(01-10-2016 11:22 AM)62Indian Wrote:  

(01-10-2016 10:40 AM)TribeInTheBurg Wrote:  This game felt close the whole way, even though they weren't within 10 for most of the second half, and we were up about 20 with 4-5 minutes to go. We had our starters in and Dixon hit a 3 with under 2 minutes to go against their second team. Did Coach Shaver not realize the score/time left?

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The biggest problem this team has had [in many games] is that they have played great and built up a big lead, and then have suffered a mental letdown/let up on the pressure which has allowed the other team to stage a comeback and even to defeat the Tribe. I think Tony wanted to keep "the pedal to the metal" so our guys would not think "the game was in the bag" and relax.

I was personally happy to see the Tribe keeping the first team on the floor so late - I would like to win all our games by 20 points or more!!!

With regard to holding on to leads, I completely agree. However, it seemed like we had our starters in after NE had subbed in their second/third team, and that can rub people the wrong way.

IIRC, last year NE left their starters in even though we had the game pretty much locked up, which led to Eatherton getting embarrassed by Dixon and pretending to be hurt.