darrendaye wrote:Fencer reregistered wrote:The first tranche of minutes at the 1-3 go to Brown, White, Pritchard and -- when Tatum is healthy again -- whatever usage Tatum gets playing next to double bigs. In that model, Simons won't be worth keeping.
The next tranche is a competition between Hauser, Scheirman, Walsh, Gonzalez et al. If Hauser doesn't dominate that competition, it might well be appropriate to trade him.
Are you suggesting that only one from that next tranche group can get rotation minutes when Tatum returns and assuming Simons does not? And how would you qualify dominate? As a designated shooter he is almost certainly won't lose that competition, where else can the rest of the group catch up and make Hauser expendable?
Maybe I undercounted by one guy.
To keep it simple, assume there are 3*48 = 144 minutes for those guys, 3 of whom are starters getting 30+ minutes each. That leaves room mainly for a Sixth Man plus another rotation player, with everybody else getting scraps or injury-replacement roles at best.
I guess we could say that Jrue was traded for Simons and now Simons basically gets Jrue's minutes, with roles otherwise going through fairly minor adjustments. Or if Simons is traded than there's room for at least one rotation player next to Hauser.
