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<blockquote data-quote="aaeismacgychel" data-source="post: 2022722" data-attributes="member: 748794"><p>I've seen it happen a few times but it's a fairly rare occurrence. I've seen Izzo, Weber, and Knight do it to I want to say usually not positive effects followed by a presser where you get the standard, I'm going to play the guys that are going to work their tails off on the court. Generally from what I recall in those games, you're already down and you take the loss with the hopes that your players respond the next few games. I want to say this is the only time I've seen it work as well as it did. Usually you don't win games when you have to resort to doing this. Now the question is how the team is going to come out against Minnesota.</p><p></p><p>I will say, it was a gutsy call by Underwood, because if it hadn't worked and we started getting blown out and the starters still didn't respond, there would have been a lot of ugly questions at the presser and questions about whether he lost the team. So he did take a pretty sizable risk there in my opinion, and really happy that it worked out, obviously. He made the right call in my opinion, but it definitely isn't the easiest call to make and there can be a ton of consequences. He definitely pulled the right strings in this one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aaeismacgychel, post: 2022722, member: 748794"] I've seen it happen a few times but it's a fairly rare occurrence. I've seen Izzo, Weber, and Knight do it to I want to say usually not positive effects followed by a presser where you get the standard, I'm going to play the guys that are going to work their tails off on the court. Generally from what I recall in those games, you're already down and you take the loss with the hopes that your players respond the next few games. I want to say this is the only time I've seen it work as well as it did. Usually you don't win games when you have to resort to doing this. Now the question is how the team is going to come out against Minnesota. I will say, it was a gutsy call by Underwood, because if it hadn't worked and we started getting blown out and the starters still didn't respond, there would have been a lot of ugly questions at the presser and questions about whether he lost the team. So he did take a pretty sizable risk there in my opinion, and really happy that it worked out, obviously. He made the right call in my opinion, but it definitely isn't the easiest call to make and there can be a ton of consequences. He definitely pulled the right strings in this one. [/QUOTE]
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