but you can't take Jamal of the game because on the very next possession he could hit the same shot. He could however learn to let the shot clock run

I'm not going to quibble with Lenny's choices of who plays what minutes. Think he does a pretty good job of that. Jamal has hit some clutch shots. He deserves to be in the game at the end.

But what about calling a play when we're up one w/ 28 seconds to go? We had four guys standing around and Jamal dribbling on the wing. What's that? If you want Jamal to go 1 on 1 (wouldn't be my choice when Marbury was getting in the paint at will), at least put him at the top of the circle where it's harder to help w/o leaving a wide open shooter. That possession seemed like total chaos. We had timeouts. When better to use one? Inexcusable.

Then, on the final play, we try a simple pick away out of bounds play, and, surprise, surprise, Detroit defends it so we can't get the ball in bounds. So we call a timeout. Then what do we do? Run the exact same play, and, shockingly enough, they defend it again.

I agree Lenny takes a lot of the blame for the loss. But to me, his biggest mistakes were in failing to diagram even decent plays on our last 2 possessions, not in substitution patterns.

Lenny made the same mistakes he made last year when Anderson was confused about whether he should have taken a foul at the last minute when we were winning by 2 points. Lenny was having his senior moment at the end of that quarter. Marburry was on fire, he and Houston were supposed to be the go to guys.

Posted by diderotn:

Lenny made the same mistakes he made last year when Anderson was confused about whether he should have taken a foul at the last minute when we were winning by 2 points. Lenny was having his senior moment at the end of that quarter. Marburry was on fire, he and Houston were supposed to be the go to guys.

Coaches have different strategies... Phil Jackson has been known to not take time outs when opponents make runs. This is just one game.