re: We blew so many possesions down the stretch.

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Gray single handedly lost that game.

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I'm assuming this is sarcasm. He was relatively quiet in this game, which is a huge improvement. The inbounds fiasco with a minute left wasn't his fault. The strategy was apparently for him to get the inbounds pass and drive to the basket and shoot over a 7-foot shotblocker. Why anyone thought this had a chance of working, I have no idea, but Gray was apparently just doing what the coaches told him to do. Blame Jones for that. He kept the turnovers down and, other than a couple of unwise drives into the lane and getting his shot blocked and maybe a couple of ill-advised 3-point attemps early in the shot clock when we needed to burn time and get a good shot, he really didn't hurt us that badly tonight. Patterson was much better overall than Gray has been, but took some really bad shots and wasted some possessions for us.

Overall tonight, you can't be anything but pleased with the effort of the team (they played better defense than they have all season, IMO), but as usual, the players got no help whatsoever from the coaching staff.