Teetering
Now, having stepped up onto our soapbox about the desire to quit, if down 12 points in the 3rd quarter of an NBA game...
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We WILL follow up by pointing out that if you are -12 to a very good team, with 8:00 left in Q3, that you are in a precarious position.
You have absolutely no right to quit if -12 with 8:00 left in Q3. But you DO realize that if you let them get on another run, it's going to be over. There is no margin for error in that situation.
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Two terrible performances have brought the count to -7.5 games, and that's not out of it, either. But now you are down -14 with 4:00 left in the 3rd.
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Somebody looks over sadly and says, "see, I told you we shouldn't have come out of the locker room at halftime," guess how we're going to react to that guy? We'll wrap him in tape and leave him in a locker. :- )
But the last two lousy days have put the M's near the brink. Zduriencik is well aware of this, which is why Michael Saunders is up.
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What would *I* do, if down -14 with 5:00 left in the 3rd quarter? I'd sub in three players. Whatever bullets you've got in the gun -- Clement, Carp, Saunders, a deal for a bat that does not hurt you longterm -- it's time to fire them.
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Time to deal Washburn and Bedard? Not for the sake of humiliating ourselves, no. IF you can get a true building block for Wash, great. Think you can?
Cheers,
Dr D