Difficult defensive assignment for Monroe?  No sweat, let him rest while Kravtsov puts a body on his assignment for a while.  But instead, Frank keeps letting Monroe get his lunch money stole by big centers, while exhausting him trying to keep up with more physical centers.   (Its like he’s never heard the concept of 6 hard fouls at the end of the bench).

Franks rotation seems predicated on little more than fouls and timetables.  How often have we watched him sub out a player thats been hitting, when they don’t seem fatigued?    

Basketball isn’t football?  Sure, but is there empirical evidence that basketball and football players react so differently to speciality subbing? 

It sounds like Frank’s providing a pretty feeble excuse for not engaging in experimentation that has a good chance of being fruitful.  Could it be that he knows what respect he commands from the players is, for him as non-player, too fragile to step out of the box and be an innovator? 

That’s pretty abstract, but isn’t it obvious that when you’re getting killed on the offensive boards you should give a shot to the 7 footer in streetclothes on the bench rather than the guy half a foot shorter?  At least, by way of experiment, for a few minutes, to see how that obvious, specialist subbing, strategy might work?