bench

[keltsfan]

Yeah, Allen has been awful lately and his performance last night fit right
in with the trend.  The playoffs is no place for unfocused players who also
happen to be turnovers waiting to happen. As a potential changeup to see if
he can work when nothing else is working is fine, but it's damn difficult to
count on him as a regular rotation guy when you don't know what you're going
to get from moment to moment, let alone game to game, especially in the
playoffs when every possession is so important. 

Ravi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On Behalf
Of Kim
> Malo
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:41 AM
> To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List; celtics at igtc.com
> Subject: Re: bench
> 
> At 08:46 AM 5/1/2008, steve knight wrote:
> >agree as well on the need to use the bench more. keeps the starters
> >fresh and is a rejunvenating factor for the whole team. no excuse
> >for tony allen not playing. or house. none.
> 
> Then you apparently didn't watch the last month or two of the season,
> because Tony thoroughly earned his seat on the bench despite their
> going out of their way to give him opportunity after opportunity. He
> wasn't even just reliably bad, he was inconsistently bad so that you
> didn't even know for sure what he was going to do from game to game
> to allow for it - and if the turnovers on offense weren't bad enough
> it had started to edge into his defense, which is the main reason to
> play him, probably because of his emotional state, where he was out
> of place and getting fooled by guys who shouldn't have been able to.
> 
> I'd have tried him on JJ down in Atlanta, myself, since he was
> probably not going to be able to make us much worse on either end and
> it's possible that totally out of control Tony could disrupt him even
> if we didn't have effective Tony to do so. But that's all it would
> have been - a short leashed attempt to see if throwing the changeup
> could fool them (and don't forget that Tony's been bad enough that it
> has to have been showing in practice too, which Doc sees and we don't).
> 
> Kim
> 
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