I think that means we have to move Melo to 4 and start Gary at 3. Wenyen will obviously get major rotation minutes but Rio will also get more minutes. I just don't think that we can have Hassan and Nurk on the court at the same time when one of the posts for the other team is a player as dynamic as Davis and they use LeBron quite often as a front court player as well. I guess if we went with a 3-2 zone and just close out with our perimeter to contest the threes they can get to and let them try to make the rest, then we could just shut down the paint completely by just sinking Hassan and Nurk in there. That would give up a lot of wide open threes and likely lead to Nurk and Whiteside getting into foul trouble trying to stop guys with a full head of steam going to the hole. Yeah I would probably have a rotation of Dame, CJ, Gary, Melo, Nurk, Wenyen, Rio, Hassan... and Ant will even have to get a little run but that would be the order I would bring guys in and the order of playing time from most to least. Hassan would get more PT if Nurk got in foul trouble but after writing about it I don't think Nurk and Hassan can play together against this team for any sustained period of time it just wouldn't work well on either end of the floor unless (only on offense) Nurk started draining a really high percentage of uncontested threes but then there's still the D that wouldn't work.
Damn Neil for not getting players for two roster spots he was allowed to fill, who the fuck does that? Incredibly stupid. Yeah this was going to be a playoff environment the entire bubble and yeah rotations are shortened in that instance but the there are these things called injuries and the fact that in a playoff environment, no game is expendable. Fuck!
