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top 9 players
AD, Asik, Ryno, Reke, Gordon, Jrue, Rivers, Salmons and Miller(or Ajinca)
I predict starting line up
Asik/AD/Salmon/Gordon/Jrue
with Reke/Ryno/Rivers
We will ALWAYS keep 3 shooters on the floor to provide spacing for AD and guards
Specialist
Ajinca - length
Rabbitt/Jimmer - 3 pointer
Miller - Emergency D/SF
Young or Withey - Emergency big
inactive
Russ/Young or Withey
If this group play hard on D they're almost as good as any other team.
Dont be surprised if we see Rivers, Jimmer, Evans off the bench playing together a lot. It makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Similar to having roberts rivers and evans off the bench but jimmer can shoot way better than roberts. I think the players off the bench will be determined by who we play and what we need on the court at that time.
Jrue / Austin / Russ
Gordon / Salmons
Reke / Miller
AD / Ryno
Asik / Ajinca / Withey / Young
** Inactive: Jimmer / Babbitt
Depending on the matchups... Jimmer would be active and a big (wither Withey or Young) would go inactive.
Here's my stab at lineups/ rotations.
If I were the coach:
Holiday-Rivers-Russ
Gordon-Jimmer
Evans-Salmons-Miller*
AD-Ryno
Asik-Ajinca-Young-Withey*
* = inactive (no players to dleague)
What I think Monty will do:
Holiday-Gordon-Salmons-AD-Asik
Around 5-6mins Evans enters for Salmons.
Around 8-10mins Ryno enters for Asik (AD moves to center), Rivers enters for Holiday, and Jimmer for Gordon
2nd quarter starts with Rivers-Jimmer-Evans-Ryno-Asik/Ajinca
Rotations for 2nd quarter not going to even guess but around 5 mins our core guys should be in that will be in at the end of the game.
I can see some scenarios where when our backups are in, Russ enters the game and Rivers moves to the 2.
No clue who Monty will have inactive, but I don't think he sends anyone to dleague.
Tyreke and Salmons are the same height so I don't see him starting him over Reke. Maybe if we had more of a true sf he would but I think this was done on purpose by Dell to force Monty to start Reke.
C: Omer Asik (C) 32 minutes
PF: Anthony Davis (PF/C) 38 minutes
SF: Tyreke Evans (SF/SG) 36 minutes
SG: Eric Gordon (SG) 34 minutes
PG: Jrue Holiday (PG) 36 minutes
6: Ryan Anderson (PF) 30 minutes
7: Austin Rivers (PG/SG) 14 minutes
8: Alexi Ajinca (C) 8 minutes
9: John Salmons (SF) 8 minutes
10: Jimmer Fredette (SG/PG) 4 minutes
11: Russ Smith (PG) only plays if necessary
12: Patric Young (C/PF) only plays if necessary
13: Jeff Withey (C) only plays if necessary
Key Players
1. Anthony Davis
2. Tyreke Evans
3. Ryan Anderson
Offensive Gameplan:
Pace: 8
Motion: 6
3pt Usage: 7
Focus: Balanced
Crash Boards: 9
Defensive Gameplan:
Primary Defense: Man
Usage: 8
Secondary Defense: Half Trap
Usage: 6
Full Court Press: 1
Crash Boards: 9
A couple things here:
You have 108 min going to bigs. So that means you have either AD or Ryno at the 3 for at least 12 mins per game. I tend to disagree that will happen, but we will see.
It's rare that a guy is a part of the rotation, but only gets 4 minutes. Not even enough time to get him semi warmed up. How would you see that playing out over the course of the game? 2 mins a half, just at the end of the quarter or something to give guys a rest. Would be odd to put a guy in at like the 9 min mark and take him out at the 7 min mark. Rarely, if ever, see that.
Thanks for the critique. You definitely have some points. I'll give my reasoning, flawed as it may be.
I wanted to give Jimmer the same "only plays if necessary" but thought I would get critiqued for that because Jimmer seems to be well-liked here. So I cut into Austin's minutes, which were originally 18.
Also, I honestly was just really going for the minutes. I didn't think into the actual position designation for those minutes. If that's the case, I'll probably have to scale back someone's minutes, and I don't want to for anyone. The only big not vital to our success is Ajinca, so I'm not sure how we bring minutes down. Maybe give Asik 30 and give Salmons 2 more? Take a few from AD and Ryno?
I think having Asik is going to allow us to do interesting things with AD that we weren't able to do before. I don't think it will be for extended time, but I do think we'll see those three together for at least a handful of minutes. Maybe it doesn't fit with my calculations, but I mostly threw them together.
Perhaps Davis can play the 3 in our big line up of Holiday, Tyreke, Davis, Ryno, Asik
That's the core: AD, Asik, Jrue
Fill in the gaps, add some depth, get the best out of Gordon, and this is a top-5 in the west!