Probably meant Drake, who was probably there to continue wooing Cousins, not paying attention to the Creator.
Because players coming off injury can't or rather shouldn't play continuously in long min spurts apart from the total minutes restriction and he put him in starter because that's what our lineup will be when he's gradually gets more healthy. I think he did well with DMO's minutes and anything else would be reckless and dangerous.
Benching bigs was message for the guards. Letting guards defend Cousins should have made it clear, how hard big guys on this team are working and how easy guards have it on D.
Im not arguing it didnt cut into the lead and work. I liked what i seen when the fronted and immediately doubled. But you cant act like it didnt wear them out because down the stretch they were gassed as result of that. Being a back to back didnt help either
Actually this isnt a bad theory also. Trying to imply how hard it is to defend the post to incite you shouldnt be slacking on the wings.
The benching got to James he played well on both ends after that and hustled. If Dwight would have responded the same and Thornton played we would have won.
If you can't play 15 min you're not ready to start. Capela had been the starter and that was (relatively) successful.
JB is doing exactly what McHale did a lot of times. Always trying to match up to other teams or play some crazy lineup that they think may work well together, even though they probably never practice like that. These lineups are like trying to make gold by mixing different metals together randomly and hoping one day that you will strike it rich, and then forget how you even achieved it. The best thing for our coach, whomever it is or will be, to do is to just run a simple 10 man lineup, barring injuries and fouls; by position only. Our team has too little BBall IQ and discipline for players to be trying to play multiple positions and understand their rotations and assignments under all those scenarios. So just simply: PG: Bev(24)/Lawson(24) (Terry if there is an injury or foul trouble, etc. SG: Harden(32)/Thornton(16) (KJ if there is an injury/foul trouble, for defense) SF: Ariza(32)/Brewer(16) (KJ or Dekker if injury/foul trouble) PF: DMo(30)/TJones(18) (Capella if injury/foul trouble, Harrell in rare cases) C: Howard(30)/Capella(18) (DMo if injury or foul trouble moving Harrel into PF) Obviously, JB should also not be trying to sub in all five bench players for the starters at one time. So a substitution pattern that allows for at least 2 starters to be on the floor at all times needs to be arranged with the minutes above. All these other wacky lineups are just confusing an undisciplined team anyway. They don't know their assignments and rotations already, let alone for each player trying to learn them for multiple positions.
