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Originally Posted by KhalDrogo
Inbounded the ball with 20 seconds left and had the shot off with 15 seconds left. They did exactly what you said they should have. Long rebound with 12 seconds. Took some time to get past the defense and find the open man. Find on the video where they had a chance to take an acceptable shot before that.
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The first shot was fine. Got a good matchup with Claxton, took the step back at left hash where Luka wants it. The issue we had was with the second shot taking all 14 seconds (not 12, as shown below)
Claxton gets himself way out of position watching the shot, so when KP gets it in the corner he panics and runs to the ball. When KP passes to Luka he’s wide open, and even has an extra second due to Powell’s screen. Luka completely screwed this up by driving middle, probably just and instinctual thing to attack when you have a defender out of position and sprinting towards you.
As soon as he gets in the paint, he realizes “oh sh*t we need 3” and kicks to KP, but Brown knows the situation and didn’t help middle so KP has no shot.
KP at least tried to immediately dump back to Luka who for some reason tries to do a dribble hand off back to KP… then ends up getting it back, but this whole awkward exchange was what we were commenting on.
Luka could have probably crossed left here with 5 seconds left and taken the same shot as earlier, but the pass to THJ and the shot they got were fine and probably the correct basketball play
Not bad for someone who was apparently just box score watching