I haven't felt that we'd make any big move (and my definition of big move here is anything that sends out one of our current rotation guys) for quite a while. Ainge throws a variable in that that I am totally uncertain on, but presuming no big move in terms of a trade, I'm also going to add on that we won't make any addition around the edges, either. Or at least that if we make that addition, it won't be relevant and it will effectively be like we didn't make that move. That's not to say it couldn't be a beneficial move, but we often talk about Quin and the sex machine, but really he's a guy who is very rigid and wants it scheduled and he wants very specific positions at very specific times and there can be no variance. Almost like the psychological profile of a serial kiIler. I believe there's a lot to glean from the Shaq situation. It's not to make a savior argument. We watched a fairly epic collapse, losing three straight games to Denver, in large part due to a complete inability to make anything difficult for Jamal Murray. We continued to see such trends and bringing in Shaq gave at least an option off the bench. Not even a "hey, you gotta play this guy 20 mpg" option, but just something that you could at least toy with over a season. We didn't see that. It wasn't that we got a small sample size. We didn't get anything at all.. There wasn't once that there was any experimentation at all of him being a guy you could bring in for any defensive purpose. It defaulted to garbage-time PG in all of his whopping 56 minutes played. All of them. Over the season, there was never any different approach Quin would take other than defaulting Royce as the "perimeter stopper." We played a series against LAC where we watched what Reggie Jackson did. We watched him effortlessly get to his spots and light us up. We watched it happen over the course of four straight losses with literally no adjustment. We also saw no utilization or experiementation with Ilyasova when it was apparent that Favors was nailed to the floor.
I can not conceivably think of any possible move in terms of signing that causes Quin to deviate in any fashion from what he does. If he isn't going to experiment even to an infinitismally small degree over the course of an entire season, and won't make any adjustment in a four-game, season-ending collapse, then he sure as **** isn't adjusting now or especially in the post-season to something he 'has not even tested out.'
