DLo / Vincent Christie / Reaves / Knecht LeBron / Rui / Reddish Vando / Wood AD / Hayes In an ideal world Max takes a big step forward, becomes a legitimate 3&D rotation player and starts (even if he's only 20ish minutes a game). Bring Austin off the bench to stagger the ballhandling, he would close over DLo. This time around I prefer to start Vando and give Redick time to work out the kinks around his lack of shooting next to AD. At this point I'm pretty dejected and about ready to accept that our window is closed. Too many teams on the rise or peaking as contenders in the West.
let's gather around in a circle, hold hands, and pray Rob needs our help right now, and we need divine intervention.
Some quibbles on the tiers. Russell had a higher VORP, BPM, PER, and virtually identical eFG% and WS/48 with Reaves (and almost identical ORtg and DRtg). You can put them both in one or the other area, but splitting them makes little sense. Rui might be a starter, too. I can see putting Gabe, Wood, and Vando below the line. Hayes might surprise this year.
That’s a fair point, DLO and Reaves are probably both suited as quite good 6th men. I guess I’m splitting hairs, but Reaves did have the better run in the previous years playoffs when we made the conference final.
JJ said yesterday that he plans to use a 9 man rotation in the regular season. I find that odd to fit our bench unit and manage Bron/AD minutes but it is a way to minimize our poor depth. I think with Vando out, the 4 bench guys are clearly Gabe, Max, Knecht and Hayes. When Vando and Wood return, I'm curious to see who goes out. Won't be shocked if Vando plays the backup 5 at times when he's back Wood mentioned that JJ expects him to play with Bron and AD together, giving us a size advantage on the court. I appreciate JJ approach on this, by naming the starting lineup and now the 9 man rotation, setting clearly what his vision and expectations are, which I think helps players know their role and what they are supposed to do and trying to master that. Maxwell Lewis was one of the guys who worked the most time with the staff this summer and he said he was working on shooting corner 3s, guarding and corner crashing, which exactly what he would be supposed to do if he got any playing time. Not that he will (or should) but it's good to know that these guys are working on exactly what is expected front them instead of wasting time in other areas
JJ have been raising the g-league team and commenting that it will be an extension of their team and will be used wildly. I think Bronny, Maxwell and the 2-ways spend most of their time there. JHS will play a lot of games there barring injuries in the 10-man group. Even Knecht I imagine will play there a few times. The only guy left out is Cam and Wood, who will just eat bench for the year
