Mark Teixeira offered a few reasons for the offensive drought — the damp and cool weather, their 4 a.m. arrival into town Monday — but not the absence of Curtis Granderson and Nick Johnson, whose injuries have pressed bottom-of-the-lineup players into leading roles.
The Wildcats have a lineup of players looking forward to N.B.A. careers, while Cornell's players, according to guard Louis Dale, are looking forward to nothing but "babies and memories".
They have had their regular lineup of players intact for only six of 44 games.
And they are doing it with a lineup of players for whom 2004 was the prime of their career.
A good coach should know that one could not use the same lineup and players against every team.
It was as if the Nets had flicked one big reset button: new coach, new lineup, healthy players.
The latter featured an eight-piece lineup incorporating players from the splinter group Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, who had split off in 1988.
But D'Antoni said the problem involved the entire lineup, and players' failure to keep proper spacing in the half-court sets.
The plan is to allow the audience to vote on such moves as naming the starting lineup, benching players and even picking cheerleaders.
But unless the Mets revamp their tepid lineup and players like Roberto Alomar, Mo Vaughn, Roger Cedeño and Jeromy Burnitz have comeback years, the team's solid pitching will be backed by a weak offense.
Whatever the lineup of players, the hard part isn't the golfing; the hard part is finding a course that meets our standards, or, more accurately, our lack of standards.
