My thoughts with him saying iit was an equipment issue is that it had more to do with not throwing Talbot under the bus. He made up an excuse rather than saying Talbot went to the room and had taken his gear off or was having a meltdown or whatever. Talbot was then obviously pretty frank with reporters, but I guess Ward hadn't coordinated any answer with him and wanted to keep it in the room rather than out him. Just speculating, but based on how he tends to always talk his players up to media, that's my guess at why he came out with that.
As for Lucic, he may have over used him a bit, but how can you be dissatisfied with his coaching of Lucic overall? He helped turn Lucic from dead weight back into an impact player. That's a pretty outstanding achievement.
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