I mentioned Martin and his injury prone self on the first post. Why wait for injury when you can sale high right now? Who knows for what but for something because once the injury comes in it might not happen later and then your still stuck with both players after TD.
So you already knew the compressed schedule means more rest for the vets, and more playtime for the young players. Cheers.
I believe its the opposites. Who made this assumption it means less PT?? You got less games. This is easily mean each game is worth more. More.
November to April. 6 months. 82 games. Roughly 13 games each month. (13 2/3) Compared to 4 months (Jan to April) to play 66. 16 games each month. Are these 2-3 games more each month seriously gonna give the proper minutes to youngs? You are acting as if we have a back to back each week. Cheers
We do have a back to back every week, sometimes two. There is a back to back to back in the 1st week. There should be another somewhere later too. There is a 3 games in 4 nights in most weeks also.
joesr, 1st week, back-to-back-to-back (12/29, 12/30, 12/31) 2nd week, double back-to-back sets/4 games in 5 nights (01/03, 01/04, 01/06, 01/07) 3rd week, double back-to-back sets/4 games in 5 nights (01/10, 01/11, 01/13, 01/14) I am not going through the rest of the schedule to list out the back-to-back sets every week. There are also many 3 games in 4 nights sets also. coachbadlee, good point.
This seems like sound reasoning to me; every few games their (starter's) minutes would have be greatly decreased - so that they wouldn't be so completely exhausted before the end of the season. It wouldn't make sense to utterly gas our main starters so much that they couldn't play at their peak in the playoffs...or so I'd think. I'm betting that in addition we'll see some interesting player substitutions in this odd season, more so than we would in a regular season, for essentially the reasons above, plus the addition of a new coach and a halfway new team...or perhaps instead of having a starter team and a bench (with a few extra players just in case), we may have what amounts to almost a three or even four squad team. Perhaps the one or two 'extra' squads would regularly sub in every game half or two-thirds of the way through a quarter, or perhaps there'll be almost a rolling rotation with one squad off every fourth game, something like that. The only problem I see with that last is that surely our starters will always start every game as they're supposed to be our best players, and you want your best players on the floor as much as possible. Hence the interesting substitutions, as most the main players are going to need to be spelled more often within a game and for longer periods of time than normal. I'm surprised at how interested I am in watching this season; I thought after losing Coach, losing Yao and then the lockout that this would be a downright terrible season (not even really mentioning the Monster Trade That Almost Was)...but so far, it's been pretty exciting - and it hasn't even really started yet!
I was just "proving" that you can't automatically dismiss a 6th seed. Those Rocket championship teams are perhaps the best example but there have been others. Every single year a lot of "superstars" don't win the championship, too.
What a mind blowing misguided thread. I can see that the layoff has been waaaaaay too long, giving too much time to over active minds. Is it just me or are there more negative people then ever on ClutchFans? You know what potential will get you? Not a damn thing. Young players get minutes the "old fashioned way", they earn it ! Let the team play already before you write off the players, rotation, coach and season ! Too many "experts".
