Coach's decisions work out, for whatever reason

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Coaching is crazy
Published 4/25/2008 by mgrange at The Globe and Mail - From Deep
As I hope came across in my column , coaching is crazy. Sam and his staff huddle and ponder and think and decide to change the starting lineup in Game 1 and get – arguably – burned by it in Game 1 and 2. In Game 3 he makes another change, though really just a return to the lineup they used most this season (Bosh, Bargnani, Moon, Parker and Ford was in place 36 times this season and the Raptors were .583) but not regularly for a while, given injuries to Ford, then Bosh and then Bargnani's performance compared with Nesterovic later in the season. And while it made sense on one ...

Linkage - April 25
Published 4/25/2008 by Scott at The AltRaps Blog
... battle. But after last night, Van Gundy was left looking for answers.“It’s on me. I’ve got to get us into some stuff that’s a little bit better,” he said. “I thought we had a good plan coming in, we did not and we go back to work [today] and try to figure some things out.” It’s unlikely Mitchell will sit still, though with a win under his belt he might be relieved of the temptation to alter his starting lineup again. But you never know. It’s not like there are any certain answers. - Globe and Mail And while it made sense on one level, the risks of playing two struggling ...