(10-21-2025, 02:17 PM)Dahlsim Wrote: Yeah no one is playing double bigs all game long so that's not the point. Most of the time bigs will be staggered but they will also be played together at times where at one time 2 centers would hardly ever be played.
Its definitely a thing that OKC did which was taken note of across the league and being utilized by other teams too, not just my observation. OKC combines the bigs with a big 6'6' MVP point guard, so yeah, they have size.
It's a rotation changeup that results in the being big or even super big for matchup advantage minutes just as teams can and do go small for extended stretches.
https://www.si.com/nba/thunder/news/okc-...jt8mpgszp8
In the playoffs Chet and Hartenstein played barely 10 minutes per game on the court together. That means most of the time the two biggest players on the court for them were a center (with Chet being undersized) and a 6'6" point guard, so no, they did not play with size. The reality is that they were wildly undersized before getting Hartenstein. They didn't start the trend of two bigs with one being a shooter. They were simply following the model that has worked for years (Boston with Horford and KP, GS with Green and Looney, Bucks with Gianis and Lopez).
I don't really see what Houston and Dallas are doing is following in those footsteps. They are trying something totally different by putting multiple non shooting bigs on the floor together. I think its an experiment that is going to fail, but we shall see.
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