Anyone who goes on Rome or is proud of the fact that he calls his listeners "clones" is a tool, which is enough said.
As for keeping two distinct units...that just never happens at any level of basketball. The eight man-rotation is sort of the golden standard. Starting PG, SG, SF, PF, C. Backup G (PG/SG), Wing (SG/SG) and Big (PF/C). Assuming players stay decently healthy, this allows everyone to get a good amount of playing time. If you look at teams that spread minutes around more, then players just don't get into a good rhythm.
For the sake of practice I understand it, but in reality Basketball is not like other sports. Except for garbage time, you don't have all your second or third stringers on the floor like you might with hockey.
However, the one issue with the 8-man rotation is that if a player gets hurt, you need depth. We are lucky to have a good amount of depth everywhere except at the SF position. With Roy, Blake, Rudy, Bayless and Sergio we have five good guards. With Frye, Aldridge, Pryz and Oden we have four quality bigs. Martell, Outlaw and Batum are the SF...and we see how the injury impacts it.
Anyways, you never substitute more than two players at a time. The false reality that there are two different static lineup never sticks and I don't know who would have thought that it is something that would actually happen.
