Originally Posted by SLUFLYER
I'll concede the first 30 minutes. But they scored on every single possession in the last 9:38 of the game. Yes, they did get a game tying dunk on a sloppy turnover at half court, but the other 14 possessions of the last 10 minutes of the game were half court possessions where our guards couldn't move laterally to stop penetration and our bigs were too slow in their reads or help adjustments. Plus the 2 or 3 offensive rebounds that Davidson got that led to easy layups.
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For 34 minutes we still held a double digit lead. Then as the announcers pointed out, we stopped running the offense like we were trying not to lose, instead of playing to win. Then came some untimely turnovers and missed threes. The whole atmosphere changed. It was not just the defense that had done their job for 34 minutes, or more.
Certainly fatigue was setting in on both sides of the ball.