A few points... A) Playing "less minutes this year" is relative... If harden was grossly overtaxed last year - to the degree he flamed out in the playoffs... is the mere fact he's playing less minutes on average necessarily mean that he's now playing the correct number of minutes? B) CP3 has been injured and then working back from injury... I certainly hope he's played less minutes than previously... C) It's not just the superstars... 32 year old Ariza has logged 41, 42, 42 and 45 minutes in the last 4 games - including a b2b.... D) if you're in a dog fight every night with games being decided by a basket or 2 - then yeh, you probably have to lean heavier on your starters... but when you win by 20+ points and your starters are in there with 4 minutes left in 4th qtr - thats stupid and unnecessary...
injuries are gonna happen to any team... some injuries are freak occurrances... some injuries are lack of conditioning... some injuries are from overtaxing your players... It's about limiting the potential for injuries... which MDA does not seem inclined to do...
I forot he sucks at taking timeouts too....a lead doesent have to go from 13 to 4 ffs. When an opponents cuts a 10+pt lead in half its usually a good time to call TO, take note MIKE.
