Post#1112 » by FriedRise » Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:34 pm
Green being back is huge, because even though he's only 6'4, he plays much bigger than he is and was the undisputed starting 4 that Billy chose right after PW went down. He needs to stay healthy tho for the next 6-8 weeks.
So we pretty much have the starting lineup set, and these are the guys who will be playing 30-35 mpg every night:
Ayo / Zach / DeMar / Green / Vooch
The second unit is where things start to get a little dicey. Because we really only have 3 NBA type players in Coby (6th man), TBJ, and Bradley. The last two there are questionable because they're more than capable of having Tony Snell-like games where they completely disappear. Our next best player after that is Matt Thomas, so our second unit might look something like:
Coby / Thomas / TBJ / DeMar / Bradley
Should be able to score, but they're not stopping anybody. If someone's having a rough game, we have the option to swap out Hill for Thomas, Cook for Bradley, or McKinnie for TBJ, but all these guys are on the contract that they're on for a reason. That Caruso injury really sucks because his swiss-army-ness would've been able to make any of these lineups work (btw, **** Grayson Allen).
If we get someone who can take minutes away from Thomas and TBJ, I think we can ride this out. In a way, I wish that Stanley Johnson didn't catch COVID when he was on his 10-day contract with us, because that's a nice defensive wing we could've used right now (he just got a 2-year deal from the Lakers).
