How will Coach McHale split up the minutes?

[shrink]

For what players do you see the biggest changes?

[C.lupus]

My crystal ball says Love, McCants, and Telfair will get bigger minutes. Ollie should get less and Cardinal will be relegated back to his seat on the bench.

[TDWOLVESFAN]

I see two scenarios - McCants actually plays hard both ways and stops pouting. He also will need to stop the attitude of he is God's gift to basketball. He is talented but lacks the desire to play with in a team structure. He wants his minutes and stats above anything else including winning.
Jefferson 24 / Love 12 / Collins 12
Love 18 / Jefferson 12 / Smith 10 / Gomes 8
Gomes 12 / Miller 18 / Carney 18
Miller 8 / Foye 18 / McCants 22
Telfair 30 / Foye 12 / Ollie 4 - you might even see Miller play some point

In the second scenario - McCant's continues do do little on defense and jacks up quick bricks - then he will be relegated to the bench and we will see the trade for Wallace - at that point it would be:
Jefferson 26 / Love 12 / Madsen + Booth 10
Love 16 / Jefferson 10 / Smith 10
Wallace 32 / Carney 8 / Miller 8
Miller 20 / Carney 10 / Foye 18
Telfair 30 / Foye 12 / Ollie 6

[prefuse73]

if we get wallace things will change...but I hope for this distribution:

Big Al (36) - Love (12)
Love (18) - Smith (24) - Gomes (6)
Miller (30) - Gomes (18)
Carney (20) - McCants (24) - Miller (4)
Foye (36) - Telfair (12)

Give Carney a chance to start simply because he is athleic and a stronger defender than our other wings. Foye has shown that he is more effective with the ball in his hands and should start at pg. Miller can hang with SF defensively better than SG. Love gets 30 mpg. McCants gets enough time to show charlotte something. Gomes role is reduced. I feel he is simply not athletic enough to be a starting SF and too small to play pf. He really should be trade bait with McCants. He would be great as a 7th or 8th man on a contender.

Just a thought.

[Devilzsidewalk]

kinda curious about this myself, also I'm curious as to what positions guys get played at. Will tell a lot as far as how McHale was thinking when he drafted guys.

I have no basis for this, but I'd assume we'll see less Ollie, less of Foye at SG, less Gomes at PF, and less small ball in general. And more McCants and Love. Carney might get some more burn too, we'll have to see.

McHale strikes me as a traditionalist who plays relatively normal lineups, and simplifies the game and lets the talent do the talking.

[4ho5ive]

I think the Gerald Wallace ship sailed a while ago. And if we want to shop Gomes, i think he will be needing about 30 mpg so he can keep his stats up and garner more in a trade

[deeney0]

Regardless of minutes, I hope Miller and Love both get more shots/touches, and that these don't come out of what Al is getting, they should come out of Foye, McCants, and everyone else.

[revprodeji]

stop the wallace talk...it is going no where.

[the_bruce]

Jefferson 30 / Love 18
Love 24 / Jefferson 6 / smith 18
Miller 26 / Gomes 22
McCants 30 / Miller 10 / Foye 8
Foye 28 / Bassy 20

..and carney\collins getting spot minutes

I see it as 2 primary lineups....(al + shooters, which I thought was the lineup theyd send this year)

Al\love\Miller\McCants\Foye (which we start the first and close the 4th with)

[revprodeji]

Al/Love/Gomes/Miller/Foye with Shad and cookie getting huge burn off the bench. McHale is going to play the guys that he brought in wanting to prove they have value and worth.

It should be an interesting style of ball. Remember that Mchale is not position-specific. He speaks about "players" not "positions" he wants uptempo, but an identity around Big Al.

[TMo519]

One thing I liked about McHale and his philosophy on offense is that he stresses finding the mismatch and just attacking it. I love that kind of stuff and I don't think the Wolves even went about doing that under Wittman. They'd just run their sets and whatever happened, happened. I hope McHale can execute what he says.