Well what I can say is both teams looked a step better tonight then they were last night. There was no Maric sadly.. he was rested and there wasnt a whole lot of neilsen either. Overall we were highly competitive during the whole game and at the end when it got to 12 out and was looking like it was going to streamroll out of control we took it back to 6.
My main gripe with our team is... FINNISHING!!!!... I dont see whats so hard about hitting shots next to the ring for our guys, they do all the good wokr to get there, they get it, and then they throw up something kind of awkward looking its very frustrating. BAynes is the absolute worst for that.. I do respect the fact that he seems to know it and attempts to dunbk to cancel the problem out but his touch around the ring is really quite bad and he doesnt seem to have a very high Basketball IQ at all.
Bewley was solid, Ingles was good, POatty hit some good shots but did suffer from his usual brain explosions.. Barlow was surprisingly accurate with his shot today.. Our rebounding was generally better. Its a shame to lose to them again. it really was looking like we would take this one mid way through the 3rd... I think everyone was expecting blow outs in these games and it dikdnt happen which shows the teams improved because ive seen pre-tourney games between spain about 2 years ago where we lost by 18 and 30 respectively and didnt even look anywhere near in the same realm as them and in the games vs spain we havent been outclassed at all.. and really thoes games couldve gone either way. I do think the Olympics look promising for us especially with the re emergence of newley but we need to continue to improve, there are still brain farts and we still have to deal with baynes inability to hit basic inside shots!
