scottiepippen1994
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We're just playing completely awful, you can tell Derrick's injury really killed the mood of the team. Luol has been playing great since then and Taj has been really good but everyone else has been average/below average. Team defense has also been pretty bad. What sucks is that at this rate we can blow the entire year, have a losing record, and still wind up as high as the 4th seed.
What I got most out of that game is that Luol Deng is not your closer. He wouldn't be a closer on a high school team. From the end of regulation to the loss they must have given him the ball to get a basket they needed 15 times and he didn't get more than 2. Then he goes and misses FTs. He's too tall making the ball travel way too far to dibble drive to the basket when the defense is aware he's going to do it and collapses to the lane. Everybody on the pelicans reached in to stop his play short of the rim.
And does Carlos Boozer go take a shower at the end of the 3rd quarter because it seems Thibs is unwilling to put him back in the game, even though the offense is laboring to score. That was just plain bad.
If Taj is playing well, and he was last night, Boozer's night is pretty much done.