Hollins on sitting Bogdanovic in fourth: 'I don't want to talk about it'
Bojan Bogdanovic was playing maybe his best game of the season heading into the fourth quarter of Wednesday night's overtime loss to the Mavericks.
He was 6-of-8 from the field. He had sunk all five of his three-point attempts. Yet, Bogdanovic didn't see the floor in the fourth quarter, when the Nets relented a big lead, until the final possession of the period.
Here's more from ESPN's Mike Mazzeo:
Regardless of if Hollins wanted Bogdanovic on the bench because of the Mavs' two-point-guard lineups or not, Dallas was also 16-of-34 from three in the game. At some point, you have to match that, and Brooklyn doesn't have the three-point shooters to do it if Boggy isn't out there with the team.
The Nets are the worst three-point shooting team in the NBA. They need all the help they can get. Wednesday night, they disallowed that help.
Naturally, Brooklyn coach Lionel Hollins was asked about this peculiar decision, and all he could muster was, “Well, I could just say coach’s decision, which it was. And I’ll just leave it at that.”
That’s it? Nothing more?
“I don’t want to talk about it,” Hollins said after a follow-up question.
And with that, he walked off the podium -- his peculiar decision, which had backfired, still a mystery.
For his part, Bogdanovic said he respected his coach’s decision and opined that Hollins did so because Dallas was playing two point guards. But in the final period, Shane Larkin was a minus-9, while Jarrett Jack went 0-for-2 from the field.
