As I said earlier, a serious Butler injury is my nightmare scenario. Dunleavy's important, but he's neither a top 3 offensive or defensive player on the team. Also, unless and until Rose becomes a stud again, Butler's the best player on the team. Of course, Thibodeau can win with girls so maybe I should.be more sanguine.
As I said, picture the rotation without Dunleavy. They can move Jimmy to SF and play Kirk, who is a lot less than Dunkeavy. Or they'd have to play a lot of McSmell.
The Cavs passed us for 4th seed. We are now in 5th, and no longer first in our division. The 93-94 team lost in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
You know, I don't think they could play Snell. He's not ready to play extended minutes without being disruptive. GarPax would pull some vet off the waiver wire and Thibs would immediately start playing him forty minutes a game.
