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Message: [QUOTE="Rage4CUSE, post: 2360385, member: 5358"] [URL="http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21190159/luke-walton-benches-los-angeles-lakers-starters-teaching-lesson-loss"]Lonzo's b-day gift? Benching in Lakers' loss[/URL] With 3 minutes and 42 seconds left in the game, Coach Walton benches his entire starting unit because on the previous possession they did not get on defense and gave up easy fast break points. Not only that he did it prior in the game with 4 minutes left in the 3rd quarter and did the same thing to his starting unit and pulled them for not getting back in transition defense. I gotta admit I find this to be great coaching. I don't believe I've ever seen this before by a coach, but admittedly I've only been watching basketball closely for about 8 years now. I will not be surprised if Walton can get this team into the playoffs as the 7th or 8th seed. [/QUOTE]