You have two options to evaluate:

1. Your claim that Pope, a highly paid coach with extensive playing and coaching experience who sees the players every day at practice and spends dozens of hours each week watching film of his players, can't identify who his best players are (or refuses to start his best players), and you know more about what the lineup should be than Pope does.

2. The alternative possibility that Pope, with all his credentials and experience, actually does know who should start at this point in the season given health status and how in-shape players currently are, and you're just wrong.

Which one is more likely?