Poetic justice

[Green 00]

Most teams go 8 deep in the playoffs.  I seem to remember the 83-84 Celtics going 10 deep:

Starters: Parish, Bird, Maxwell, Henderson, Johnson
Regular Bench: McHale, Wedman, Ainge, Buckner, Carr
11th man: Kite
12th man: (Carlos) Clark

Obviously, the 85-86 team used an 8 man rotation
Starters: Parish, Bird, McHale, Ainge, Johnson
Regular Bench: Walton, Wedman, Schiting

I think that Wedman got injured and the C's used 7 players in the final round.

The 1st of the Detroit 80's teams went 9 deep with a regular bench of Edwards, Rodman, Salley and Johnson...

Any have any more recent examples?  I haven't really paid attention to the finals since the C's became non-factors...

Charles






Douglas342 at aol.com wrote:

 
Amen!
 
During the game (or pregame), Tommy was talking about minutes in the  
playoffs and posited that the Cs might go 10 deep, using Posey, Leon,
 Cassell,  
House, Davis, and Brown.  Seems to me that few teams go more than 9
 deep,  and most 
go with 8.  Is this team the exception?  It's hard to see ANY  of those
 five 
sitting out for the rest of the year, although I'd concede that on
  that 10 
main roster, Brown is #10 and House #9.
 
Gabe, Scal, Pollard:  sorry guys, have a seat.
 
Round  One:  Cs 4-0.
 


       
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