Rotation Roulette

I guess the argument could be made that any lineup experiments we are going to try should be made against a team like the Sixers. Better them than the Pistons?

Nah, we just blew the game. Doc tried some things and they didnt work, the team didnt play well and we lost.

Just that simple IMO. 8)

one reason for a better game was doc finally had a practice, and guess what, it showed.

They’ve had a good season up until now, so why begin “mixing and matching” with 11 games left. Pure idiocy and excessive and mindless strategizing. They should rather stick with what has produced a 56-15 record. And as for minutes, they should avoid mimicking a baseball version of the pitch count. Pierce, Allen and especially Garnett with his 9-game vacation and 33mpg have not been overworked. They should try and run the table the last 10 games.

I thought that at a time in the year when we should be shortening our rotation Doc decided to expand his rotation and it cost us 2 games. In fairness to Doc he has to see how cassell and Brown fit in but if Doc has played his starters more minutes against Philly there is no way we lose that game. Against the suns he wanted to win since his dumb coaching had cost us the last 2 games so he was forced toplay garnett and piece a lot. And frankly that is the right thing to do. come playoffs those guys will need to play 40 minutes each per game. If Doc had been a little smarter about this he would have realized that after tonight he had 10 games left to rest his starters and play his bench. Even there though he has to be careful that his starters don’t lose thier edge. Plus we play a couple of teams that we could see in the first round so you don’t want to get too lazy. as we saw in the NO and Philly game it’s hard to light the fire once you let your players cool off.

Celtsfansince55 said:
  They’ve had a good season up until now, so why begin “mixing and matching” with 11 games left. Pure idiocy and excessive and mindless strategizing. They should rather stick with what has produced a 56-15 record. And as for minutes, they should avoid mimicking a baseball version of the pitch count. Pierce, Allen and especially Garnett with his 9-game vacation and 33mpg have not been overworked. They should try and run the table the last 10 games.

It’s about getting PJ Brown in shape and knowing what to do. It’s about getting Sam to know what’s going on and to get used to his teamates on the floor. We lost 2 games when the team was mentally exhausted from Texas and hadn’t practiced in forever. They didn’t lose because of tinkering with rotations, but because the players, including many starters stopped being aggressive in the 4th and tried to let the clock run out while sitting on a lead. They didn’t do that against NO. I think we’ll see tonite what we saw against Phoenix, because, to me, this is a must win get back at ya game. I think the playoffs will have a shortened rotation that will feature House as the pg backup, Perk, BBD and Powe at Center and little use of Tony Allen, Brown and Cassell. T. Allen and Cassell will give PP and RA some rest, but with extended commercials and a longer halftime in the finals KG, PP, and RA will be able to play big minutes. I also will throw in that I think Doc knows what he’s doing except when he says he used Powe in certain spots because of gut feeling. Gut feeling is fine when Powe plays great. I don’t remember people overly criticize a coach with a 56-15 record over the 40 years I’ve been a Celtic fan. And that includes other teams.

They didn’t do that against NO. I think we’ll see tonite what we saw against Phoenix

Meant to say Phoenix, not “NO”.