Prediction: We will Start a Traditional Center

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Seems like the trick is to have the right tools in your kit to match up (or overload) against your opponents' lineup.  For example, the Mavericks never had enough wings to match up with the Clippers.  They just put 5 wings out there and hunted mismatches.

Absolutely. The ability to attack in different ways is really important, imo. 

The mistake people (and teams) make is thinking they can accomplish this by using down-the-depth-chart specialists. To be truly competitive, you kind of need to be able to jumble your top 8-9 guys into different lineups, each resulting in a different play-style, to accomplish that versatility. When "matching up" with your opponent calls for playing someone like Boban in the playoffs against one of the better teams in the league, something has gone terribly wrong.