GAME 11: DAL (6-5) @ NYK (3-9) | 103-106 loss

[DrMav]

This place is more toxic now than it was through the tanking years. It's crazy that such a high percentage of you guys just blame the coach. I just read through your reasoning and I don't see a compelling argument against the coach in the whole thread, just a bunch of venting based on a belief that what you would have done would work better.

Nah. Give me this coach, this roster and give them some time to sort some things out and I think we'll see this thing play pretty well. We've seen glimpses if it and we've also seen that it's a work in progress.

I'll watch them work it out and enjoy the process rather than expect a new, young roster to have it all immediately figured out.

Losses are frustrating, especially to bad teams, but losses are part of the process.

I think Carlisle is working through a new roster and just needs time.

BUT I  cannot for the life of me understand his Luka rotations for the 4th qtr.  Luka went out hot at then end of the 3rd and sits until 5:53 left.  

He's been doing this for several games now....why sit him that long and then expect him to pick up right where he left off rolling into crunch time?

This is exactly my frustration. Had KP and Luka played the final 8-9 minutes and we lost, I would have been able to handle it much better. Leaving your 2 best players on the bench in a very needed game is crazy.

No good coaches play their best players the entire 4th quarter. They rest them to start the 4th and bring them in to close the game. We did the exact same thing in 2011.

1) Flow of the game matters. Luka did nothing almost all of the 3rd til the final 3:30 where he exploded. Considering leaving him in to start the 4th is at least warranted if not expected.

2) If Luka is going to be taken out, gotta have a better sense of when to get him back in. He’s 20 years old on 2 days rest, not Dirk in his 30s, the guy can stand to play 39 minutes rather than 36 on a night you need him.