planetmars wrote:
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Nurse is a good coach but has trust issues and plays favourites. I'll tell ya, if he had given half of Gasol's plodding minutes with our lumbering offence out there to TD, Thomas, or maybe even Boucher, we'd be on the ECF right now. It was only a 5pt game 7. If any of these guys knew they'd get a consistent 10-15 minutes per game, they'd come out balling, aggressive to the basket and hunting their shots so they could make a name for themselves. They'd be moving all over the place off ball and would even enhance/space the game for Lowry & Siakam.
Instead they never know when, with whom, or how long they're gonna play, which is a terrible way to give players confidence and rhythm. They can't rip a fart the wrong way and if they're not perfect within the first 2 minutes they get the hook - and you're back to the slow guy shooting 30% from the field that doesn't look at the basket anymore, but that you "trust" and give an infinitely long leash to (because of stuff they did in practice, or a year ago against different opponents, with different teammates, under totally different circumstances).
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