Rapcity_11 wrote:slothrop8 wrote:Rapcity_11 wrote:
The problem with not starting JV that I’ve been thinking about lately is that most teams still start traditional bigs. If JV isn’t getting those starting minutes, when is he playing? I know you want him in with the Lowry + bench unit (something I’ve come around to wanting to try), but what other lineups do you want him in?
Assuming DeMar is pretty much going to play almost the entire 1st and 3rd and half the 2nd and 4th - I'd like to see us play JV something like the last 4 mins of the first and first 9 of the second, and maybe the last 5 of the 3rd and first 7 of the 4th - understanding of course it won't always work out that neatly. I imagine Casey will want to get him out for the last 5 of the 4th - and that gets JV 25 mins where he only overlaps with DD for maybe half of them. Still lots of bench bigs roaming around those minutes and the Jeffersons, Monroes, Kanters, tend to inhabit some of those spaces. It's never going to work out that neatly - but that's sort of how I'd try to juggle it - knowing matchups might skew it from time to time.
What I'd actually like to do is juggle the starting group depending on who that opposing C is - but that's never going to happen and isn't worth even talking about. And what I'd really do if DD's trade value wasn't probably the single most important thing for this franchise right now is start JV and play him roughly 28 mins bring DD off the bench for 20 mins a night and try to never have them overlap at all - and that's so ludicrous a suggestion in terms of its possibility that we can all just pretend I never said it.
First of all, agreed on juggling the starters based on the opponent. Also agreed on it never happening.
Wouldn’t it be better to just play JV the first ~6 mins of each Q? He gets tired quickly and ends up playing the same amount of minutes with DD in either scenario. Playing him ~13 mins in a row doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
I always thought that the end of the 2nd quarter was the best time to play serviceable players that are either:
a) not very well-conditioned
b) exert extreme effort (i.e. high energy guys that are going to outwork everyone for good 5 minute spurts, and then have diminishing returns)
With the longest break in the game right after the end of the 2nd quarter, this seemed logical to me.
