Re: Stupid win...

[Tammo29@xxxxxxx]

>>how more stupid can the coach get...

when he plays all the starters until the last 4 minutes of the game...  when
the opposing team already pulled out all their starters since mid 3rd
quarter.<<<<

Is this a test to see who was watching?
Pierce was pulled with more than six minutes to play.
Iverson played through the end of the third quarter.  Iverson played 4 less 
minutes than Pierce.  Big deal.  He was playing poorly, otherwise I have no 
doubt he would have played in the fourth.
Snow wasn't pulled until 8 minutes left in the game.  Same with Kenny Thomas. 
McCaskill started and although he only played 14 minutes, he did play till 
the very end of the game.
Robinson was pulled about a minute into the fourth.  So I'm really not sure 
who you are talking about when you say all the Sixers starters were pulled 
halfway through the third quarter.  That was clearly not the case.

Banks played the final 6 minutes.  Last I looked he is not a starter.  
McCarty is not a starter.  Davis is not a starter.  Mihm may be a starter, but with 
the way he's picking up fouls he hasn't been playing starters minutes.  Those 
are the guys that were in the game when most of the Sixers starters were 
pulled.  Jones, Hunter and Perkins were all at the scorers table with more than 4 
minutes left to play.  Unfortunately, this is the NBA, not the NHL.  You can't 
substitute on the fly.  You have to wait until the officials let you.  They 
actually got in the game at 3:55.

I suppose you could complain about Walters 43 minutes, but how much of that 
was because of Mihms foul trouble?  You could also ask for more than 4 minutes 
for Jones, Hunter and Perkins, but I'm not sure I want to see them all in the 
game together with more than six minutes to go in the game.  Doesn't anyone 
else remember the near fiasco against the Wizards?  
I'm sorry, but I have difficulty getting on Carrol for the way he distributed 
minutes at the end of this much needed victory. If we had lost this game 
after how well this team played for the sake of playing Perkins and Hunter an 
extra five minutes that could have been catostrophic.
There will be other chances to play the young guys.  Hopefully we can get 
them some more meaningful minutes here and there during games and not just 
garbage time.  I think that would be even more important than a number next to a 
name in the box score.

TAM