05-04-2021, 02:14 PM
(05-04-2021, 12:39 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: Excellent observations.
He basically said the exact opposite of what you just said.
You want to bench Green, because his invididual performance wasn´t up to your eyetest standards, but the whole unit functioned (aka THE TEAM) and was outplaying the opposition, while he was on the floor. Is it really that difficult to understand?
Porzingis is probably a better player than Tyson Chandler overall. Does that mean we´d have won the 2011 Championship, if we had replaced Tyson with Porzingis?
We are talking about the context of one game.
When Green entered the game, the team was already losing 25-36.
When Green left the game it was tied 41-41 after 16-5 run.
At HT they were down 54-61 again.
So you are telling me that GREEN was the problem and his invididual performance and standard in the team construct on THIS NIGHT justified his benching.
You have decided that the team would have won these six minutes with Green even bigger, if Green wasn´t playing?
Of course it´s easy to bench Green, when Carlisle didn´t bring him onto the floor, because he believed in Green. He was just upset the team was losing again and looking to punish Melli for his one-on-one move.
Which was pretty stupid to begin with, since it was a wide-open 4 feet hookshot. Funny as it may have looked, I bet Melli has still made more of them than he has three pointers from the corner.
You don´t do it the Carlisle way, it´s wrong. Just ask the floor general of the 2020 NBA champions Rajon Rondo or the defensive anchor of the best team defense in the NBA in 2021: Nerleans Noel. Might as well ask Delon Wright, too.