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Originally Posted by grndmstr_c
If Fisher is playing 20-25 minutes a night when he's not making shots, it'll probably be because he can at least be counted on to run the plays the coach wants run the way the coach wants them run, and to be where the coach wants him to be, when he wants him to be there, on the defensive end. If that comes to pass, you may call that playing when he doesn't deserve it. I'll call it the payoff for having earned the coach's trust by consistently doing what's asked of you. If any one of Dallas' other point guards had come close to doing that we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
As for the GSW game, you're echoing what was a popular sentiment on this board and around Maverick land at the time, but without getting into the merits of the specific play-call, the fact of the matter is that OJ wasn't at all hot when the last shot was given to Vince. He didn't get hot, or start demonstrating an ability to make plays on the offensive end, until the OT period. Rick definitely has a history of turning to veterans when in doubt, but that play isn't remotely an example of him having done so to a fault.
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O.J. Mayo led Dallas with 27 points and nearly answered Curry bucket for bucket down the stretch,
scoring seven of the Mavericks' last 10 points in regulation and all 11 of their points in the extra session.
Meanwhile Carter didn't even score in the 4th.
To me this is easily as good an example of turning to veterans to a fault as any other. If he needed to justify turning to a new guy in that situation, he could easily have referred to what Mayo had done in the game and in the 4th.