OT Gasol gets benched for 4th quarter loss against Nets

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  1. riverman

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    I'm not referring to a solution for Memphis here..
     
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    To be honest this is a players' league to an annoying level (for me at least). Coaches disrespected everywhere and treated by players like they are friends or whatever.
     
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    Its VERY annoying. Popovich is the only coach I think who can confidently do whatever he wants with his players. Everyone else is at risk if they are too hard on players. Bench a guy? Yell at him? Pack your bags.
     
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    Couterexamples:
    Old: Pop
    Young: Brad Stevens
     
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  6. GDiama

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    Of course there will be those. Exceptions that prove the rule.
     
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    Good idea!
     
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    That use of that saying always bugs me. The word "prove" in that context is being used in an archaic sense meaning "test" (as in "proving ground"). So what it means is "the exception tests the rule" - in other words, if there are exceptions, the rule is invalid.
     
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    That's not a sign that the players rule the league. That's a sign that the GMs are chickenshit.
     
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    You don't have to be a MF'er. Look at Brad Stevens. It's easier for old white guys to be MF'ers with young, predominantly black guys. What's really hard is to communicate and get them to act like a team. Think of teachers you've had - the best teachers get students to contribute and take charge of their own success without having to yell at them.
     
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    When did Aldridge become older than Marc Gasol?
     
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    The idea or reasoning behind it isn’t the issue. Good teachers and good coaches etc. It’s the NBA and the players. Brad Stevens is an anomaly. Fizdale was tough on a star player and he was fired. This is what coaches have to consider. It isn’t college or HS. You don’t coach guys that way or you’re gone.
     
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    And I’m not saying you need to MF guys. People wanted Stotts to jump guys for defemse or whatever. He knows he can’t do that.
     
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    The players 100% run the league. Unless you are in San Antonio.
     
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    Well he sit Gasol last part of the 3rd and all the 4th. He your best player and at least show management that your trying to win. Remember Stotts did it to Nurk and everyone went nuts. But Nurk was okay with it and Gasol wasn't okay with his benching. But haven't Memphis lost 9 in a row and think that has something to do with it and not putting Gasol back in was the final nail on the coffen.
     
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    Wow. Did not think he would get fired. The fact that he was able to win anything with most of a roster that is D league quality should mean something. I am all for bringing him on as an assistant.
     
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    Time to hire Fizdale as an assistant coach (with a wink).
     
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    So, they 96.66667% run the league.

    BNM
     
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    What's cheaper for owners? A coach earning minimum wage or players who are the highest paid in the league? Who pays tickets to watch Tisdale coach?
     
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