So you’re suggesting Roper was there for defense? Explain how he is so much better on defense compared to Berry, who should have been there, or even Simmons, who, like Roper, and unless being hot on offense, should have not been there?
Are you suggesting Beran was there for defense? Is Williams a liability with 2 less inches on defense when he had a great game and is bound to not be shaking his knees at the end? Or, god forbid, Nance was on Laravia while Young was on, they would never go to him, mediocre, Walton?
I am not pointing this out after that fact. When in hindsight it’s easier to see mistakes. I pointed it out during the game. Williams was there at the end of regulation for example.
You keep downplaying the +/-. And I do agree there are limitations to that stat. Especially the fact they can’t capture who on the other team is on the floor. But it’s game after game, after game. At some point you need to just admit Young is a heck of of a ball player.
Finally, stop the non sense of missed bunnies, or that this or that player shot poorly. The suggestion that it was just a game, a fluke, we are fine, and it does not normally happen, so we will win games. For every stupid miss we have, or cold player, the other team has the same happening. Maybe High Point is still wondering if they’d have beaten a P6 school on the road if their stud did not go cold in the 2nd half. We are not the unluckiest team out there who just misses bunnies while others don’t. We just don’t pay that close attention to other’s misses or cold/poor shooting performances.
The conclusion is that CC makes baffling decisions. I am not one to say he cost us the game. Not one game, as we can never know what would have happened. But it’s game after game after game. And that I can say he ends up costing us games over a stretch.
