I was going to post all of the above but on the last part… trade Bojan for who? And how does whoever comes in solve that problem? Trade Bojan for someone who plays less than 30 minutes?First it’s a great problem to have. Second they likely bring Gay along slowly. Third I don’t know… Whiteside and Paschall are both deserving of time. I think you cut Royce’s minutes and maybe Bogeys too to find 4-5 minutes a night to keep Eric engaged. You might selectively pick nights to rest a guy… including Whiteside to experiment with small lineups. Jared Butlers minutes might disappear. Gay may only get 15 minutes a night. Maybe they find out it works and move Bogey?
My brain must be farting.... what are OTs?1. Preserve Royce’s energy.
2. Alternating rest games against every non-playoff team for Conley, Ingles, Gay.
3. If you wanted to get real creative, go to more OTs.
Yeah IDK... I don't think its a real possibility and the mechanics are tricky. It would be an offseason move after retaining Paschall imo. The other scenario is if we had an injury and are all in and felt we needed to balance the roster... that is a tough one to project as we have solid coverage of most injury issues to non-star players.I was going to post all of the above but on the last part… trade Bojan for who? And how does whoever comes in solve that problem? Trade Bojan for someone who plays less than 30 minutes?
Overtimes. Let the young guys soak up minutes in the first 48 and then play a couple OTs with the main guys to get their minutes and get them used to high pressure situations. It’s some crazy 5D sex machine stuff but Quin may be up for it.My brain must be farting.... what are OTs?
What happens when Gay gets back? Paschall deserves to be in the rotation and no one else currently in the rotation deserves to lose minutes. Gay has never played less than 21 minutes a game in his career.
Whiteside and Paschall are our 9th and 10th men when fully healthy. We have two young guards who it is safe to rely on in a pinch. I wouldn't mind adding one perimeter defender but I highly doubt we do it. I'd be looking for a guy you could get on a 1+1 deal and cut Oni. Or cut Oni and do a 10-day dance to manage the tax. Look for a home for Udoka (or just decline his option).But I think we need to do the counter-intuitive thing here. We’re worried about balance with our depth but we should keep adding depth and problems to the pile. Go sign Dunn. It will all make sense in the end.
When Gay gests back Quin should experiment more with small lineups, which is where Paschall can get minutes.
I don't think Jazz will go small 5 unless they have to match defensively. Screens and Rolls having gravity is what Jazz live off.Small ball we’d need to switch and defense is going to be compromised right now with Whiteside there is not a huge need to willingly go small. It’s offense where small ball wrecks teams. If he is the roll man and the floor I spread is tough to stop (theoretically). He can do more on the roll than our centers because he can catch, dribble, pass and opens up passing lanes for bounce passes and such that aren’t there with the bigs. He doesn’t have the high catch and finish radius those guys do.
Small ball 5 just has to survive on defense and get a stop here and there. The big benefit is on offense.
Because of your lack of enthusiasm, I'm going to be adding RHJ to my list of demands.Whiteside and Paschall are our 9th and 10th men when fully healthy. We have two young guards who it is safe to rely on in a pinch. I wouldn't mind adding one perimeter defender but I highly doubt we do it. I'd be looking for a guy you could get on a 1+1 deal and cut Oni. Or cut Oni and do a 10-day dance to manage the tax. Look for a home for Udoka (or just decline his option).
I'm 100% sure they won't go after Dunn though... I'm sorry. They would see JB and Forrest as guys at the same position. I think you should leave the light on for him. Carry the torch.
I don't think Jazz will go small 5 unless they have to match defensively. Screens and Rolls having gravity is what Jazz live off.
May be if teams try to take away the screens like Clippers did against us but then again we could go Gobert/Paschall with the way Paschall defending and attacking the glass and forces teams off small ball.
I really need to see more and think. I haven't been interested much this season.
Jazz also have been doing different things defensively. I have seen some hard hedges that I don't think are the answers but we will see.
There are like 2 minutes of non-garbage time per night from Butler you can swap out somewhere... cut Whiteside's minutes by 3-4 minutes... Royce/Bojan donate 3-4 minutes. Paschall gets 8 minutes, Rudy Gay picks up 16, Whiteside drops to 12 minutes... or 13ish and Rudy shaves a minute or two. We experiment with small ball for a few minutes a night.
There is a little juice to squeeze and then there are going to be injuries and minutes ramp up then. Keep everyone fresh as hell and hopefully engaged.
Me too... my worry is Quin has had such a hard time with managing this at times. He seems to push too hard or be too rigid. We are close to 100%... does Quin have the discipline to sit Mike and/or Joe on the backend of the back to back coming up? Those are big games... do we want to test ourselves or hamstring ourselves in 1 or both? What if you decide to sit Mike and Joe in Milwaukee then lose the Chicago game?I don't know what players actually prefer, but I'd rather see a guy sit one game and play the next instead of chopping up the rotation and finding minutes here or there.