What's yours? Lillard Crabbe Aminu Leonard Davis 2nd unit: McCollum Henderson Harkless Vonleh Plumlee
Starters: Lillard Henderson Aminu Leonard Plumlee Bench: McCollum Montero Crabbe Vonleh Davis Pine riders: Frazier Connaughton Harkelss Kaman (insert pre season superstar... Likely one of Malcolm Thomas or Andre Dawkins)
The "Building for the future" line-up. Dame, CJ, Crabbe, Leonard, Plumlee. The "Maximize wins" line-up. Dame, Henderson, Aminu, Davis, Plumlee.
Lillard / CJ Henderson / CJ Aminu / Crabbe Vonleh / Davis Leonard / Plumlee 3 shooters in the starting lineup, 2 off the bench. Vonleh and Leonard in double high post action, with Aminu and Henderson as mostly cutters and Dame running high pick n pop and coming off of pin downs, staggered screens, and fade screens
I don't think Vonleh will get playing time this year unless he really does well in pre-season. Also not sure about CJ at PG.
I think that Vonleh and Leonard should be on separate units for spacing purposes. And that CJ and Dame be on separate units so we always have one of them on the floor for scoring purposes. So my latest opinion is: Dame, Henderson, Crabbe, Plumlee, Leonard Frazier, CJ, Aminu, Davis, Vonleh Ideally Frazier will move to the 3rd team and we upgrade our back up PG At the end of games there are a lot of different options, (Offense vs Defense) that we can discuss in a different thread.
Dame Henderson Aminu Davis Leonard Unless Vonleh impresses from the jump, in which case he starts instead of Davis.
That looks pretty reasonable. Assuming Vonleh develops my guess is that he moves into a prominent role this year and then the starting lineup sometime in the following year. At that point one or more of Leonard, Davis, Plumlee or Aminu will probably be moved in some kind of consolidation trade. If Vonleh doesn't develop then at least the team should still have some theoretical depth at the 4 spot.
PG: Dame….…......Montero?.....Frazier SG: Henderson.....CJ…. ….........Connaughton SF: Aminu.…....….Crabbe….......Harkless PF: Davis…….....….Leonard........Vonleh C.: Plumlee.…....…Kaman….......Sign FA Seraphin
Seems like there are multiple threads about this but again Dame Henderson Aminu Leonard Plumlee Davis or Plumlee would net about the same result so are pretty interchangeable
I don’t get why some fans have Leonard starting at C. Leonard does not want to play C. Coach says Leonard is a PF, not a C. Leonard does not know what an NBA C does. Leonard gets lost when he plays “C”. Heck yeah, Leonard is qualified to be our starting C.
Ed Davis and Mason Plumlee both played most of their minutes at center last year so everyone who has one of them alongside Leonard probably assumes one of them will be playing center. I just +1'd someone's list but I probably would have listed Leonard at C too simply because he's the tallest and it's hard for me not to think of him as a wimp when I call him a PF.
I agree there is a lot of room for debating the position where some of the players get their minutes, including Davis and Plumlee. However, even the coach has given up on Leonard playing C. That ship has sailed. As far as Leonard being the tallest Blazer, he plays much shorter than his height.
