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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 4237775, member: 93"] It was the second Nova game when Polley hit the shot and we won. Last night was the third. Kimani pulled him later and put him back in sooner, AND he drew up a play to get him the shot we needed. It worked. Hurley pulled him sooner and it was too late when he put him back in. I haven’t gone back and reviewed those 15 seconds but I don’t think Polley got a shot; wasn’t it AJax? Is that who you want shooting a three? This has gotten beaten to a pancake of a dead horse at this point. My premise is a simple one and I’m surprised it’s so controversial here: when we are trailing a close game our starting lineup does not give us our best chance to win because it is too limited offensively. You have to get a shooter in the game, and it should be sooner than the last 15 seconds. How much sooner depends on how much you are down. I have given tons of credit to Hurley for managing this unbalanced roster and I have repeatedly said that his gamble has paid off most of the time. I am simply talking about a specific end of game situation when I think it needs to be re-examined. He is getting better, but he is still a very stubborn and predictable guy with his game plans, as last night showed. The announcers mocked him all night for sticking to his plan of letting Samuels and Slater beat us, because they did. But the reality is they are a better team with a better coach, and their third, fourth, fifth and sixth players are better than ours, even if our two best cancel each other out—which on one level is what happened last night. It was like a chess game where we each neutralized each other‘s two best players. If you told me before the game that that was the plan, I would have expected a much worse result for us. So there’s that. [/QUOTE]

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