[zaga_fan]

But anyway...

The Lions don't have anything to hang their heads about.
They fought hard and the reason they lost this game was simply missed shots.
Either FTs or FGs... they missed a lot of shots that cost them this one.
To even get this down to a two possession game was a big feat in the last minutes.

Thompson hit a lot of big FTs at the end of this one and had to do the ball-handling (what little bit he got to do) with Hazard's two primary dribblers sidelined with 5 fouls.

I hope Rod sticks around for a while. Cordia has the team to compete and I'm not going to say that he can't coach, because he proved against Perry that he had scouted them and set up a good gameplan for them, but I will say that as much as your players have to grow your coach has to grow too and he has some room for improvement. Sticking around here he'll have the opportunity to learn and grow a lot.