Dat2U wrote:Saqs wrote:Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:When Beal struggled their was an opportunity for Brooks to look deep down his bench at McClellan or Burke or Satoransky. Just steal five minutes or as long as they compete.
Beal could have reset.
This coach isn't maximizing the Wizards talent.
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10000 times this.
You've got to be kidding. Your blaming a coach for not throwing bench warmers into the game? Guys who have proven they aren't ready for prime time? And your bashing the coach for not using them in the 2nd round of the playoffs? That makes zero sense. Brooks is simply going with the cards he was dealt. Have folks suddenly forgotten how Burke couldn't handle ball pressure at all early this season? And we want to throw him against Bradley & Smart? Really? You want to throw an undrafted rookie that's barely played in months into the national spotlight? You think guys can easily adjust to that? I'm at loss for words.
I can understand criticizing strategy but there is no freaking talent to be maximized here. You can't cook chopped liver and expect it to taste like a porterhouse steak. You force Burke or Sato at PG and you'd likely get bad results if not worse than what Jennings did. You throw McClellan In and he's probably overwhelmed by the situation. I have hope for Sato but not as a PG. He showed what he couldn't do early on but some on here have apparently forgotten that.
http://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/2594885/sheldon-mcclellan
Or, he's not. 4/12 he wasn't. Neither was Burke in the same game.
The principle is synergy. Play random dudes to bring good energy. Don't assume depth chart is some caste system where only certain guys can play. Everybody on the team is in the NBA, including Ochefu.
You're being extreme here in assuming we're saying role player logs heavy minutes and wins game for Wizards. NOT what I'm saying at all. I'm saying Boston keeps walking down the same group of sorry bench players and this coach is as close minded as you are.