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Originally Posted by mercury  On the backup PG thing... what the person on the forum protection list may want to consider is that these guys are playing minor minutes... I would hope that the positive plays would also be mentioned (instead of just the bad X10)... I saw a steal by Hunter leading to a Flip facial on Hinney...... I saw some nice inside drives and kick-outs (or score) by Murray.... sure nuff they weren't very good tonight... but besides Prince who was?
Balanced opinions will always be respected more.
It sure looked like the starters gave up most of the points differential before the reserves got in.... but then again it could be that "Pistons only leg fatigue syndrome". |
The hope is that they will play minor minutes. We went quite a spell in this game with someone else besides Billups running the point. My point is that our odds of winning it all increase if you plan for such things as injuries, or extensive foul trouble. Last season it was Sheed with an ankle injury, while believe it or not, Dale Davis was already on the roster, as was Maxiell. Just that they had not played any and therefore could not come in and take some of Sheed's minutes. Did I mention we traded away Darko, and if thats not bad enough, we never played Cato any. We just flat out ignored the concept of depth at the big position.
By the way, I love Joe Dumars, but I sure don't think his opinion on this matter is very good. Last year he pretty much stated that if we lost any of our starters we were toast, and so what. He has changed his tune this season, but it does not excuse him for last season. Was he backing up his coach in saying this kind of thing? I have to think so as I hate to think bad about Dumars.