To start the season? Dame/CJ/Hood/RoCo/Nurkic (if Hood is ready to start in 4 weeks) Ant/Trent/Jones/Little or Gabriel/Kanter (Collins won't be ready to start the season. Ant may play very little and Dame/CJ roll with the 2nd unit)
Serious Question: Who's guarding LBJ, and who's guarding AD? In the playoffs it was Trent and Wenyen, what about now?
It really would help if we knew when Zach was going be back i i would say early January if he had his operation in September but it's going really depends on when he's back in the fold.
I ask myself the same thing, Nurk? He is 1-8 against Davis in the Playoffs, Collins? He would foul out in the 1st half if he has to guard AD, there are just a few who could guard or at least slow down AD and that's Embiid, Bam, Gobert?, Simmons, Draymond, Giannis and that's probably it. Lebron is unguardable
Trent, Jones, RoCo, Collins. Maybe Little if he becomes a rotational guy. Then we need Nurk to win Harrell matchup and DameCJ dominate their matchups. Its going to be tough, there's a reason the Blazers aren't the title favorite the Lakers are.
I really think that when you play the Lakers you have to put one guy on LeBron, for us that would be RoCo and one guy on AD which would be Zach. For Zach especially but really for both guys you tell them not to worry about shutting them down and not to play too aggressive aka don't get into foul trouble. Just stick with your assignment and be a pest. Then we don't let anyone else on that team score any significant points. All we have to do at that point is have our entire team outscore AD and LeBron which is easier said than done. Not to beat a dead horse but I always will, this strategy doesn't work while playing CJ major minutes because he won't be able to shut down his assignment even if it's a decrepit Wes.
Dame CJ Covington Melo Nurk Second unit ? Trent Hood Jones Kanter dunno what happens to Collins tbh. Maybe he won’t be ready for the season. If he is, he replaces Kanter.
This is not how I would do it, but it's what I expect the rotation to be for games that we are trying hard to win: Dame 36/CJ 12 CJ 23/GT 25 Roco 27/Hood 21 Melo 25/Jones 20/Roco 3 Nurk 30/Kanter 18 No idea where Zach fits into this when he comes back.
10 deep, with Ant, Nas, and CJ2 cheerleading I’d still add Bowman. Zach will eat min from Melo, Jones, and Kanter.
100%, assuming he’s on the roster and healthy. Kanter will be a mix and match guy like he was in Boston.