
Benching players in foul trouble
All i know is the Orlando coach got strung by his nuts for losing that game & all Howard had to do was hit one foul shot to give them a 4 pt lead with 10 secs left. If Howard hits the free throw, all the second guessing of his coaching goes away.
Turkoglew was awesome down the stretch & almost won them the game. He's a great player. All the mistakes came after they should have iced the game from the foul line.
Did Van Gundy have done anything differently? No way man - very unlucky!!

I would save him for crunch time. It appears that teams seem to pick up the pace a bit towards the end when the result of the game is more determined. Not only that but if they have slacked off a bit in the early stages of the game, they tend to want to do a lot more to make up for it towards the end. That's when you need to have those players available.

If you're Al Westover, and Chris Anstey pickes up his fourth foul in the first half of a match at the Cage, you keep playing him because you know that he is never going to pick up his fifth and sixth fouls.

Agree with LA Boy, sometimes you just have to play them, particularly if momentum is on your side.
