2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Mapka]

I think your chart is misleading.

Every chart is, I tried to keep it simple, maybe a little bit to much.

While Din and JB are nominal PG, they play more than just 48 minutes combined and you likely don't want to reduce those. So lets round up their minutes to combined 60 (really they play 62), which takes 12 minutes from the SG spot leaving 36.

That´s the exact same way I see it.

Powell and Kleber take all center minutes, DFS and Bertans take all PF minutes.

Just NO! Powell plays 22 minutes and Maxi even less if possible. Bertans soaks the rest and we will see some occasional Luka/DFS PF/C minutes too.

So you have 48 minutes left for Bullock, THJ and Green. THJ and his contract demand 30 minutes per game, which means you have 18 left for Bullock and Green. 

I lost my math, but if I follow yours, there should be enough for Bullock and Green and THJ, if Bertans is only sporadic at PF.

I think it is clear there is one player too many in the rotation. You lose THJ, his minutes are going to Bullock and Green with the bench (FN, Burke, Brown) taking leftovers. Bascially, what we are playing now.

Burkes minutes without Luka, and Brown make my eye sore. FN is for leftovers or emergency defense.

Don´t want to need any of them if someone is hurting a little.

These are minutes Luka is playing.

I have Luka with mid-to-high 30 minutes no matter what position.

I think in the end, the good teams play 8 good players and money is concentrated there. Difficult to be a real contender if you have seizable chunks of the cap in bottom of the rotation.

Luka
Brunson/Dinwiddie
THJ/DFS
Bullock/Powell/Maxi

->8

Green and Bertans: Rookie-contract and sunk cost.

By the way, to play 8 good players regulary, you need 9 good players at least, better 10 or 11.