Mike Brown's Rotations?

[TheOUTLAW]

That's what I've tried to explain to many people. The Cavs are basically LeBron and a whole bunch of role players. That is why it can be very difficult for us to trade players since they each bring something the team needs and very often that is something nobody else on the team provides.

[Cleveland Fan]

In the play-offs Lebron will have to play some SG. look who we have. Parker starts, West & young players. With the log-jam at forward it may be best to give Lebron time at SG.

[landphil]

In the play-offs Lebron will have to play some SG. look who we have. Parker starts, West & young players. With the log-jam at forward it may be best to give Lebron time at SG.

Lebron wont play SG, there is no reason for him to. If anything, west or Mo will play SG and Lebron will play the point. The cavs dont get any benefit out of playing Lebron at SG, or at least none that I see?

The rotation that Mike Brown used for a brief period today got me thinking about a nice rotation I would like to see. I think we should pound the ball into shaq and jamison early in the game (unless we start losing control then obviously lebron has to get more touches) but today he really didnt touch it much in the first quarter and it worked cause Jamison and shaq controlled the touches and kicked it out to shooters who knocked some down (parker only today) but most of the time will knock one or 2 more of those down. Then he went and sat Mo early in the first along with Shaq to get them a rest as they became kinda the second unit and Jamison and Lebron handled the last 5 minutes of the 1st quarter in terms of running the offense through them (and delonte too who seems to be pretty assertive when he gets a shot this year). When they sat at the beginning of the second quarter, Shaq and Mo had the offense run through them quite a bit and delonte even got in on it too.

I think if utilized right this will allow shaq to dominate games early, get big men in foul trouble, allow for some open 3's early in the game and open more lanes with more free throws coming later for lebron and jamison as they attack the hoop. It would seem to me to prevent a large dropoff in second unit that we saw last year and at times this year.