Pioneer10
Come home Sideshow Bob
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You're saying two different things here.
In one breath, you're suggesting that there's no difference between players 6 through 11 on the Cavs, so they should all play. Then in the next breath, you're saying 2 of the 11 guys will see their minutes cut... which is exactly the point I was making originally that you argued against.
Two things are true here.
1. Jose and Korver both deserve to play. They've both made positive impacts all year.
2. The Cavs will not be able to successfully play 11 players. They might *attempt* to do it, but it won't work.
My curiosity comes from which guys see their minutes reduced and which ones don't. My fear is that Calderon, Korver and Nance see their minutes reduced while JR and Tristan continue to play rotation minutes.
Can't emphasize this enough as this is key to the post-season IMO: the coaching staff need to figure this out ASAP and have the balls to cut back on JR and Tristan.
Rotation minutes have to be divided among all of these at the worst serviceable players: Lebron, Love, Hill, Hood, Nance, Korver, Clarkson, Calderon, Green, TT, JR, Osman, Zizic. That's 13 players and playoff rotations are typically 8-9 players
I don't necessarily agree with this but because of youth Zizic and Osman are both likely to get cut of out of the rotation: that gets you to 11
The next obvious one to go for me is Tristan which would get you to 10 and I think that you can make it work but you know that not going to happen and you still need two people or at least one to put out of the rotation. I think that means Calderon because this coaching staff lacks the balls to take out TT and JR is going to be taken out of the rotation completely and Korver/Nance see reduced minutes. Which will be immensely stupid as both the eye test and the +/- agree that the team wins with these guys.
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