Coaches don't sleep particularly well after a fourth straight loss, but that was the situation the Tokyo Apache's Bob Hill faced on Wednesday after his team's two-point, double-overtime setback to the Akita Northern Happinets.
Coupled with the team's fourth game in six days on Thursday, a sleepy-eyed Hill opted for some big changes in an attempt to end the recent slide. He moved teenage forward Jeremy Tyler and guard Justin Johnson, a newcomer, to the starting lineup, opting to use Mike Chappell and Cohey Aoki as backups.
The move paid off, with Tyler and fellow big man Robert Swift controlling play inside for long stretches of the game in Tokyo's well-rounded 94-80 thrashing of the Happinets.