1999 Blazers were close. Fielded Mouse, Rider, Walt, BG, Sabonis. Greg, JJ, Augmon, Sheed, and Cato all played rotational minutes.
Not even a smidgen of truth to this. Fact is, we didn't think CJ was good enough (yet) to even be Wesley's b/u so we went out and traded a 1st round pick for AA. Us Fans/media completely underestimated Matthews team defense. I'm guessing those inside the team weren't surprised to see our perimeter defense unravel without him. CJ blossomed in that Memphis series, but that was a surprise. Even Olshey said before the trade deadline that CJ will be an excellent player in the league . . . some day. CJ would have been buried on the bench if Wes and AA had stayed healthy. Not because of a conspiracy to keep LA happy, but because they didn't think he was ready.
Teams play with 10 or 11 rotational player all the time. Golden State just did it. Not with 13 in each game.
pretty much everything I said in this thread turned out to be true, just saying to all that thought I was idiotic.
Well not including the repetition and comments that didn't really address anything of substance, roughly 46% of what you said turned out to be true.
