Change has to come from Cuban

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We just played Denver 2 games in a row where the Nuggets were short both game there 3 best players - Jokic, Murray and Gordan.  In the 1st Game Wood had 28pts and 8rbs in 26 minutes.  But in the 2nd game he only played 17 minutes and only had 5pts with 7rebs, Why?  In the 1st Denver game wood had 16 shot attempt's and in the 2nd game he only had 3. ...

"Why?"

There is an EASY explanation. People just don't want the truth, however, and prefer to come up with absurd theories of coaches sabotaging their own team, or of them being too stupid to be able to see who is better (or playing better) than whom.

In this 2nd game, Wood was playing like suck. The lack of shots was on Wood, and came from him "being a step slow" (aka being sleepy, distracted, not having his head in the game, just going through the motions, or however you want to understand it). Eventually, in an attempt to win, the minutes that they wanted to give to Wood went to Bertans instead, who was playing well and was a major plus (+21), and Wood was invited to take his tired/lazy/sleepy/disinterested/unfocused hiney to the bench and "nap" there. It was bad enough that it was mentioned rather than buried.

That's the immediate situation and explanation. I suspect that out of sight, there's even more of this ilk to be known that had been kept out of sight.