Comments on: Detroit’s Saunders Unable to Flip the Switch http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/04/29/detroits-saunders-unable-to-flip-the-switch/ The season's over. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:11:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Thell http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/04/29/detroits-saunders-unable-to-flip-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-12682 Andrew Thell Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:27:23 +0000 http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/04/29/detroits-saunders-unable-to-flip-the-switch/#comment-12682 I agree Isaac. You could write another column on the spotty and often uninspired play of Chauncey Billups and Rasheed Wallace this series as well. And yet another on just how well those long-armed Sixers are playing in the passing lanes. But as a coach when you have the far superior team a lot of it falls on you to make sure your team <em>isn't</em> outworked and <em>isn't</em> sloppy. It also falls on him to react to the aggressive defense of the Sixers and to find ways to consistently take advantage of their mismatches in size and experience. I agree Isaac. You could write another column on the spotty and often uninspired play of Chauncey Billups and Rasheed Wallace this series as well. And yet another on just how well those long-armed Sixers are playing in the passing lanes.

But as a coach when you have the far superior team a lot of it falls on you to make sure your team isn’t outworked and isn’t sloppy. It also falls on him to react to the aggressive defense of the Sixers and to find ways to consistently take advantage of their mismatches in size and experience.

]]> By: Isaac http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/04/29/detroits-saunders-unable-to-flip-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-12681 Isaac Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:18:58 +0000 http://www.emptythebench.com/2008/04/29/detroits-saunders-unable-to-flip-the-switch/#comment-12681 While I agree with you guys on Flip being a "sub-par" playoff coach, I think this series against the Sixers has much more to do with the players.... When two teams are evenly matched, you can argue that a set play or a substitution cost them....but in this series, the Sixers are the far inferior team...they are outworking the Pistons and the Pistons are playing into their hands by being sloppy with the ball... While I agree with you guys on Flip being a “sub-par” playoff coach, I think this series against the Sixers has much more to do with the players….

When two teams are evenly matched, you can argue that a set play or a substitution cost them….but in this series, the Sixers are the far inferior team…they are outworking the Pistons and the Pistons are playing into their hands by being sloppy with the ball…

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