Randy Wittman building a reputation as a playoff coach, whatever that is
After a regular season that had many Wizards fans pulling their hair out, Washington coach Randy Wittman has flipped the Wizards' typically staid playbook and substitution patterns on their heads. With the coaching wizardry through two games against the Raptors, not to mention Washington's extended postseason run last year, it's worth wondering whether Wittman knows something that we don't. Jake Whitacre at Bullets Forever posits that Wittman and the Wizards may very well have been toying with the NBA all season long:
"It's easy to make your team look like it's improving in the playoffs if you deliberately save your best lineups and plays for the playoffs, even if it makes you look worse during the regular season.
"Then again, the whole point of the game is to play your best basketball at the end of the season, isn't it? In the heat of the moment, the random minutes for Rasual Butler and Martell Webster may not make sense, but if it keeps them quiet when Otto Porter takes all their playoff minutes, maybe that makes it worth it."
(h/t Bullets Forever)
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