Anybody see or hear Locke talk about Ingles starting and coming off the bench?
Basically he said the Conley, Mitchell, Ingles, Bogey, Gobert lineup when they first signed Bogey was what he envisioned the Jazz using but it did not work (he used numbers to back that up) in that first year so Quin had to adjust and rarely used it since. BUT he did say based on the last 2 games he thinks he might revisit that lineup at times but not by starting Joe.
He did have some logic to it as well, I mean the last 2 games versus NOP and POR they are not great defensive teams AND that if you kept starting Joe and having him chase around CJ McCollum and Ingram night after night, or LBJ then PG like O'Neal is doing he'd be worn out way too fast to continue to be effective (like what everyone complains Playoff Joe looked like).
So that did give at least an alternative of possibly seeing more minutes with that stating lineup with out actually starting Ingles.
One thing not brought up was in his first 2 starts (CHI and ORL) Joe was pretty bad both defensively and offensively, so out of 4 games starting you have 2 bad games and now 2 good games, so small sample size and also the difference being first 2 games he was replacing Conley. I don't remember his start against ATL when he was in for Mitchell so at best he was probably average, neither good or bad.
Lastly I would like to add that I do think O'Neal can start but that Quin could be more flexible with his minutes, if he is going well and having a good shooting night or a noticeable defensive impact keep him out there getting his 30+min average. But on nights when Ingles, Gay or Bogey have it going they should eat some of his minutes, for reasons already stated in this thread. Basically betwen SF and PF those 4 (Bogey, O'Neal, Ingles and Gay) should get all those minutes and whoever is running better that night gets a few extra minutes.