<div align="center"> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Now, after piecing together statements from numerous sources, what follows is what we believe to be the specific series of events in the Mitchell-Alston battle that sparked all this insanity: The defensive game plan on Tuesday called for Alston to leave his man and double-team Cavs centre Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Alston did that for the first few minutes, but he grew frustrated when the player he considered to be his man hit a couple of jump shots. Alston cursed toward the Raptors bench, saying he wasn't going to double anyone anymore. Alston essentially abandoned the game plan, which Mitchell saw as an act of open defiance that he could not let stand. </div> Full Article</div> If the article was true (too plausible not to be), I think Sam had the right to bench Skip. By the way, Rafer is still waiting for "someone" to issue an apology .... <div align="center"> <font size="7">___</font></div>
If that was what happened (only Sam and Rafer truly know), then Sam had the right to bench him. I dunno bout keeping him in the locker room, but Sam should bench someone who ignores the game plan like that. Man, Milt and/or Pape should just apologize for what they did so Rafer can stop whining.
