07-08-2022, 09:27 PM
(07-08-2022, 07:23 PM)sterlingmallory Wrote: We'll see, I just don't see the point in playing suboptimal lineups even for only 5 or 10 or 15 minutes or whatever and then just dismissing it because well the closing lineup is more important anyway. I really think playing McGee and Wood together is just going to cause more trouble than it's worth. Whatever you gain in size, toughness, and rebounding is more than made up for when Luka has to drive into a clogged paint and ends up turning it over.
My prediction is come November and December we're going to get off to a slow start and after two months of everyone on this board complaining about rotations we'll finally see Kidd make a change to the starting lineup and suddenly everything will start clicking once we go exclusively to lineups that feature Wood and McGee as the lone big surrounded by shooters. If I'm wrong then I'm wrong and I'll be humble enough to admit it, but I feel strongly that something like this will be how it plays out.
You could very well be right but even if you are is it bad for Kidd to experiment with what he's got? What if by some magical reason the Wood+McGee+Dinwiddie lineup actually blows teams out of the water? Like Warrior death lineup style?
Obviously the possibility of that happening is like 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of happening, but we'll never know unless Kidd tries it. And the best time to try it is opening day vs. 5 months in.
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