Gravy wrote:Wildcat wrote:I'm not hip with the uptick here. Why are the vocal few dogging the trade with a hurt roster?
There needs to be a sticky at the top of each page reminding everyone that three starters are out and Bojan is not supposed to be in this role.
What is his role supposed to be? That is what confuses me about this trade if Bojan and Burks can't be helpful now. I don't think any of the players that are out due to injury are replaceable with the players that were brought in. If we do not have health we are not going anywhere. When the team was healthy the starting lineup was fine. We had no issue with guys playing off of Brunson and Randle. The biggest weakness were the non-Brunson minutes and lack of creation ability in the second unit. Why do we have to wait until the starters get back to see some improvement in the non-Brunson bench minutes?
In January the rotation seemed to be heading to the starters plus a bench rotation of McBride/Grimes/Hart/(OG)/Precious.
I guess Thibs could run out a similar 9 man rotation at full strength with McBride or Burks/Hart/Bogy/(OG)/Mitch or Precious but that would require someone in that unit to be a consistent offensive initiator. McBride and Burks have not proven they could do that. Can Bogy? Maybe swapping out Grimes will make that unit more effective. I'm just curious to what you think about it.
It may not matter much in the playoffs since Brunson will likely be on the floor for most minutes but the combination of Brunson and Bogy on the floor together possibly with another average to poor defender concerns me a bit. OG and our bigs can be incredible defensively but there is a breaking point to what they are able to cover up.