Wrong Scrub Whose Last Name Begins With "Gr"

Matt expected Griffin to ruin the game for us, but instead we got Gray.

I don't mean to badmouth the big man. He acquitted himself very admirably out there tonight in his season-high 20 minutes. But why seven of those minutes had to kick off the fourth quarter is beyond me. He doesn't play meaningful minutes all year, but what the hell, he had a nice spurt there, so why not ride the kid into the ground? Sure, he's already a step slow to begin with, but you never know, maybe a lengthy stint will make him faster.

Not to put this all on Gray, much less Skiles. (If he thought Ben Wallace (terrible, yet again) was his only other option, then I can see why he decided to stay with Gray.) Ben Gordon has just got to start shooting the ball better, and after only 5 TOs the last three games combined, Kirk played the anti-Santa tonight, giving the ball away 6 times. But why a kid who hasn't played a meaningful minute this season is out on the court when the game (which apparently Skiles himself believed was "big) was on the line is simply incomprehensible to me.

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