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Originally Posted by FreshPrince22 ohh please, don't blame Flip for every freaking loss on the schedule. Hindsight is 20/20. You can't predict that we are going to go on a huge drought after going on an offensive tear in the first quarter. And you say that Flip should have kept the bench in longer in the 2nd quarter, but the fact is that the bench was in when our 14 point lead dropped to about 2 points. Arroyo is not capable of running the offense, and he brings down the entire team with him. It's not Flip's fault that Arroyo HAS to play at least SOME time (unless you want Chauncey play 48 minutes, or 53 in this case). You know Flip sees it because he has made a habit of playing Chauncey they entire 2nd half. And frankly, I don't blame him. If he puts in Arroyo and we blow the lead he gets blamed for it anyways, so he has to take the chance on keeping Chauncey in.
Flip also didn't force Sheed to get absolutely dominated on the boards by Memo. The offensive glass was where this game ended. That's an effort thing from the entire team. |
That scoring drought was Evans not knowing how to play the game, and Flip trying his best to change that. He tried to get Evans involved in the ball handling, and all it did was use up clock, giving us bad shots. No way was that Arroyo's decision. It was the coach putting in plays involving Evans.
We lost 4 points of our lead with Evans in. But worse, we went from the ball flying all over the place, and players moving well without the ball, to no offensive flow at all with Evans in. Evans killed a good thing.
Coach took Evans out, and Arroyo, Delfino, and Dyess then held their own for a few minutes. The lead did not change while these three played without Evans. And the offense was clicking just fine too. Why coach took Delfino out at that point I just don't know. Why mess with a bench that is working for you.
After Delfino went out, the lead went back up to 9. Six minutes to go in the 2nd quarter, and we had a nine point lead. Which means that from the time Evans came in, with us having an 11 point lead, until that point, we had lost 2 points from the play of the bench.
At that time, Kirilenko made a couple of outstanding long range shots. In a minute, one stinking minute, the lead dropped from 9 to 2. So basically, by your argument above, about losing the lead, you can't say the bench did bad at all except for that one minute of play.
And that one minute my friend, had nothing to do with Arroyo's play. Arroyo does not guard Kirilenko last I checked, and Arroyo did absolutely nothing wrong during that one minute.