It wasn't that Nabokov didn't play well, he just didn't rise to the occasion and steal a game or two for his club.
Like Roseman, he didn't play, didn't coach and had no connections.
"Wayne wasn't ready to play so we didn't play him, " Phelan told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"We just didn't play two halves, didn't have any passion or energy or intensity the first half, " Rice said.
"Some of our players didn't show up - we just didn't play well, " he said.
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It wasn't a contest, we didn't play well and there wasn't enough thought in the way we batted.
"In the first half we didn't play with the same defensive intensity we did in the second half and we didn't battle on the boards as well as we needed to, " interim coach P.
Tejada didn't play between May 6 and June 24 last year because of a similar injury.
"We didn't play well enough to win, that sums it up really, " added Moyes.
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Key reserve Carlos Delfino didn't play in the second half because of a sore left foot.
Teams that didn't play on Monday planned to pay tribute to Robinson on Tuesday.
"They didn't play very well and they still won by a lot, " Milwaukee's Mike Dunleavy said.
Cano said teammate Alex Rodriguez, a Jay-Z pal, didn't play a part in the switch.
We obviously had a very difficult last part of our schedule and didn't play particularly well.
"We're pleased we won, and didn't play our best by any stretch, " Self said.
This one was such a laugher that their starters didn't play the fourth quarter.
"In the first 30 minutes they played well and we didn't play well, " he said.
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Lightning captain Vincent Lecavalier didn't play and is out indefinitely because of an undisclosed lower body injury.
"He didn't play as well as would have liked, he's a better player than that, " said Young.
He then gingerly made his way to the bench and didn't play the final 11:18 of the period.
She didn't play competitively again until March 2009, when she entered the doubles tournament in Indian Wells, Calif.
Maybe we didn't play as well as we did last night and we got a loss last night.
Williams made four 3-pointers, added eight assists and didn't play the final 15 minutes as interim Nets coach P.
"During all of 2011, I didn't play much like this, " Nadal said afterward.
That team was ripe to be beat and we simply didn't play the way we were supposed to play.
"We didn't play our best football and I was disappointed we kept turning the ball over, " manager Russell Slade said.
"We were under pressure because we didn't play a very good brand of football last week, " said Dublin native Stynes.
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"We didn't play in a week and I think probably was pretty emotional, getting into it a little bit, " Crosby said.
Mr. Bloomberg's allies said they realized he didn't play well everywhere and they would work to choose the most effective figureheads.
We didn't play much with the Korean OS, but Samsung claims the next-gen 128GB SSD offers a 25-50 percent boot time bump.
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