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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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Sorry Syd, if I am an owner, I don't want any of my players or coaching staff giving up on a blowout or a close game. If you can't play hard all the time, then that sends the wrong signal.
If you stop trying, you start dying. Giving up isn't an option. Especially for a coach.
And with the NBA rules like they are, nothing is finished till the horn sounds to end the game. Like Jax said, has happened before, and can happen again.
But that isn't to say a team will not be blown out of a game, I just don't want them going thru the motions and not playing hard. That to me is unforgivable.