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Originally Posted by Murphy3
How is it knee jerk? Please explain it to me...? It's knee jerk to say that Terry has a tendency to make boneheaded decisions on the defensive side of the ball in crunch time especially in the playoffs? He has a significant history of doing so. It's knee jerk to say that it'd be great to take him off the court in the final possession for your opponent.. or one of the final 2 possessions if you can do so by using your timeouts?
What's knee jerk about that? No one is calling for the guy to be benched for the entirety of crunch time.. just take him out if at all possible on the defensive side of the ball in the last possession or two and insert him back offensively. If you don't have the Timeouts for it, you can't do it. If you do, then get the guy off the floor on the defensive side.
That is all that this thread is about. It is in no way a knee jerk reaction... whether it's making a horrible decision in fouling Durant when the guy was going to have to throw up an extremely difficult shot because the shot clock was running down.. or giving Nash a 3 apparently unaware of what the game situation was.. or the Chalmers fiasco last year.. Terry just doesn't seem to have his head in the game defensively late in some of these playoff games.
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Murph is absolutely on point. You have JKidd (a very smart defender), Delonte (a very good, tough defender), and Matrix (an elite defender) to guard the perimeter. There is absolutely no reason to have JET out there
if you have the timeouts to get him back in on offense. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior and we all know JET's history. The probability is way too high that he will go brain dead on defense at a critical juncture. Why take the risk? This detracts from JET's overall value for sure, but it does not diminish the fact that has delivered clutch shooting in the fourth quarter. Not a black and white issue.