My first thought this morning about who should start, was Meyers, with Zach off the bench. Then I remembered we have Kanter. He frankly doesn't even register for me. I seem to recall though when he was signed, the brass and Terry were talking about him as a starting quality center. You know he's going to start. Le Sigh.
Double like. Not playing to win is for losers. We don't want our young players, or any players, to think like that.
That is true....but are any bigs really that good on D out on the perimeter? For many match ups you might as well have Aminu, Hark or Jake out there. Skal is an interesting thought though. He looks pretty agile for his size. Maybe he can help.
His absence will be filled by committee. Referenced when Caron Butler (a key contributor for that Dallas team in 2011) went down in Jan with a season ending injury and how he'll try to draw experience from that to keep the team focused. Said he'll have a talk with the team when they get to CHI tonight. Nothing else of significance. Think he's still in shock like the rest of us.
It's nice to know that in times like these we still have people that can take shots at the team using the injury. Like was this really worth quipping about?
A friend of mine tweeted about how life kicked him in the balls today because his work truck had a flat, and then his spare also had a flat. I asked if his truck was Bosnian. Too soon? Probably. I consider it gallows humor.
I think it will be Kanter that starts but I like see Zach get big minutes though because he been playing a lot better. But if I would be ask if Zach could start and I say yes. Remember when he started that 1 game against I believe Miami he did very well and he never left rotation after that game. But the thing everyone has to remember with CJ and Nurk out we got one consistent scorer that's Dame. The other 4 starters are not consistent scorers. That why I think he will go with Kanter. Now if he starts Zach and I would replace layman with Hood or even Curry.
I guess E.T will be asked to score more than 5 pts per game. I'm so pissed that a guy like E.T. is still on our roster, sucking $$$ and contributing nothing. I mean ... why do we pay this guy? I know he is not a center ... but damned ... why is he so useless? Can we sill pick up a guy off the street?
Ok I had to take some time to listen to music and just kind of chill, when it comes to this stuff I'm in a sad mood. Here's my idea for how they move forward if the goal is to have playoff success this year. They're missing their big so they need to make up for it with length. You Start Dame (because duh?), Hood at the 2, Harkless at the 3, Aminu at the 4 and Zach at the 5. This gives you length and switchability, they will struggle on offense at times. You shorten your rotation, your margin for error is almost none now. So CJ, Curry and Kanter are your scoring punch from the bench and all except for trying to exploit certain matchups, you probably don't want to go more than 8 deep. You can't afford to take a risk that Evan Turner is going to go into turnover mode, and you maybe give ML and Jake short spurts here or there to see if they have it on a particular night, but the leash should be short.
That works for me. My only concern from my OP is that there is not a lot of offense from that starting front line. Which is why I suggested Jake at a forward spot. (In place of either Hark or Aminu) But if you shorten the bench like Terry often does, I guess it doesn't make much difference who starts from those 8. They will all get major minutes. Of course that does not address this road trip since CJ will not be there.
I really want Layman to play, but man he went from a month of looking like he was breaking out to a month of forgetting where the basket is, he makes some great defensive plays here and there but his overall defense just isn't good enough. I really think they just have to stop playing ET he will lose them games with the carelessness. Especially when their options to bail them out are limited right now.
I don't really care much who starts at C, although I think....yuck....Meyers seems like the least disruptive option I sure wouldn't demote either Mo or Aminu to bench roles
Celtics got to the conference finals without Kyrie or Hayward last year. Pels got to the semis without Boogie. Center was coincidentally our deepest position. I know I'm in the bargaining stage, but maybe all isn't lost.
