Hannah's defence has improved massively this season [which is not saying much], and he was locked in for his first stint on the floor and did well then, but he was off with the fairies when he came on in the second half and threw that ridiculous bounce pass...
Kai on the other hand battled well and tried hard all game. It looked like he was trying to fight through an issue with his right lower leg maybe. He was quite ginger on it after some early collisions and had trouble keeping his feet. He could have played maybe a couple of more minutes but was starting to look exposed.
We lost this particular game largely because our starting forwards gave us nothing on the boards. We were outrebounded by how many was it, seventeen?
Combined that with the symptoms shown all season down the stretch,
some slow/dumb wing defence
too much time spent bringing up the ball against pressure defence which never flows into any particular sets.
Not having that one player ready and willing to own that last shot of the game.
Are these problems that CJ has been unable able to fix, or is it our personal?
Likely a bit of both but we should find out next season. Teams are not going to stop pressuring us any time soon in crunch time.
I know Goorgian largely imposes a two bounce dribble limit on his players for any single possession, but most of our guards do not look like they even start to think of something until they have pounded the ball with three or four dribbles…