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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 58317, member: 285"]
I still think the Brandon Triche freeze out is a Dewitt urban legend.     It hasn't quite reached the status of what they do with cats over in Solvay, but it's getting there.

If JB felt that Triche was being frozen out don't you think that there would have been a significant shake up in the lineup to readjust Scoop and Waiters' thinking.  No one wants to win more than Jim, if he thought that was occurring on the court I would expect him to address it, this isn't playground basketball.     For them to be freezing him out they would have to have consciously and repeatedly be making a decision not to pass to him and instead passing to a lesser option.

I suspect JB would not agree, that what you think is a freeze out, is in fact a situation where BT was (i) open, (ii) in a better position than others to score the ball, (iii) capable of scoring the ball from that position [B]and[/B] (iv) Waiters and Scoop were intentionally not passing him the ball......     Just because Brandon may have been waiving his arms doesn't mean he was open, the best option, or in a position relative to the ball handler that the ball could be delivered to him.    And by the way BT had a pretty lousy start to the season last year so if he wasn't getting the ball that might have had something to do with his teammates thinking there were better options available also.
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