having one more player that can play makes.
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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#105 » by Kalamazoo317 » Sun Dec 3, 2023 2:48 pm

whitehops wrote:sucks we lost but we were competitive pretty much the entire game. really glad bojan is back! you can immediately tell the difference even having one more player that can play makes.


Not to mention he has true gravity as a shooter. Teams either have to take him seriously and run out on him (giving everyone else more space) or he's going to make them pay.
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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#106 » by flow » Sun Dec 3, 2023 3:25 pm

ElectricMayhem wrote:Duren continuing to show he's Andre Drummond with a motor.


Drummond with a motor would still be bad. Duren is more than that.

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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#107 » by ComboGuardCity » Sun Dec 3, 2023 8:55 pm

flow wrote:
ElectricMayhem wrote:Duren continuing to show he's Andre Drummond with a motor.


Drummond with a motor would still be bad. Duren is more than that.

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Drummond with a good for Drummond motor was an all star. Literally.
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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#108 » by flow » Sun Dec 3, 2023 10:37 pm

ComboGuardCity wrote:
flow wrote:
ElectricMayhem wrote:Duren continuing to show he's Andre Drummond with a motor.


Drummond with a motor would still be bad. Duren is more than that.

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Drummond with a good for Drummond motor was an all star. Literally.


Could care less that he somehow made all star games for his deceptive stats. He sucked at basketball.

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Re: Game 20: DET (2-17) vs. CLE (10-9) - 7 PM EST 

Post#109 » by Canadafan » Sun Dec 3, 2023 11:41 pm

flow wrote:
ComboGuardCity wrote:
flow wrote:
Drummond with a motor would still be bad. Duren is more than that.

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Drummond with a good for Drummond motor was an all star. Literally.


Could care less that he somehow made all star games for his deceptive stats. He sucked at basketball.

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He sucked soooooo bad. Horrible player. Zero coordination

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