In the playoffs, rotations get shortened anyway. I would think Oden/Pryzbilla/LMA would take pretty much all the minutes at 4/5. If there's any left over, Outlaw can handle it. I don't particularly like him but he's good enough. There really aren't many good backup 4s anywhere out there. And I think Turiaf would be a horrible fit for you. He couldn't play next to Oden or Pryz without hurting guys like Roy/Rudy/Outlaw who like to get to the rim. Even Miller's game is dependant on getting to the middle. Since none of those bigs can hit a jumpshot, the key is going to be pretty clogged
The good teams never let off the intensity even when the bench is on the floor. The facts are, you can talk all the shit all you want about their bench. The Lakers bench was way better than ours last year. Part of that is intensity. Part of it is playing as a unit. Also amazing is the fact that you mention their guards and perimeter players mostly, but fail to mention that Andrew Bynum and Lamar Odom were coming off the bench for them on the front line, which would be the players that our weak front line would be playing against. If you fail to see the portions of the game last year where Frye would the the softest pile of shit on the court when he was supposed to be a rebounder and interior presence, then I cannot help you. You are hopeless.
I don't see you offering any analysis with any of this, just pseudo Pop Warner football coach exhortations. There wasn't a lack of "intensity"...Frye is just not good. Pendergraph and Cunningham are unlikely to lack intensity...the worry is that they won't have the talent. As far as this goes: You seem a little confused. I wasn't talking about who Portland's backup power forward would be going up against. You responded to my lack of concern over having not-great players on the floor for 13 minutes by saying that "good teams don't take 13 minutes off" implying that playing bad players is "taking time off." I pointed out that the Lakers played plenty of bad players and for more than 13 minutes per game.
I said it would help, but it's far from necessary. You are implying that the season could rest on whoever plays the backup power forward position for 15 MPG. Absolutely ridiculous.
Bynum started every game he played in last season and Odom started the 32 he was out with injuries... if you fail to see this You are hopeless STOMP
I'll tell you where it's NOT ridiculous. In a critical game 7 in any playoff series. Experience, poise and toughness tends to have an major effect. So yes, it could rest of these two cats shoulders.
RoyIsClutch07's modus operandi is beginning to show through. A positive-looking thread title with an "Uh oh! We might be in trouble!" post. Maybe the next evolution of "The Mixum" is being formed this season? Now, in the spirit of fairness, which second-round draft pick played power forward for the Blazers, and was blamed for our being blocked from the NBA Finals in 1990-91 because of a dropped pass? Some people still point to that play as the reason we didn't go to the finals that year.
