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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 2715668, member: 1026"] But it is true that the coach has no confidence in him supported by his season! It was simple risk-reward for Fultz: A. No way they were playing him in Boston, zero point zero chance. Crowd would have ate him alive and players would have immediately gotten a switch onto Tatum where the #1 pick is posterized for eternity. Then someone would edited that poster to have Danny Ainge smiling in the stands, maybe put a head in hands Colangelo in there too. B. So now we are in Philly with must win games, maybe they could have put Fultz in Game 3 with the big lead. Risk-reward is simple fact that Fultz was playing garbage minutes in regular season, that's where his stats and b__s_ triple double came from (in a 40pt win over Bucks in which Giannis & Middleton played combined 38 mins while Sterling Brown [the actor?] played 33 mins vs the 4 minutes Sterling got in playoffs). They knew that Fultz wasn't ready to compete against front lines of other teams in regular season, no way could he have held his own in much more competitive, faster, playoffs (look at his minutes/stats in Miami series, ok in blowout, sucked 0/3 with a turnover in 5 minutes in a loss then 2 dnps). C. Only counter argument is when BBrown went with Simmons in 4thQ amidst the great game (2?) from McConnell. I supported that for giving Simmons the reps and big picture standpoint. So could make a case to give Fultz some reps. Difference is Simmons had earned those minutes with his regular season play. And with Simmons there was a chance his regular season dominance returned and he could be a part of propelling Sixers past Celtics and beyond. Neither true for Fultz. D. Fultz over Tatum is a joke, owners/GM might have even instructed BB to keep Fultz on the bench to save embarrassment. And of course now they can mitigate the damage with predictable "he's still injured" stories. Shaky. [/QUOTE]

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