The starters have to rest.
This post makes some flawed points. The Jazz? They don't have a starting 5, someone is always injured! There's a way better indicator, how many minutes bench players are getting:
Boston - 76.6
Utah - 92.3
Lakers - 90.3
Cleveland - 85.8
San Antonio - 90.8
The "mixed" teams aren't playing well. The problem of our bench players is not how they mesh with each other; it's just that they lack the quality of the guys we had last season. I really don't see how people want to keep Perkins on the court more time. Or Garnett. Pairing Rondo with Tony Allen is complicated and it only works so much. One of the starting wings is generally on the court.
I think it's wise to force these guys to grow and face adversity. Let'em play. Don't bail them out. If I were Doc, I wouldn't even call too many time-outs. Weinman wrote a good article about this recently, I'm too lazy to look for it, but maybe he can bring up the link.
Anyway, it was obvious this would happen: I predicted Doc would get the blame because he was given a flawed roster to work with. One of the easiest predictions I've ever made. Even more amusing is that I read plenty of times that one of the advantages of this season bench would be that we'd be able to play a 2nd unit composed entirely of bench players - you know, because the guys who left couldn't create their own shot and were only good playing off the starters...
TP for 100 percent accuracy - a great post.
The excuses for a bench full of 9th and 10th slot players on this board never ceases to amaze me. We miss the qualities Posey and PJ brought to the floor - desperately. We're short, we lack scoring and we're not as good defensively off the bench in December as we were in June.
Billysan is correct as well. TP to him. Blaming Rivers for his rotations is one of the biggest strawmen I've ever seen floated on this board, and it inexcusably ducks the clear, inescapable reality of our situation.
I don't find rebuilding fascinating enough to craft a post waxing wi
Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.lly about the day Danny will break this up and start all over. I don't find individual players that Danny drafted fascinating enough to work overtime crafting posts to hide their flaws. There's one thing that fascinates me: The pursuit of a World Championship. Anything short of that commitment is a failure from this organization.
And they failed this summer. This bench was screwed up this summer, enough that it threatens the future of this season. Period.
The best thing about this awful road trip is that it clearly exposed the mess Danny's made of this bench. It can no longer be hidden by ekeing out wins over mediocre teams. Being exposed will benefit a championship run in the long term.