Tentative Blazers Rotation?

[blazerkor]

I keep seeing you guys posting minutes next to guys names, trying to spread them out. If I'm not mistaken it will be VERY rare that more than 9 guys even play. Maybe 10. Am I wrong?

I think you're right on. Unless it's a blowout or we have serious injury problems we have 10 really good guys that will be fighting for every minute among themselves. That doesn't mean Stotts won't tighten up the rotation to under 10, I just think we have 10 really good players this season. Nas, Ant, Giles, Elleby and whoever else we get will be on the bench.

 

[TBpup]

I keep seeing you guys posting minutes next to guys names, trying to spread them out. If I'm not mistaken it will be VERY rare that more than 9 guys even play. Maybe 10. Am I wrong?

Quite correct Jeff Fahey.

Dame(36)/CJ (12) (Simons, spot minutes here and there, especially early in the season)
CJ (24) /Trent (24)
Hood (32) /DJJ (16) (Is Hood ready to start the season?)
RoCo (32) /Melo (16)
Nurkic (30)/Kanter (18)

And that is with Collins not back to start the season.

Little, CJEll, and Giles get blowout or foul trouble minutes.

 

[BonesJones]

Bro there's not even close to being enough minutes to go around. We might have the best 10th-13th men in the league.

 

[Natebishop3]

Right now I'd say

Dame
CJ
DJJ
RoCo
Nurk

Melo
GTJ
Hood
Collins
Kanter

There are 240 total minutes available. I'm not even looking at positions. I'm going off what I think each player should be playing.

34 for Dame
34 for CJ
30 for Nurk

That leaves 142

Roco 30
DJJ 28
Melo 24
GTJ 24

That leaves 36 minutes.

Kanter 18
Hood 18

I think Collins gets Kanter's minutes when he comes back. Maybe drop Nurk to 28ish so he stays fresh. I think it depends on the matchup.

 

[SIeepwalker]

With the depth we have this season Stotts needs to be able to keep Dame's minutes somewhere around 35 for the regular season

 

[Natebishop3]

With the depth we have this season Stotts needs to be able to keep Dame's minutes somewhere around 35 for the regular season

I'd like to see it around 34 minutes for both him and CJ.

 

[Scalma]

With the depth we have this season Stotts needs to be able to keep Dame's minutes somewhere around 35 for the regular season

unless Simons takes a jump, I can’t see that happening, just out of necessity. There’s a huge drop off in the way the offense flows when Dame is off the court. I get that he’s Dame, but CJ as the backup point has never worked well. Doesn’t even make sense, because he looks fine as the lead guard when Dame is out. Olshey better be right about Simons, because if not, it’ll be an issue and Dame will be forced to play 38 minutes again.