Jalen 'Can He Play Alongside Luka?' Brunson

[DanSchwartzgan]

Brunson has been given the JET role now...stagger with Luka and join him in closing the game...I think this is a winning situation for the team...

So, Richardson is Stephenson.  Brunson is kind of a Terry/Barea hybrid, which means THJ gets some minutes at SG and some at SF.  It isn’t exactly like Kidd/Terry/Stephenson/Barea, but Luka/Brunson/Richardson/THJ covers a lot of the same bases (except we don’t really replicate Kidd’s D).

I can see...to some extent...KP/Maxi being a modern era Dirk/Chandler.  We certainly do have a committee of backup centers after that.  What we haven’t really had is that three besides Finney that can also play some four.  That 2011 team got it’s Dirk backup minutes from Matrix, but Butler/Peja also got 3/4 minutes.  We are kind of short there in a substantial way.  The 2011 team played an 8 man rotation plus a few minutes from a backup center.  We are still shy that 8th man between Maxi and DFS (whether that be a starter for one of them or a bench player of very high quality).