Ferry Avenue wrote:rzzzzz wrote:It’s fine to scrutinize mistakes and misses, but come one, our starters out scored their starters while our bench got crushed by their bench. Blame Morey for not doing better, while I blame Doc for leaning on the old geezers while not giving our young/athletic guys any kind of a chance to really contribute.
Right, but it took an uncharacteristic game by Niang for that to occur. He was 2 for 12 shooting and 2 for 10 from three. If he has merely a slightly below average game as opposed to a terribly below average one, they win.
If games hinge on bench play only to that degree (i.e., a single player makes the difference against stellar bench play by the other team), then bench play can't be very meaningful.
On top of that, teams play starters and bench players together throughout games, and so when a team's "bench" is actually playing is debatable. Certainly if teams were forced to remove all of their starters simultaneously and replace them with five bench players, benches would then become incredibly important.
Sixers starters 96 pts Nuggets 66pts
Sixers bench 15 pts. Nuggets 35pts
I dont expect that type of efficient production from the starter consistently and overly depending on a one dimensional Niang is just bad.
Imagine if the nuggets had Murray and Porter. They would of never been down that much to begin and their bench would of likely blew the game away.
