and I couldn't understand for the life of me why he wasn't playing him.

there's an article around the internets about jason kidd/avery, where a source says kidd told them "he's crazy" and relates the same tenacity that made avery a great player relative to his limitations, made him very difficult to be coached by.

Thank God Marshon's free. That must have been personal, cause as hard as it was for that team to score, keeping him on the bench made no sense.