GettinitDone wrote:DOT wrote:LFGK wrote:
those injuries weren't on Thibs though.
I'm not talking about injuries
I'm saying you're using a hypothetical scenario to explain your undying fanaticism of someone who has never been able to translate regular season success into postseason success
You guys are in here after every win talking like it proves how great of a coach Thibs is just like Randle stans after every good regular season game he had, despite the fact that we all know they're good in the regular season, it's just about the playoffs
We have a championship caliber starting 5. Anything less than a Conference finals would be a disappointment, I don't care if he goes 82-0 in the regular season.
Also remember Thibs was on the verge of being fired before he put Divo and IHart in SL, and before we made the OG trade.
The 2 guys he wouldn't have used rotting on the bench saved him.
Also buried Burks with DNPs for a 1+ month then when players dropped like flies he was forced to play him and immediately produced. The same Burks he was playing 40mpg/ couldn't take off the floor years ago.
I doubt Deuce really needed years of DNPs to become the good role player he is today. Deuce had been Deuce all this time, the difference is he gets minutes today.
Ball don't lie, Huk can block shots, CAN PASS to cutters or to outside shooters in high post/ even AS HE DRIVES TO THE RIM, isn't afraid to take shots and actually CAN MAKE SHOTS, he's far away better than Sims yet Sims stays ahead in rotation. I mean sure, if you wanna base on "experience" (tho you can hardly tell if today's Sims has improved at all from rookie Sims), you want Sims to be ahead in rotation, but to actually give 0 mins to Huk, how can ANY PLAYER (even prime MJ or prime LeBron) NOT SUCK with DNPs? The same Sims he wouldn't play when Precious is healthy, but when KAT is out he plays Sims STRAIGHT FROM MONTHS LONG DNPs to STARTING. This man has lost it. He's just not making substitutions because the players can't perform, but because HE IS LAZY DOING IT.
Our bench doesn't suck, they just don't get opportunities. I have no doubt actual good coaches like Daignault, Atkinson, Spo (just found a "good" bench player in Kel'el Ware, started him a few games ago, and this kid may now save the Heat franchise) would find minutes for Huk, Kolek (who can also play), and even Pac. Give them minutes first, and determine whether they can or can't play. How can anyone make determination a player sucks FROM DNPs?? Only **** like Thibs and his BLIND defenders do that !!
When it comes to BASIC HUMAN FATIGUE CONCEPT, you play a player 40 mins every 2 days, weeks/ months later he's not gonna run around any fresher than another player who plays 30-32 mins every 2 days.
I just can't with Thibs anymore... he's surely as smart as people around the L regard him to be, so it's IMPOSSIBLE for him not to understand basic human fatigue concept, the failure to keep our key players fresh in 4th qs of games, and when it matters at the end of season just comes to LAZINESS. Similar to a good chef who can cook and understands the concept of hygiene but is just TOO LAZY/ CAN'T BE BOTHERED to clean his own station, it's left uncleaned for days/ weeks/ months until hygiene starts affecting the quality of the very food he serves. Thibs would rather spend all those secs thinking about/ doing subs yelling on the sidelines.
I have no doubt had we had a coach who made use of our bench we would've won those games we should've when it was clear we didn't have legs in the 4th (the 2 Bulls games, the road Jazz game, Magic game without Paolo/Wagner, even the road Thunder game), and we could be ahead of the Celtics today, maybe only 1-2 GB of the Cavs instead of currently 6.5 GB.
