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Originally Posted by Murphy3
Read the thread.. put him on the bench for a key defensive possession late in the game whenever possible. Get him back in offensively.
I'm not talking about sitting the guy for long stretches during crunch time... The Mavs have sat Dirk at times on the defensive side of the ball especially last year when Chandler was with the club.
Terry needs to take a seat at those times because he's entirely too prone to boneheaded defensive plays.
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That is always easier said than done. You would have to be willing to burn time outs just for a defensive substitution. It burned you guys in game 1 when you had 1.5 seconds on the clock. Imagine what an extra timeout would have meant for you at that time. I get the philosophy and maybe that's more doable at the end of the game where there are a lot of timeouts called between plays. But you cant rely on it hoping your top shooters can simply be inserted when its your team to be on offense.