10-21-2022, 06:45 PM
(10-21-2022, 06:10 PM)MarkAguirreWrathofGod Wrote: It wasn’t just the last 48 seconds. Wood played 12 minutes the entire second half, right. He was rolling again and sat until 2:40 left in the game if I’m remembering right. Maxi was having one of his afraid to shoot games, we were being outrebounded and were having trouble scoring.
I appreciate your response, but it you look at the way he was played in the 2nd half, it was such a non-event, or at least should have been.
In the 3rd, Wood came in at a normal time for a non-starter, about halfway through the quarter. He played straight through until about halfway through the 4th. He certainly needed a rest, and was rested until 2-3 minutes left, giving him 4-ish minutes of game time to recover from a full-quarter stretch. Then he played down the stretch until there were 46 secs left, and they decided to insert Dinwiddie for him.
From the way people are responding, you'd think (a) he didn't play at all in the 4th, or down the stretch, and (b) the issue is a big number of minutes he was being not used. But really, there's just a question of whether it might have been been better if he was used (inserted earlier, or taken out later) by about 30 secs or so here or there. And that's just such a nothing burger, and it's just one game that maybe was less than ideal, so the extremity of the points being offered feels like something from the theater of the absurd imo.