[washingtonismoney]

Yeah, I know guys need rest, and it obviously didn't affect the outcome, but this stretch was the best any Stanford 5 has looked all year, and instead of, say, subbing out 1 or 2 guys and letting Pickens keep shooting, Dawkins subbed out all 5.  Monty, doing play-by-play, pointed out the obvious--when your team is playing out of their minds like this, you don't do a line change.

I don't want to come off as a post-win nitpicker, but lineup management has been a consistent weakness of Dawkins's for his entire tenure. I remember back with the Randle/Brown/Huestis/Powell/Nastic/etc. team he would frequently put all his scorers on the bench at the same time. He just doesn't understand the basics of how to manage a lineup, let alone rotating a lineup for favorable matchups.

[washingtonismoney]

Yeah, I know guys need rest, and it obviously didn't affect the outcome, but this stretch was the best any Stanford 5 has looked all year, and instead of, say, subbing out 1 or 2 guys and letting Pickens keep shooting, Dawkins subbed out all 5.  Monty, doing play-by-play, pointed out the obvious--when your team is playing out of their minds like this, you don't do a line change.

I don't want to come off as a post-win nitpicker, but lineup management has been a consistent weakness of Dawkins's for his entire tenure. I remember back with the Randle/Brown/Huestis/Powell/Nastic/etc. team he would frequently put all his scorers on the bench at the same time. He just doesn't understand the basics of how to manage a lineup, let alone rotating a lineup for favorable matchups.