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Mitchell was particularly incensed with the botched fast-break opportunities. Jose Calderon, Jamario Moon and Chris Bosh had a three-on-one midway through the fourth quarter that wound up in a Raptors turnover.
“The reason we turn the ball over is we have our three guys within a space where they can all reach out and touch each other,” Mitchell fumed.
“Since grade school, you are taught to get out wide, put pressure on the defence, make the guy stop the ball, pass the ball and get a layup. We run straight down the court. Until we clean up things like that, and get our proper spacing, one guy can guard three.”
Outside of Kris Humphries and Moon, Mitchell didn’t have much nice to say about anyone. Humphries had 14 rebounds, five of them on offence, while Moon had 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting in his second start of the year. Moon also was matched up against Andrei Kirilenko and held the rangy Jazz forward to eight points on 1-of-6 shooting.
“We count on those guys to give us energy and to give us minutes,” Mitchell said of Humphries and Moon, “but not to win the basketball game.”
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