Remember this season when Dame missed some games? We got better, players expanded their roles, Dame came back and we are a better team.
Yes, and I think they'll be a better team for it. They've learned from Butler but they rely on him too much. I'm not saying that they'll have a better record than us, I'm talking about player and team development.
They won big tonight without him....Jamal Crawford will have to step up big time and not get gassed with big minutes
Picture right now doesn't look pretty for Minnesota as they have a lot of tough games coming up and if it takes at least 6 weeks then he could miss the rest of the regular season. I think they play 12 of those games against playoff level teams.
You took two quotes but the original was blaming Thibs. Now i totally agree that when you have played 4 games in 5 nights and you are pushing 40 mins a game you have a problem but that simply was not the case and Butler is playing 37 which is actually less than he averaged over his years in Chicago. where he pushed 38 for a couple years. This year Lillard is averaging 36.6 so in this case yeah that .4 mins a game does add up. Now lets look at career average. Butler is at 32.9 as he had a couple years at the beginning of his career that were much lower. Dame however is sitting at a career average of 36.4. Now if we are gonna blame Thibs for an injury of a player that was Non-contact right after the All-Star break i would assume it's time to start sitting Lillard at the end of games because he is playing too much???? That might not have gone over so well last night in Phoenix i presume. ......Just Sayin.
Exactly and the Bulls have basically conceded to tanking by sitting players at various times and going with young players. They have a lot of tough games coming up against some of the top teams.
