(5 hours ago)mvossman Wrote: It's not so much that I think they will choose to play Aldama over PJ (I agree its a tradeoff at best), its that there are so many guys that will demand significant minutes. They didn't pay assets and 17 mil for Aldama not to play him. Morez will get significant minutes soon if not immediately, and the other guys that PJ competed for minutes with are still on the roster (including Naji who just got an extension).
I personally don't think any of the forwards demands minutes (obviously excluding Coop). There are development guys who we would like to see get minutes, but ultimately I do not think May is a coach who is going to hand those minutes over simply because they are young and need development.
I think May will reward the best players with minutes. Whatever advantages any of the other 3/4s may or may not have offensively (I don't really think any of them will necessarily have any kind of significant offensive advantages unless someone like Risacher takes some ginormous development leap, or Biberovich is some kind of Peja Stojakovic clone day one), PJ's defense will be so much better than the others that he will demand heavy minutes from that alone.
I think Naji leads the ball handling of the second unit alongside De Laria, and plays predominantly at the guard spots, with some 3 behind Coop, so I don't think he will really compete with PJ for minutes much at all.