Hill to stay with line-up for game 3- John Denton Blog

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MAGICFAN47 I am not trying to just dispute you to start anything but if you look at the Lakers team and the Magic team for the last games that were played you will see that our great coach brian hill did not play 6 of his player while phil jackson did not only play 3. minutes were more distributed and i am sure that there were a various number of lineups used. i really don't have a problem with a coach having a starting lineup BUT IF IT DOES NOT WORK YOU MAKE ADJUSTMENTS NO MATTER WHAT TIME OF THE THE YEAR IT IS. even if he wanted to continue to start nelson, it would bother me still but if nelson was off(which he has been recently) them you take him out the game. it is what is best for the chance to win the game. jameer can't guard billups, period. and yes jameer may make a shot here and there but as it stands right now he is 7-21; 19 pts for this series. now you will want to start to argue"well i dont want my pg making all the pts his job is to assist", WELL...he has a grand total of 6 assist for the SERIES. While in the same breath the pg r. alston of the houston rockets is 6-20; 20 pts and 13 ast. that is my problem. no knock on alston but i believe you could honestly say that nelson is better than alston. nelson either is not playing they we have saw last year bacause last year was a fluke/because of chip on the shoulder he no longer. BUT THE MATCHUP OF NELSON VS BILLUPS IS ONE SIDED: ADVANTAGE BILLUPS. now i am not saying that arroyo/dooling could do that much better but will we ever find out and i rather find out game 1 second half or game 2 than game 3 but it does not even look like that may happen. you can not say that you do not love to see arroyo drive to basket the way he has been? bottom line is that you play the players that are going to help you win NOT the ones you have written down somewhere that are going to start no matter what the match may be. you make defensive adjustments at end of games all the time. you put in your 3 point specialist if you know you need that to go into over time. why not adjust your starting pg if he is getting manhandled out there or just off.

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Originally posted by MAGICFAN365:

MAGICFAN47 I am not trying to just dispute you to start anything but if you look at the Lakers team and the Magic team for the last games that were played you will see that our great coach brian hill did not play 6 of his player while phil jackson did not only play 3. minutes were more distributed and i am sure that there were a various number of lineups used. i really don't have a problem with a coach having a starting lineup BUT IF IT DOES NOT WORK YOU MAKE ADJUSTMENTS NO MATTER WHAT TIME OF THE THE YEAR IT IS. even if he wanted to continue to start nelson, it would bother me still but if nelson was off(which he has been recently) them you take him out the game. it is what is best for the chance to win the game. jameer can't guard billups, period. and yes jameer may make a shot here and there but as it stands right now he is 7-21; 19 pts for this series. now you will want to start to argue"well i dont want my pg making all the pts his job is to assist", WELL...he has a grand total of 6 assist for the SERIES. While in the same breath the pg r. alston of the houston rockets is 6-20; 20 pts and 13 ast. that is my problem. no knock on alston but i believe you could honestly say that nelson is better than alston. nelson either is not playing they we have saw last year bacause last year was a fluke/because of chip on the shoulder he no longer. BUT THE MATCHUP OF NELSON VS BILLUPS IS ONE SIDED: ADVANTAGE BILLUPS. now i am not saying that arroyo/dooling could do that much better but will we ever find out and i rather find out game 1 second half or game 2 than game 3 but it does not even look like that may happen. you can not say that you do not love to see arroyo drive to basket the way he has been? bottom line is that you play the players that are going to help you win NOT the ones you have written down somewhere that are going to start no matter what the match may be. you make defensive adjustments at end of games all the time. you put in your 3 point specialist if you know you need that to go into over time. why not adjust your starting pg if he is getting manhandled out there or just off.

 

I couldnt say it better .