6 hours ago
(6 hours ago)Winter Wrote: I'm not seeing much similarity between Max and Klay. Max is very active on both offense and defense, but his perimeter shooting comes and goes. Klay likes to get position for a good jumper, and I suspect most defenses are super-aware of Klay's ability to hit a shot.
I think Max is a great substitution for Klay. He's quicker at this point and is a real change-of-pace for defenses. I like Max closing too, but I like that guard unit as it is.
Yeah, I don't care who starts. I do care who closes though. I think Max gives you more versatility on offense and better defense overall. Of course, you have to take into account how each individual player is playing that night. Just for me, this season, I think Max fits that ideal role for the guard next to DLO in the closing group.
What will be interesting is if we see Kyrie+DLO closing a lot of games when Kai's back healthy. Maybe you can get away with their size limitations with having a massive frontcourt.
Kidd will use so many starting, closing, and just overall crazy rotations that it really doesn't matter what we think should happen. The good thing is, that this team is deep, so they should be able to survive some injuries and experimentation and still be a good regular season team.