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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1302342, member: 581"]
It was somewhere around the 12 or 10 minute mark after he picked up his 4th foul.  He came out, we went on an 8-2 run, JB brought him back in inexplicably early considering how we were doing.  Which is why I question JB's reasoning for going with all 40 night after night.  That was the PERFECT situation to get him a couple minutes, 4 fouls, TONS of time left, we were in the midst of an 8-2 run, and up pops Cooney off the bench at the next stoppage in play.

Again, I think we need him out there most of the game too, I genuinely do, I just don't think we need to see him and Christmas laboring at times.  Those couple minutes haven't proven to be our undoing when they sit.

At the end of the day we are a defensive team.  Our offense isn't winning us games.  Patterson and Cooney are interchangeable on defense for the most part, so even if you swap those two out - what's the net loss?  Probably not much.  If you have a fresher Cooney at the end - maybe that helps the team overall.  God knows we seem to fall apart at the end of most games.  Poor execution, exhaustion, who knows how much any of it plays into it...but if you can limit one of those things, why not?

Christmas sat, the world didn't end.  Cooney can sit and the world doesn't end.  The numbers show us this is true (based on a small sample size, but that's all we got).
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