05-19-2025, 09:17 AM
The final four will be an interesting test of Big vs Small
You have two teams that play a big 3-man rotation at 4/5. MIN Gobert-Randal-Naz and NYK Anunoby-KAT-Robinson. DAL matches up well with these teams with a playoff rotation of AD-Lively-PJW
IND plays medium with the starters getting heavy minutes. Bryant and Toppin are low minute guys and they play some wings off the bench. Siakam-Turner-Bryant
OKC can start decent size but their bench is all guards plus Jaylin Williams who barely plays. Chet-Hartenstein-Williams
The Thunder are obviously a difficult matchup when they go small. You need great guard play to beat their ball hawking point of attack defenders, and you need bigs who can both stay on the floor defensively and punish smalls in the paint.
No surprise but the playoffs seem to be telling us PJW's positional versatility makes him a guy DAL absolutely needs to retain, while Gafford is a valuable luxury that should be shopped for guard help.
You have two teams that play a big 3-man rotation at 4/5. MIN Gobert-Randal-Naz and NYK Anunoby-KAT-Robinson. DAL matches up well with these teams with a playoff rotation of AD-Lively-PJW
IND plays medium with the starters getting heavy minutes. Bryant and Toppin are low minute guys and they play some wings off the bench. Siakam-Turner-Bryant
OKC can start decent size but their bench is all guards plus Jaylin Williams who barely plays. Chet-Hartenstein-Williams
The Thunder are obviously a difficult matchup when they go small. You need great guard play to beat their ball hawking point of attack defenders, and you need bigs who can both stay on the floor defensively and punish smalls in the paint.
No surprise but the playoffs seem to be telling us PJW's positional versatility makes him a guy DAL absolutely needs to retain, while Gafford is a valuable luxury that should be shopped for guard help.
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