While I agree that it was a bad coaching move, why is everybody so quick to blame Mo for a lot of problems? I mean, yes, he is contributing his share to the problems of the team, but not too many people here are lashing out at Korver for his poor defensive effort there at the end. No excuse for that.
well, some may say it was mo's fault for having korver in on a key defensive play in the first place. if i were in the situation, i would have substituted korver for matt barnes
Salmons Takes Blame for Loss <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">This was a full 30 minutes after the 76ers' wrenching, 94-93 loss Sunday to the Indiana Pacers. John Salmons still had not digested it. He had finished his daily ritual of icing his knees, but he remained seated at his cubicle in the locker room in the Wachovia Center, staring straight ahead at... who knows what? "We're 5-2 after the [NBA All-Star] break," he finally said. "If we can go 5-2 every seven games, we'll have a great record. We've got to stay up and get down from [this loss]." It was the defensive sequence that had Salmons staring off into space. Sixers coach Maurice Cheeks had instructed his small lineup (Salmons, Kyle Korver, Andre Iguodala, Kevin Ollie, Allen Iverson) to "switch everything" on the inbounds pass. Instead, Korver stumbled, permitting Jackson to get ahead of him, Salmons didn't switch, there was no shot-blocker guarding the basket, and Jackson went in virtually unimpeded with 2.9 seconds remaining. "I played a big part in the loss," Salmons said. "I mean, just the whole game. I missed two foul shots [in the fourth quarter]. I feel like I had a big part in the result." Webber offered various versions of "It just hurts" 17 times. Cheeks invoked the same phrase several more times. "That one hurt," he said. "That one hurts. It hurts because we fought all game. We were fighting to climb uphill the whole game. We finally get it [a 93-92 lead with 50.3 seconds left]; we're up one with [the Pacers having] the ball on the side and we gave up a layup. I don't mind getting beat shooting a jump shot, but a layup with, I think, our best defensive guys in the game. The one thing I said before we went back out on the floor [after a Pacers timeout and a Sixers 20-second timeout] was to switch everything; if they beat us with a jump shot, fine. We didn't switch it correctly and ended up giving up a layup, that's the killer." </div> link: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/14035923.htm
