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This is why we lost game 5.

Throw out Kobe Bryant hitting a three immediately to tie the game at 76 to end the third quarter and listen to the next nine shot attempts by the Denver Nuggets. Kenyon Martin misses a 20-foot jumper, J.R. Smith misses a 26-foot three point jumper, J.R. Smith misses a 28-foot three point jumper, J.R. Smith misses a 29-foot three point jumper, Kenyon Martin misses a driving lay-up, Kenyon Martin misses an 8-foot jumper, Chauncey Billups misses a 27-foot three point jumper, Carmelo Anthony misses a 25-foot three point jumper, and Carmelo Anthony misses an 11-foot two point jumper.

Shot selection.  That's it.  That doesn't even include the turnovers we made.  We lost on 3 consecutive 3 point misses by JR, two bunnies by Kenyon, then 2 more 3's by Carmelo and Chauncey.

If you're counting, that's 0-5 from 3, and 0-4 from inside the arc over a 7+ minute span.  0-9, plus turnovers.

And that was it.

Denver has to realize that the 3 ball should NOT BE THEIR GAME ON THE ROAD!  I realize they were getting hacked, shoved and mangled in the paint, but the only way they were going to get back in was easy shot opportunities (and not giving and-1 after and-1 up, but that's another story) and they completely went the opposite direction.

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