It doesn’t seem like a good look for the Hornets to leave their best player, or at least the player who is the biggest part of their future (Miles Bridges), on the court during the very end of a blowout loss. In this era of “load management” and “managing loads”, wouldn’t you want your important player to not risk injury during meaningless garbage minutes? This is how Derrick Rose died, people. He may have eventually resurrected, but he didn’t have to die in the first place.
Even discounting the risk of injury, teams don’t just leave good players on the court for the time of garbage. They just don’t. None of them do. That time is reserved for bad players to get some experience playing against… other bad players. Not for good players to take a dump on bad players (not like Bridges was really doing that because he’s not the type of player who can just score whenever he wants, but whatever).
And yes, I am reading way too much into this situation, thanks for noticing. Truth of the matter is I’m a little peeved at how much Hernangomez is getting marginalized this season and I don’t want Bridges playing meaningless minutes to get in the way of him putting up numbers in the meager amount of playing time he did get. There. Are you happy? All my emotions laid bare for the entire world to see.