THE GREEN MACHINE: The Subtle Emergence of Josh Green

[HAguiar95]

I'm not too worried about the fairly small sample of THJ last year.  The whole team (and NBA for that matter) struggled from three the first couple of months of the season.  I do think it would make sense to put him in the opening lineup with McGee, Dorian, Bullock and Luka.  His spacing and quick trigger would fit nicely there, and Din makes more sense in 5 out lineups when he has some space to get the rim.

I know it's just for probably 6 minutes, but it'd be Luka handling the rock the whole time and no other answer since none of the other 4 guys can handle the ball to a decent degree. Still is an option if we want to go full Hero ball since THJ's C&S game is when he's at his best, but I really would run from THJ having a spotlight, specially at the start of games. 

So far I'd go with a 10-man lineup of:

Luka, Spencer, DFS, Wood (roughly 30-35 mpg) - Yes, an overreliance on Spencer, since we don't have another capable ballhandler. I'm expecting Wood to excel here in a 2nd option role given his tools. Shouldn't have to mention Luka/DFS leading in minutes.

THJ, Maxi, Bullock (roughly 23-27 mpg) - Reducing Bullock a bit to give light for Green's emergence (title of the thread). THJ comes back to his 6th man role coming back from injury and Maxi replies his good role in past seasons.

Green, McGee, Ntilikina (roughly 8-16 mpg) - Here we'll have a good input if Green belongs. McGee is a scratch for me, but worth a shot since we already paid the man (DP could eat this role, but I guess we needed the shot-blocking/rebounding ability now that we have a bunch of switchable defenders.

Leaves as next man up mentality:

Hardy (guard)
Bertans (forward) 
DP (center)
Pinson/Dorsey (cheer/G-League)

Maybe I'm underrating Bertans and should put him in place of Green or Frank, but personally I just want to play youger guys in our defensive oriented system.