Has anybody ever considered that Buddy did so much F'ing stupid "stuff" in the game, some of it noticed by the casual fan, other stuff only noticed by Walton in what he expected offensively and defensively, and that Walton just didn't want to reward him by having in at the end of the game? How about if Walton and Buddy had numerous prior conversations of what was expected and Buddy just wouldn't or couldn't do what was expected and maybe Walton was fed up with the nonsense and didn't want him in there, period, end of story. And maybe Walton thought that the five players he already had in there had "earned" the right to be in there because of what they had already done in the game. Maybe there is a different calculus than simply: Buddy is a good shooter, ergo, he should be in the game.