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Message: [QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1577278, member: 581"] I don't know that I'm particularly concerned with this squad and all the movable parts, but everyone is more or less doing that at the end of the day. Look at our FF run with Triche/MCW - we had to go to our bench late because of foul trouble and Cooney seemed none-to-ready to perform. Not saying if he played a few more minutes here or there it would have made a difference, but it might of. You never know I guess. Maybe if you give him those minutes we lose an extra game and get a crap seed...or a better seed. That stuff is too unknown. NBA coaches go with rotations all the time that I'm sure they think are simply brilliant. But the best of the best get it wrong too...The Knicks wouldn't play Chandler/Melo/Stoudemaire together for 3/4 of a year, then when they finally broke down and gave them a lot of run together, they weren't this walking disaster that everyone assured us they would be. They weren't the greatest show on Earth, but they were better with them 3 on the court than the other disastrous rotations they tried that season. 80% of the "Cooney should never sit" contingent assured us all endlessly that if Cooney went to the bench last year the team would quite literally self-destruct, and that no baskets would ever possibly be seen in Orange'ville because all of the defenders on the other team would then be free to shut us down...or something like that. Then against Pitt, he sat, we went on a 10-2 run. At the dome during the Bouie misspelling fiasco game (not sure of the opponent - maybe Pitt again), he was hurt, and players stepped up and scored a whole bunch of points. It happens. There is something to be said for just putting the players out there and letting them work through mistakes to progress and help the team. Joseph may very well be looking over his shoulder too much. It's not unthinkable. He didn't have that concern in the pre-season, but as games kick-in that count, the hook is so much quicker and with that he may simply be playing more tentative. He was firing shots off in the exhibitions like mad (and hitting them) - not so much now. Would TC be the player he is if he wasn't allowed to play through every mistake? Maybe. Who knows. I'm rambling. lol All that being said, the rotations seemed fine to me in Atlantis. Players seemed pretty fresh, and the moves were working. If it ain't broke - don't fix it. I would have given Howard some more run against Charlotte, but otherwise, seemed okay to me. [/QUOTE]

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