With the game won, the second half lacked the intensity of the first and it was Sale who were next to score.
"In the first half we didn't play with the same defensive intensity we did in the second half and we didn't battle on the boards as well as we needed to, " interim coach P.
"We just didn't play two halves, didn't have any passion or energy or intensity the first half, " Rice said.
Challenged in the first half by a team that went 1-15 in WCC play this season, Gonzaga turned up the defensive intensity and opened the second half on a 19-5 run to seize momentum.
But on August 3rd new data showed that in the first half of the year, energy intensity nudged up by a mere 0.09% compared with the same period a year ago.
The second period was always going to struggle to live up to the intensity of the first and the half was a fully 15 minutes old before the first chance came for either side.
Yet the Dragons lost their way in the second half as Tony McGahan's men upped the intensity.
And the first-half performance against the Dragons will help keep the intensity high in training before they head to Franklin's Gardens for the Sunday showdown.
The intensity of a rip-roaring first half went up another notch with a thunderous attack through multiple phases, but Leinster's defence remained resolute, earning a penalty at its conclusion.
According to the automaker, laser lighting can produce a forward beam with an intensity a thousand times greater than conventional LEDs, but with half the energy consumption.
And that's just network television: Several of the friends whom I introduced to "Breaking Bad" chose not to watch the first half of the final season, preferring to get it later in one high-intensity dose.
Despite all the pre-match talk of the intensity of the teams' rivalry and the potential for fireworks, the first half was a relatively tame affair - no doubt at least partly a result of the steady rain.
They continued to dominate by playing with a ferocious intensity and with van Persie on the receiving end of some robust tackling, but the match turned near half-time.
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