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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
If you're down by 20 with 1:25 to play, there's no chance of coming back. It's not baseball. I can find a lot of fault with Isiah over a lot of things (here I'll go back to Jerome James), but not this.
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If you just mean considering his team to have lost I agree, if you mean the whole incident I think it's unclear. There's no room for a coach to be threatening (even obliquely) physical harm to players who are trying to play the game. It's not Melo's fault his coach left him in there. I realize there's all sorts of unspoken rules that govern these situations, just like in baseball. Just like in baseball, the system works precisely because the rules are unspoken. The players have control of the consequences for violating them, which is as it should be since they are the ones who are going to have to absorb the retaliation.