Hull looked anything but the league's highest try-scorers going into the game in a performance littered with handling errors and poor decisions with ball in hand.

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But it couldn't fix the Celtics' shooting and didn't really help much with the ball handling, as Terry had his dribble taken right away from him on one third-quarter possession when Boston briefly looked ready to get back into it.

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In November, when the Knicks were the league's hottest team, Kidd made Woodson look like a genius for effectively turning him into a shooting guard, with less ball-handling responsibility.

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That added ball-handling responsibility coincided with his 1-of-7 shooting over that span (and came right after he'd shot 5-of-7 in the first quarter, when he only initiated the team's offense once).

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Through its first two games here, England has passed the ball with all the calmness and composure of someone handling a live hand grenade.

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The deadlock was finally broken on 21 minutes and it was appropriate that the try came from a handling error, Hansen pouncing on a loose ball after Tigers winger Kirk Dixon failed to deal with Thomas Leuluai's towering kick to the corner.

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