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Originally posted by: jimmychipwood:
Yeah, I was at the Lakers/Mavs the other night, and didn't have a clue why Nellie started 3 guards and two forwards.
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It is incomprehensible that Nellie starts games this way. His smallball fetish is getting to the point of insanity. In Nellie's delusions, his reasoning based on what little whistle said the other day is this: "We have to have some aces up our sleeves for late in the game when the game is decided." His fallacy is that if we start many games in a hole down by 10 to 15, sometimes against the good teams it is tough to make that difference up. How many games against the lakers do we seem like we tank immediately after the tip? The main cause is Nellie's inexplicable starting lineups (along with his pregame surrendur).
Last year with our offense flowing smoothly you could maybe get away with these crazy starting lineups. This year you cannot! We don't have the offensive explosiveness that we had last year. It might come at some point, but until then Nellie needs to listen to reason and start our big five (or four + Bradley) at least against the good teams.