He said in that interview that he wasn’t expecting to play, and that he’d gotten a cardio workout earlier that day. The fact is, his number got called, and he wasn’t ready to go.

Mostly, though, I blame Theus for leaving him on the floor when his legs were so tired that his shot was barely grazing the front of the rim. He was a great on-ball defender, but was perpetually lost on team defense and in most of the offensive schemes that weren’t run specifically for him. After he had three shots in a row fall short, I was screaming at Theus to take him out.

I would have rather had JT on the floor trying to play himself into the game than Douby playing himself out of it. I would have rather had BJax on the floor, too, for his experience and clutch shot making.

If this was an experiment designed to give Douby more confidence, it backfired.