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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 3692720, member: 6520"]
Appreciate the reply. I certainly don't think that JB is above criticism - I totally understand the frustration that you and some other folks have with the short rotation that JB has employed over the last several years. There's plenty of times that I agree with you and wish that JB would go to the bench sooner, or regularly go deeper than 6.5/7 players on most nights.

I think it's fair to come away from last night's game with criticism like "JB should have found a way to get Braswell more minutes" or "JB should have gotten Woody into the game". But the flip side of that coin is that JB did run out some other lineups that performed pretty darn well. The Kadary/Joe/Buddy trio played 16:30 together last night - and they played amazingly well together - +20 for the night! Isn't it just as fair to come away from last night's game thinking "JB did a nice job with the lineups, that 3 guard rotation might help us down the road". Or wouldn't it be fair to observe "It was awesome that JB got 10 minutes of action last night with Marek at the 4 and Jesse at the 5"? That's another lineup that has hardly been seen to this point in the season, but might be needed (especially if Quincy gets into foul trouble). By the way, that duo was +11 in their 10 minutes on the court together.

The way that every thread (including this one) quickly devolves into "Buddy plays too much" is a little bid weird to me. There were plenty of good things to take away from last night. Would be nice if some folks were willing to talk about it a little bit more.
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