Telfair

[Eric Albert]

I agree completely.  During the Bucks game I said to my wife,
"I have no idea who's going to come in next."

That was also the game where the first guy off the bench
was Scalabrine.  Yeah, I was one of the people who said he
wasn't killing us like in prior years.  No, I didn't mean he
should be getting more minutes than Gerald Green, Rajon
Rondo and Leon Powe *combined*!

-- Eric

>markp at floridalaborparty.org wrote:
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>Doc really is killing me with his substitution patterns.  FWIW, that more than just about anything killed me with Pitino too.
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>Exhibit A:  MIL --- Delonte's the first PG off the bench after he's played almost exclusively the 2.  Ugh.  Rondo plays all of 20 secs at the end of the quarter.  Unless Rondo's still sick there's no excuse for this.  But if he's freakin' sick why put him in for 20 secs? Ugh.
>
>Exhibit B:  NY --- granted this is like arguing about the musical selection of the band playing as the Titanic sank.  But as NY grew and grew its lead via the zone.  Doc must ahve subbed 35 players in and out during a 6 min stretch in the 3rd quarter.
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>This "we don't need a rotation" business is as stupid as the "we don't need a closer" thing the Sox trotted out  a few years back.  Does that make me hoping for a Keith Foulke?  Uhhh.....
>
>I was watching some of the IND/TOR game the other day and it struck me that Carlislse substitution patterns were just about the same as in the game vs. BOS.  Guys came in knew WHO they would be playing with, what they're roles were, and just got after it.  ugh.
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>(the other) mark
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>[Mark B. Wrote]:
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>Doc is really jerking around Delonte and Rondo right now. He spent the
>full training camp and preseason telling Delonte to be strictly a
>2-guard. Now he's playing 2 and 1. Rondo's minutes go up and down
>depending on Doc's whims. I think he really hurts the confidence of guys
>when he does this stuff. Both Delonte and Rondo seem to be thinking too
>much out there. You can't play that way.
>
>Anyway, I wasn't really bashing Telfair. I like some of what I'm seeing.
>I'm just in no way convinced he should be a starting point guard on a
>good team. He is what he is -- a Bobby Jackson/Barbosa type. That's a
>good thing, unless one of those guys is your starting point guard.
>
>Mark