garrick wrote:King4Day wrote:I think we'll see Monty wait a bit longer before pulling the starters in the future. He shouldn't have had this issue but as we saw, both starters and bench had no answers for their runs and amped up defense.
Near the end, when Paul was bringing the ball up, he was hounded by Mitchell I think it was. Nobody came to set a screen and he barely got past midcourt. That is something Monty needs to talk to the team about. It happened throughout the playoffs last year and is such an easy thing to fix.
But as frustrating as it was, and as flustered as the team got (Book missing 2 FT's was concerning) we did hang on.
Having Ayton set screens should be a bit better than MGee or Crowder set screens, not sure what his injury status is but he better man up and get well soon.
That's the other thing we're forgetting. We're winning some tough games without DA. Including last night.