jayu70 wrote:yes, I agree...more ball movement is better, but in this game I'd be more concerned with the 13 offensive rebounds we gave up particularly by Rose and Bullock who had 5 which lead to points than the assist numbers.Sactowndog wrote:jayu70 wrote:....and I mean they had 16 assists on the first half and 12 in the 2 half. A difference of 4 assists. That's what you're picking at? To break it down further, Assists by quarter: 9, 7, 7, 5.
And also consider in the 4th quarter, in the last 4 minutes or so we slowed the pace and played the clock.
I did watch the game and felt the ball movement slowed down some in the second half. At this point, we are talking between good basketball (which we have seen from the Hawks all year) and great basketball which gets you past Philly into the conference finals. To me this team can beat Philly if they step their game up and maintain ball movement like we saw in the beginning.
Interesting comment by Bogi in the athletic:
“As I said after the second game, I didn’t feel that we moved the ball well enough, and I was kind of shooting some quick jumpers instead of getting (into the) paint and finding guys,” Bogdanovic said. “We talked about it, we watched the video, and we got better. But you know, it’s just the one (game). So, next one. We can’t relax. We’re up 2-1, and we have to close the series.”
Game 3 was certainly better especially in the first half.