Revived wrote:bwgood77 wrote:Revived wrote:I think he should always play imo. He’s one of the players that knows his role well and plays it perfectly.
Similar to the posts above, definitely don’t expect a win tonight. Even a blowout loss wouldn’t be shocking or even disappointing. Just hope they come out of the game without any injuries.
A blowout loss would be very disappointing. This team fears me much more than Utah in the playoffs and if seed stay where they are we meet them in the 2nd round.
Pretty sure most people would be disappointed in a blowout loss. I don't expect it the way we play. Not sure it's happened all year and we are playing our best ball.
If Beverley and Ibaka play, and if George isn't ailing too much, they are a lot better than they've been too, so we'll see.
We wouldn’t be playing them on the 2nd night of a back to back in the playoffs though. A blowout or any type of loss to them here wouldn’t mean much in terms of how we match up with them in the playoffs.
But yeah I also don’t think we get blown out anyway and have a chance to even win tonight as well. I was just using it in a hypothetical way.
I guess you worry about b2b games more than I do. We have done well on them. I think last year we won a b2b with the Clips and Utah or something like that and had another one with Utah and Denver where we won one and the other went into OT and we nearly won.
This year we are 7-2 on the 2nd of b2b games. 1 of our losses was a double OT game where Cam, Booker and Ayton were all out in some or all the OTs....and the previous night went into OT.
The only other loss was a 1 pt loss to Orlando...after playing Miami the night before.
We also have a ton of depth. If we only played 7 or 8 players or something it might be a big deal, or if we were an old team prone to injury.
Not sure why you are always so worried and want to rest players. Not THAT many players rest overall and usually it is due to being cautious with injuries...and this has only been a trend at all since the Spurs started it about 7-8 years ago when their core got old.
The previous 50+ years it wasn't something teams did. If you had 4 games in 5 nights it might be more understandable if you had a slight injury to sit a second game out before the next b2b.
College teams play like 3 or 4 days in a row in their conference tourneys.