Trade & FA 2024-25:

[michaeltex]

Whenever we talk about minutes, few factor in injuries.  I like to view each position as having 4,000 minutes in a season.  Below is how many minutes our starters played last year.
                Gms       Mins       Total      Remain
Luka        70           38           2,625    -1,375
Kyrie        58           35           2,030    -1,970
Klay         77           30           2,287    -1,713
PJ            73           30           2,219    -1,781
Lively       55           24           1,293    -2,708

This leaves about 3,400 minutes for guards, 3,400 minutes for forwards, and 2,700 minutes at center.

If you take Hardy, Exum, and Grimes (only playing guard minutes) there's more than enough.
                Gms        Mins          Total
Hardy          73           14           993
Exum          55           20           1,089
Grimes        51           20           1,025
                                               3,107

Forwards...
                Gms        Mins          Total
Naji             66           19           1,254
Omax          40            8               336
Maxi            43           20              873
                                                2,463

We have a deficit for minutes at forward.

Very nice breakdown!

A couple of comments/questions...

Need to include Gafford's minutes as I view he and DLive as a two-headed center, at least to start this season.

Can we make an assumption yet that Omax gets more burn? more minutes and for more games? 8 minutes in half the games isn't going to grow his skills. Aren't we hoping for him to take a step up this year?

I want to say Maxi's usage will increase, but I waver on that. He's had some weird injuries the last few years, and I don't know if it's age related or just bad luck.

The team want's to dial back Luka's minutes a bit. Does anyone have an idea of what that means? What about Kyrie's minutes?

Can we make the case that some of Luka's minutes will be played as a PF? at least on defense?