We're already missing Smart's playmaking and continuity with the starters.
His contributions in the Magic game were so worth it.
Can we drop the magic game already. Smart could easily have gotten hurt in the first few mins of this game.
Sure, if those two games were in any way analogous, but they're not.
Please go check what pretty EVERY other coach did in the second to last game. And the issue is that smart got hurt.
I don't give an F what every other coach did, as their situations are all different. It didn't make any sense whatsoever to play any of our regular guys over the last two games, as there was literally no benefit to it and only risk. Amazing how people can bury their heads in the sand and put the blinders on all to absolve Brad of this clear mistake.
If only Brad didn't play Hayward the 1st game last season we would've won the whole thing last year!!!
Yeah, this is what they call
reductio ad absurdum, a logical fallacy. The fact that people can't make an argument to protect Brad for this decision without committing a logical fallacy kind of highlights exactly how it was a costly mistake on his part.