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Originally posted by <b>BCH</b>!
Last night was the first sign to me that Collins is pulling in the reins a little on this team. Minutes for Kwame, Jeffries, and Hughes relatively low while Laettner gets a good amount of run while the Jazz are pushing back, and Oakley gets run to end the game. I thought Haywood was providing some stability on the boards and in the paint, yet Collins went away from it. There was mention that Kwame was told to get a hand up on Malone and his turnaround, which he did. When he was in the game he was active on defense and had a couple sequences when he altered or blocked a shot. Kwame right now is one of the only guys on our team that is doing that. Haywood can, but seems to be a step late on most occassions.
Collins needs to stick with something. Jordan had a lot of minutes last night, and maybe both he and Collins felt that it was a statement game. I sort of felt that way, after Utah made the comeback. There was a lot of emotion in that game for a regular season meeting.
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but I think it speaks toward the future with how Collins handles certain situations. If he is unable to let go a little bit, then something needs to be done.
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I agree with this BCH I just think you have to let the young guys play through mistakes, I didn't mind what happened last night in him playing Oakley but Collins coaches in patterns and pulling the reins back on the young guys prematurly isn't a good pattern to form the mix of the team works with the youth and vets mixed but won't do anything for the future if they aren't allowed to grow.
AK47 is amazing this guys length and foot speed wreaked havoc all night he harrassed Stack into poor shooting ,they have quite a player in that kid he was my favorite rookie to watch last year.