Sit a guy 5-6 games before the playoffs so he is in shape?
That's a huge contradictory statement.
Obviously the intent is to have him sit for a few games now, then come back for a dozen games or so, then go out for a few games, then come back for the last dozen games or so and the playoffs. But I forget you are not a person of much nuance, so that is probably hard to understand, so I will lay it out for you.
We have 47 more games so something like this:
Sit now for 4 more games (43 left) - we go 3-1 in this time
Play for 20 games (23 left) - we go 17-3 in this time
Sit for 6 games (17 left) - we go 4-2 in this time (sitting favors at the same time)
Play last 17 games and the playoffs - we go 14-3 in this time
We finish at 58-14, #1 seed (maybe #2 if the Lakers go off). That is 66 wins in a normal 82 game season.
Or some such combination (remember this means the combinations
can be different). Load management essentially for our guys with a propensity to injury, to get them in tune for the final stretch run and the playoffs.
Now you can argue that they need to have him sit for only 6 games in the middle, and that 15 at the end is the wrong number, it should be 16, or that they should never plan on sitting anyone, or that we need to move 1 more game earlier and 1 more game later, and that is why this is all completely wrong and I am stupid, or whatever other ******** you feel you need to nitpick.
