Galloisdaman wrote:Not everything in life is all or nothing. My comments about the games they had fatigue and illness this season have nothing to do with how many minutes Doc played some players in previous seasons. I'm not defending Doc for anything in previous seasons. Just agreeing with a previous post regarding a few specific games when the team had no legs or were short handed this season. On any given night a first place club can lose to a last place club largely because of fatigue.
As far as staying neutral I have my own bias. We all have bias but just like any judge in any court room to be fair we have to try to look past our own bias when evaluating a situation. I have mentioned a few things I would like to see Doc do differently many times. I don't think that makes me a Doc hater anymore than a Doc apologist. I'm just a guy leaning back in my computer chair giving my opinion. That is what a sports message-board is about. Let me put it to you this way. Wouldn't this board be boring for you if everyone just agreed with everything you said? The great thing about the board is you have multiple opinions. If everyone agreed with me why would I even read the board? I could just talk to myself.
You're missing the point. Of course, any team can lose on any given night due to fatigue. That's just obvious and a no-brainer, but when a coach makes a habit of having his players play too much and relying on his star players which lead to regularly losing due to fatigue, like say, for a stretch that extended over 2 weeks, then there's something wrong with his rotation and roster management, especially with the depth available to him. We've lost important postseason games and series under Doc's watch because his star players ran out of gas. If we keep doing the same things without making adjustments then it's a colossal waste of time and resources.
I've already stated in the past that I'm not interested in a hive-mind or homogeneous board. Variety is the spice of life, so I definitely welcome different opinions as long as they are well thought out and backed up my good support. Accepting an opinion merely because it's different sets a low bar and, like I've pointed out, has led to the spread of an idiocracy where "flat Earth" has grown among the population as a belief and anti-vaccination is now a movement that has actually brought back diseases that were once wiped out. Bad takes, especially those repeated without respectable support, only lead to lowering the quality of sports discussion, not enhancing it.
