Roy and Bayless being both good at attacking the rim will help so much, and hopefully we have a good shooter at SF from 3 point land (Rudy, Webster, Outlaw) along with getting Aldridge and Oden opportunities. Bayless shot terrible tonight, but he was a main reason people were open as he gave up the ball which lead to nice ball movement.
More than a few of today's regulars will be stronger role players come playoff time. This is becoming a special team.
I don't know what we would do if everyone was healthy tomorrow. How do you justify removing Juwan Howard from the starting line up?
Yup. No chemistry issues when everybody knows their role and there aren't 10 (mostly rookie scale) guys jockeying for 5 open spots. too much depth is like too much pressure in boiler -- explosive and damaging. We need a few of our boys back, but probably not everybody. Consolidation is still a must (at some point).
I wonder if having everyone back will make it worse? Minutes?????? Substitution problems? If everyone stays pulling together they will be awesome, if not it could be a problem
Oh come on. You know that we were playing easy teams, and not looking great in those games. This team really changed the moment Joel got hurt. I don't know if it was simply something mentally that kicked in, or if it perhaps has to do with the fact that we now have a 5th legit threat on offense.
I knew Portland had really good depth. I didn't know just how good that depth was. Also, who needs black and white units? Let them all play together.
Trade, that is all we can do. If we don't trade Blake and/or Outlaw we have to let at least Blake walk because that impeded in one of Bayless/Rudy getting minutes, and quite frankely, Blake won't be the answer if at PG if we want to win a Championship. Maybe as a back-up, but I like Miller as a backup to Bayless. Not everyone will get minutes and someone will come out publicly with it most likely being Bayless or Rudy if they aren't getting time.
