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[QUOTE="reedny, post: 2235738, member: 1423"]
Most of this is well reasoned, but again, there's little question that depth, beef and experience suffered with the losses of 3 front line players. You mentioned that the losses allowed the staff to bring in players that should have played anyway? Hmmm ... not so sure. TR's minutes were, by JB's own admission, inflated because of lack of depth (we played 4/5 with him in the lineup). To me, TT was a far greater disaster than Chukwu -- even though you're right that Chukwu was lost at times (at least he was closer to the rim than 18 feet and could rebound). TT was lost ALL the time on defense, and he's pretty clearly a stretch 4 like Lydon who was playing out of position. It's no surprise that, without DC2/Chukwu to help with rebounding, we got massacred on the glass against the big boys (all those misses from our jump shots got away). Our whole front line had to rotate one slot out of position.

Overall, I disagree about the effect of all the front line losses (which was significant) -- although as usual you make the argument better than others.

[By Edit - Off topic -- please post a grilling recipe' I can use tomorrow. ;)]
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