What Game Was I Watching Part 2

Mitchell made a gamble by having Moon play all of crunch time against Philly, and having him start against Chicago, and both times it paid off. My criticism of Mitchell after the Bucks game came not from just his inserting Moon into the game early, but his removal of ALL the starters. However, I was not at the game, I was not in the huddles, and I have not been to any practice [minus Fanfest of course]. Moon has obviously show the coaching staff something in practice to merit starting, so the decision to put him in the game against Milwaukee so early is understandable, especially when they needed someone to match up against the athletic Desmond Mason, who was hitting one handed hook shots over everyone the Raptors threw at him. In hindsight, then, the problem to me wasn't inserting Moon, but instead that the lineup I felt they had on the floor was not one to make a run to bring the came closer. Denver just showed Indiana that a 26 point deficit is surmountable, so being down double digits in the first quarter is nothing to fret about. Yes, it was the starters who created the deficit, but I felt some mix of starters and bench could've POSSIBLY been a bit more effective. However, the game is over, what happened happened, and Mitchell has shown in the past two games that he wasn't foolish to put Moon in the game, as I'm sure he knows a lot of things that we don't. That's why he's the coach.