This is just one more coaching mistake on a long list this year.You can only leave your reserves in for so long(no matter how well they are playing at the moment)before their production drops and you lose your momentum and your lead. [This message has been edited by Hardwood Hammer (edited November 29, 1999).] [This message has been edited by Hardwood Hammer (edited November 29, 1999).]
God I was thinking the same thing. Francis was taking out during the third quarter and Bullard is either taking up all of Anderson are Cato's playing time. Anderson was having a great game yet Bullard's in there.
Please lets trade Shandon Anderson so he can receive his well deserved playing time. Its apparent that Rudy T. is in love with Matt Bullard, so trade Anderson please. Why dont we go ahead and start Bryce Drew the second half since he recieves most of the playing time in the second half anyways. Chalk this loss up to Rudy T. with his horrible substitute patterns and his love toward Bullard.
Why doesnt rudy play shandon more ? He begged him to come to houston, at least give the guy a chance. ------------------ "Don't they get cable in Canada ?" Keith olbermann, after watching hakeem block terry catledge's shot 5 times.
Okay we didnt lose, but my point is Matt Bullard has played the whole fourth quarter and the whole overtime for two games in a row. So what if he hits a couple of big threes. If he wasnt in there to begin with we wouldn't be put in those situations. Who would of thought at the begininng of the season that Matt Bullard would take up all of Shandon Andersons minutes. Thers not any movment when Bullard and Barkley are in there at the same time. Shandon Andreson congratulations for a great game, but its not your fault that Rudy likes players who stand behind the htree point line.
We only have 4 guards as I count them: Francis,Anderson, Drew and Mobley. Therefore each of them will get playing time just out of necessity. Also, with no Hakeem, Rudy will be using odd substituion patterns.
if you are going to have the no defense of williams or bullard out there, why not just go small and have Anderson at the 3 spot, he is still a better defender even though shorter.
I'm glad we won.We need victories big time,but if we weren't playing the Grizz...............and Stevie wasn't such a playa!
We really can't gripe too much about substitution right now with so many players out with injuries. Did yall see our bench? It looked empty. Nice win, whew!
We won, yes, but we could have easily blown the game because of Rudy (again). Why the hell was Cato sitting on the bench so long in the 4th? Dude shuts down everything in or near the paint. What took so long to bring Francis in? Kid was awesome yet Drew gets more 4th quarter time. Play Shandon a little down the stretch so we have some defense and then we won't keep giving easy shots beacuse of slow rotation after our half-ass way of defending the pick-and-roll backfires (breathe). I have no idea what Rudy is thinking, doing, or injecting during the games, but it really makes me sick. Oh well, get used it if you're not already cuz he's not the type of coach to change his philosophies overnight or over the course of 5 years either.
