Interesting...

[Moranis]

How many times does our 2nd team lose to their 2nd team?  Most of the time.

If your bench sucks, you lose.

would you please be able to offer up the evidence for your assertion on "our 2nd team" losing most of the time?

i mean it. your point goes against commonly held perception here, which can be a good thing, but without some form of logic, proof, evidence, whatever, all  you have offered is a blanket assertion that convinces no one.

thanks in advance for the reasoning and evidence.

The commonly held perception on these boards is that our bench is getting outplayed regularly. This can be backed up simply by looking at bench production over the course of this season. I think the SA bench scored close to 50 points to our 20 something

though at one time common consensus was that the celtics had a great bench too.

good point on the SA game. do other games support this as well?

Some of the bench scoring is manipulated.  For example, Pau Gasol "started" for the Spurs, but 4 players on their bench played more minutes than he did.  Mills also played more minutes than Parker and Bertans was right behind Parker in minutes.  Obviously Amir Johnson was similar to Gasol in that regard so it works both ways, but the 3 highest minutes in the game were all starters for the Celtics.  More starter minutes = less bench minutes = less bench scoring.  Boston's starters took 20 more shots than San Antonio's starters, while San Antonio's bench took 10 more shots than Boston's bench.  Though the real reason for the loss was 22 of 25 vs. 7 of 9.