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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:09 am Post subject: Hollinger: Coaches will have to decide on injured players

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/john_hollinger/01/18/all.star/index.html

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Where it gets trickier is with the second-tier stars -- the guys such as the quartet above. I have two ground rules to help us decide:

1. Did he play enough to make a dent?

The length of the absence matters. At the very least, we should ask an All-Star to play in half his team's games by the time the All-Star Game tips off. Since it's around the 50-game mark for most teams, that would be about 25 games. Also, it goes without saying that in those 25 games he still needs to play at his usual All-Star level, which Davis, Hughes, Kirilenko and O'Neal all have done.

2. Will he take the spot of somebody just as good?

This is the big problem for Kirilenko and Davis especially, because there are so many deserving players in the West. If Kirilenko plays 25 games and somebody else plays 50 games with the same effectiveness, then Kirilenko has no case. The standard should be that the injured guy has to be demonstrably better than whoever's spot he'd take.

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