Five for Fighting: Game 5 5th Starter Debate

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***Disclaimer: I do not condone literal brawling, it's a play on words from a band name***

I'm curious to know the opinions of folks on the board, as to who should be the provisional starter in place of Kyrie for Game 5 of our series with the Milwaukee Bucks. I'll give my thoughts below and add a poll for voting.

Alongside Brown, Harris, Durant and Griffin, I would say we need a primary ball-handler to initiate offense from the inbounds to the top of the key. Durant will need to play north of 42 minutes, plus be the primary scorer and last line of defense. He cannot also bring up the ball against intense, physical pressure every time, that's too much for anyone's shoulders.

Second, we need a floor spacer. The Bucks are going to swarm Kevin, and Bruce and Blake don't offer much reliable long-range shooting.

Finally, the tiebreaker is physicality. Partially, it has to do with defense. If we put a significant size/speed/strength/length liability on the floor, Milwaukee will expose it relentlessly. The other part is that, if worse comes to worst, we need bodies to stand toe to toe with bullies, and protect their teammates. It's a shame that this has even factored into the equation for a basketball game, but it's well past time to face facts.

The nominees are: Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, Chris Chiozza, Jeff Green, Mike James, Tyler Johnson and Landry Shamet

Let the debate begin!

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Unfortunately he will start Shamet. Maybe he will have a one of his hot streak games and surprise me, Blake, Durant, brown, Shamet and Harris. I personally would start green and move Durant to the three. And I would constantly have griffin and green set pick and rolls with Durant