08-19-2024, 02:21 PM
(08-19-2024, 01:22 PM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: How can you count on Luka or Klay to get minutes at PF? If you do the math, we need 1,700 minutes of backup PF. That's a hole that can't be schemed. If you give Naji half his minutes last year for PF, you're still lacking 1,100 minutes. You can't count on Maxi.
Klay is never playing the 4 in that scenario as he is always playing with either Luka or Naji.
Why can't Luka play PF defensively? He is bigger than most of the folks we are talking about, including our current starting PF. The 5 man lineup with the 13th most minutes was Maxi/Luka/Green/Timmy/Kyrie. Who do you think was guarding the opposing PF in that lineup (which was +17 net rating in small sample). Is something like Lively/Luka/Klay/Grimes/Exum really that bad? You can totally get away with that.