Souvlaki wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
That's gotta be about the dumbest thing I've seen posted here in awhile. The problem is not that the bench is getting too many minutes, it's that the starters are playing too many minutes when we have a large lead. By the time the lead is slipping away late in the fourth, Baron and the other starters are gassed. That's a bad rotation and one that relies too heavily on the starters.
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Yep...the key problem is Nelson's theme of riding the players when they go on offensive streaks...waring them out early and then Baron and Jackson having NOTHING in the take. Nelson is AFRAID of subbing prematurely....But he's blowing it.
Baron and the rest should have regular minutes regardless of the momentum in the first half. You don't lose or win games in the first half and he should fricken know that.
And to compound that..a smaller team puts out way more energy around the glass than a bigger team....
