Jefferson and Millsap got little help from their teammates, with no bench players in double figures and Marvin Williams shooting 1 of 6.
The amenities most players crave, according to some team travel directors, are round-the-clock room service (lots of late post-game meals), top notch fitness facilities (bench players need to get their workouts in), and blocks of rooms segregated from the other guests (who wants to hobnob with the commoners during downtime?).
Second, Billy Beane would be much quicker to bench underperforming players than is typical on Wall Street.
In the Falcons' pre-season run-out against Rotherham, established names including last season's Premiership top points scorer Jimmy Gopperth and Micky Ward found themselves on the bench, while players such as Manning, Will Welch and former Toulon man Tim Ryan got the nod.
"Seeing most of their first team players on bench, we knew that they didn't know what was going to happen in this game, " he said.
The injury occurred right in front of the Louisville bench, where the players gasped and turned away quickly at the sight of Ware's dangling leg, which was broken in two places.
The world's richest cricketing nation should have a larger bench of top-class players.
And after it was all over, the whole team joined in a bird dance that the players on the bench had been doing during the game.
If Dimon leaves there are not many experienced players on the JPM bench of executives that seem to be clear successors.
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For now, the Yankees will likely turn to veterans Matt Diaz and Juan Rivera, both 34, dependable but unspectacular players who were fighting for bench jobs before Granderson's injury.
And for a manager who expects players to come off the bench and make an impact - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer immediately springs to mind - his decision was perhaps understandable.
The suspect was known as one of the strongest players on the team and could bench press 300 pounds.
What is great about this team is that players, who started on the bench, could produce results on the pitch.
Then again, a number of the teams who rested players still included them on the bench in their matchday squad.
Sensing a victory that would ensure Heineken Cup qualification for next season, Scarlets director of rugby Nigel Davies called for his senior players held in reserve on the bench.
Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau attributes the spectacular play of his bench this year to heavy use of those players last season, when injuries sidelined starters Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah, among others.
Traditional media players are not sitting idly on the bench.
The sight of players on the pitch signalling to the bench to check what position they were supposed to be playing was also a novelty of the Vogts era.
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After all, coach Mike Woodson, who has been too loyal to his veteran players at times, moved Kidd to the bench and got improved production out of Pablo Prigioni.
The screening techniques are so accurate that the National Basketball Association has asked OSU doctors to help identify which of their athletes are at the highest risk for anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, and other injuries, and to come up with programs to try and prevent them, so that more players are on the court than on the bench.
"We may just have to promote one or two of the guys that may have been on the bench, but in this match it is not about having players on the field for the full 80 minutes, " he said.
Players sprint, jump, catch, throw and furiously bench-press a 225-pound barbell until their upper body exhausts.
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Two players who did nothing but stand up and leave the bench.
He may have left established players such as Joe Cole and David Beckham on the bench here with Wednesday's game in Croatia match in mind but it will worry him that their replacements struggled against such unheralded opposition.
The Rangers players were disciplined by manager George Burley and were on the bench for Wednesday's World Cup qualifier against Iceland at Hampden.
As soon as Ware fell, several Louisville players dropped to their knees in horror, and the Louisville bench recoiled in clear sight of Ware's broken leg.
As soon as Ware fell, several Louisville players dropped to their knees and cried, and those on the Louisville bench recoiled in clear sight of Ware's broken leg.
Flood is likely to be on the bench when manager Martin Johnson confirms his replacements on Friday, pending the fitness of several players suffering with illness.
Coupled with the large number of players the Yankees brought in on one-year contracts or to fight for bench jobs, that leaves 10 men fighting over six spots in the final week of the season, with many decisions perhaps coming down to the weekend before opening day, a weekend when the Yankees play Army at West Point, said manager Joe Girardi.
Captain Philipp Lahm, midfielder Marco Reus and Miroslav Klose also scored for Germany in the rout, though it could have been any of the 10 players zigzagging and one-touching their way across the field for Germany, and probably anyone on the bench as well.
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