I think UTA did not want #3.
They're a great road team and they must have thought being an underdog is better for this young team. Finish #3 and you're favorites. If you lose you kind of failed. That'd put a lot of pressure on their inexperienced squad.
Coach Q's rotations were rather weird and I don't remember him giving up and benching the starters so early. Also in his postgame interview after the GSW game he said something along the lines "fans want HCA but it's the same to us, you get back to home anyway"
Winning the rebounding battle is going to be critical in this opening series. We have to keep Adams off of the offensive glass and limit OKC to only one shot per possession. If we can do that, play Jazz defense, and knock down a good percentage of our shots we should win this series.
Hopefully Billy Donovan hasn't watched the couple of teams that play their bigs all the way back defensively and have given us the most trouble. I wouldn't expect so, he's not too bright.
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