A few random observations:
1. Our guy's name is Aldrich. Aldridge is on the Trailblazers.
2a. Tyreke Evans is not the villain.
2b. Isaiah Thomas is not the villain.
If the true villain didn't play some kind of mental eeney-meeney-miney-moe to determine his rotations, we wouldn't have about 80% of the arguments we have over Evans and Thomas. Smart - and I use the term loosely - effectively iced Evans when he was having a very, very, very good consistent game and didn't put him back in until the damage was done.
3. John Salmons looked like a fish out of water. You know what you're going to get with Salmons within a few minutes. But, once again the EEMM decreed that he stay on the floor, helping about as much as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.
4. DMC was set up, both by Dunleavy (whose motives I've always questioned as he's banked for years on his angelic face) and by Smart, who could have kept Demarcus out for a couple of minutes to let him calm down.
5. There is no longer any way to defend Keith Smart. He's now officially earned the title of most inept coach in the history of our franchise, and considering some of the bozos of the past, that's saying something.
6. Watching this game was painful, primarily because the team pretty much did everything they could IN SPITE OF HORRIFIC COACHING DECISIONS to get back into it and win. I can only imagine what it would be like to see them play with even just a mediocre coach on the sidelines. I'm not asking for Adelman or Sloan or Jackson. I'd settle for Nate or Stiles or even Byron Thomas.