The King crowns Raps
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The Raptors shot 49%, but were killed again on the boards, 47-28. Cleveland pulled in 13 offensive rebounds.
“The offensive rebounds hurt us, and that’s something we talked about,” said head coach Sam Mitchell, who still is tied with Lenny Wilkens for most wins by a Raptors head coach with 113. “But some of them (rebounds) were just weird bounces. A couple went over our guys’ heads. When teams shoot 30 three-point shots, you know there are going to be some long rebounds.”
I’m not even going to touch this one.
Okay, I will. If we “can’t teach defense” than what do you think management’s philosophy on rebounding is?
For the love of Pete [saying is possibly an allusion to Pistol Pete Merrovich (sp) who pretty much invented lateral defensive movement].