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[QUOTE="OrlandoCuse, post: 5638576, member: 115"]
Red CLEARLY has no sense on how or when to substitute during the game. He seems to have defaulted to some predetermined “line change” sub pattern similar to hockey. He’ll make a wholesale change of 3 or 4 players at the same time, usually at predetermined times in the half. This is absolutely the worst thing he can do. There’s no good outcome from this sub pattern. You either disrupt the flow of a team playing well, and hope the subs maintain that flow. Typically, when we’re playing well this ends up with a drop off in play.

The other end of the coin is waiting too long if the team or players are playing poorly. There’s no ability sub out a bad performing player for another when he sticks to his line change.

He seems to stick to the line change sub patterns for the first 12 minutes of each half. My assumption is that he thinks this is keeping his best players on the floor together for the maximum amount of time while also maximizing their “freshness” (minimum fatigue).

This substitution strategy clearly isn’t working. It tanked today’s game after we got up 9 in the 2nd half. It lead to games being closer than they should after we got up big (Pitt). It will lead to far more losses than wins.

Why he doesn’t make individual substitutions based on who is playing well and who is not is beyond me. It’s like he’s trying to come up with his own method of substitution. It’s an utter failure.

There’s a ton of other things Red is bad at, but he’s astronomically bad at substitutions.
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