(09-12-2013 07:57 PM)MICHAELSPAPPY Wrote:  Here is a wild guess. Maybe he is tied too much into a formula of substitution. He decides before the game what the substitution pattern needs to be in minutes played, and sticks too rigidly to it. Sort of like baseball managers with a pitch count. But then you think that Zack Graber played all the minutes in that 5 OT game, so that does not fit.

Not many Zack Graber's around though.

(09-12-2013 09:51 PM)LRTrojan Wrote:  

(09-12-2013 07:57 PM)MICHAELSPAPPY Wrote:  Here is a wild guess. Maybe he is tied too much into a formula of substitution. He decides before the game what the substitution pattern needs to be in minutes played, and sticks too rigidly to it. Sort of like baseball managers with a pitch count. But then you think that Zack Graber played all the minutes in that 5 OT game, so that does not fit.

Not many Zack Graber's around though.

That was rather amazing. And you hear all this talk about guys being "tired". Zach played almost 2 games without a blow. I remember a few years ago, a bad Georgia team won he SEC tournament by winning 2 games in one day (due to the tornado that screwed up the tourney). You hear coaches all the time blaming a loss on playing 3 games in 5 days or whatever. These are 19 year old kids we're talking about. They'd love to play 2 games in a day.