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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1320163, member: 581"]
I really don't understand this argument.  You go to the bench....you try something knew.  Different combinations - you coach and make adjustments.

What massively talented weapons are we sitting if we go to the bench for a few minutes when they are playing like garbage?  So we bring in some different garbage for a minute.

G was absolutely atrocious for most of the game.  Joseph has been playing 30 minutes a game, and suddenly can't play PG for a minute in the first half?  It's all baffling.  He can throw the ball to the other team just as well as anyone else on this team.

Again, you must have watched enough basketball to see that subbing in inferior players sometimes pays dividends.  They don't start for a reason, EVERYONE gets that in spite of the non-stop effort to explain it, but why did Baye ever play?  Because from time to time he provided a spark.  Nobody knows why but his Junior year he was an absolute terror in the Big East tournament.

Cooney was HORRIBLE as a Frosh, but against G'Town, in that same tournament, provided a tremendous spark.  Why?  He had no business being on the court when you hold up in front of the people he was playing behind - yet look what happened.   happens in sports - these aren't all walk-ons and we have 5 scholarship players.

It happens.  Why the '40 minute'rs' insist that this has never happened in the history of basketball, or is some impossibility on this team because of how wide the gap is between the starters and our bench is ludicrous.  It really is.

This year - we just let it fly.  Maybe G gets hot, maybe he doesn't...but we seem to just let these guys struggle and struggle, and never pull them.  Sit them for a minute - maybe we catch a  little fire.
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