Yeah that’s called an nba season. Players get hurt. Players get benched. Coaches expirement. It happened last season and it’ll happen this season. Never claimed we’ll have a ten man rotation the whole season so I don’t get your point.
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I count ten players Terry relied on to carry Portland through the season. Don’t see why that would change this year, especially when he has more options.
Maybe we have different definitions of what a "10-man rotation" is?
My whole point was that, in my opinion, we didn't have a 10-man rotation to start the season like some people claim. I went through to box scores to see if these people were right or not. Obviously, it depends on definition, because there were times where we would situationally play a 10th man 3-7 minutes in a game because of non-regular circumstances (foul trouble, playing against Cousins, a blowout, etc.), but that doesn't count as being a part of a regular rotation to me. In many games to start the season, we only had 9 players play, and I was providing box scores from the start of the season as evidence. If we had a 10-man rotation, I'd expect 10 people to play every game to start the season regardless of circumstance, but again, that's just based on my definition of a "10-man rotation".
This makes me think that we'll have a regular 9-man rotation at most (A bench of Curry, Turner, Collins, and another big (Meyers?)). I could even see us going with a regular 8-man rotation then playing a 9th player situationally depending on the matchup. I've had a lot of people say I'm wrong and that we usually start the season with a 10-man rotation, so I was providing box scores as a counterpoint.
I'm not saying we won't rely on 10 people, because injuries happen and guys steal minutes. I just define a "rotation" on the minutes specific players are playing over a current stretch of multiple games, and 10 players weren't consistently playing at the same time during the same stretch of games.
We also didn't have a steady backup G like Curry, as Pat and Napier were bench-warmers the season before. We also had two rookie bigs who were battling for minutes, and now that one of them has won (Collins), I don't expect variation there throughout the season. I think our lineup is more set than last years and we'll see less experimentation and a maximum of 9 players playing regular minutes. That's my whole point.
