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[mvossman]

Since you also bring up getting Dwight Powell out of the starting lineup, but still using him in limited minutes, I want to ask you something. As it is, he does not play starter minutes, and is often not on the floor at the end of the game. So the question is, if he plays limited minutes, and doesn't close, why does it matter whether he starts or not? Is it because you think the starting unit should set a tone, and with Dwight on the floor, that's not possible? Or you think they should start with only one big, as their best offensive lineup? Or something else?

I am not DougieFresh, but my thoughts are that Powell seems to stunt KP offense when they are on the floor together and WCS has been completely useless.  Powell makes the most sense as the primary backup center getting roughly the 16 minutes KP is not on the court.  When Maxi is back, he and DFS can split the 4 minutes.  Hopefully this is how it plays out eventually.

This last offseason we needed to upgrade starter talent, get a secondary ball handler, and based on this strategy of "protecting KP" upgrade the big depth.  Its kind of crazy that we failed to do any of that.  I would much rather have Caruso or Theis (who both got the MLE) than Bullock on this team, and with some squeezing under the cap might have been able to get both.