Trade Telfair where?

[Frederick Hurley]

On Wed, May 2, 2007 1:12 pm, Eggcentric at aol.com wrote:
> My short answer: All coaches want to WIN and will naturally go with
> the players who they feel will best help their team to win. If you
> have two centers (Haywood and Thomas) and you bench/reduce the
> minutes of the better of the two, there is usually a good reason.
> Jordan is considered a pretty fair guy and he has been on Haywood's
> case for a long while now.   Is he wrong? Teams don't part easily with
> their #1 centers unless there are clubhouse/on court problems.

There's a critical assumtion here: that all coaches want to win, AND that
this desire will cause them to sublimate their natual likes and dislikes
in service to the greater goal of winning.  I don't know Eddie Jordan, so
he may well be that kind of guy.  But if there are players out there that
can't do this, why do we assume coaches can?  It's not like we can't
identify a list of craptastic coaches that stink for other reasons.  Why
not this reason, too?