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The lack of decent free throw shooting is what makes me genuinely pissed. There is simply no excuse for it. This team is supposed to do the 'fundamental things' best, and there is literally nothing in basketball more fundamental than making a blasted free throw.
Free throws, rebounding and turnovers...the most fundamental of all basketball skills...and they were all horrible last night.
The team members and the coaching staff should ALL be ashamed of themselves.
I know some folks say coaches aren't responsible for free throws, but if that is true, then they OUGHT to be responsible for them. This a characteristic of Pop's teams for years now - but hardly ever as universally bad as last night was.
The Pistons guards were nothing in the first half - it was all Drummond on the comeback from 18 down to 9 nine down. But still - being 9 points up at the beginning of the half and then losing at the last second on a combination of missed free throws, fouling the other team and not being able to inbound the damn ball. Pathetic.
This team does not look hungry to me at all. They look quite satisfied. And that includes Pop.
this ing team will never learn. Deserved loss.
