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Luka is not a guard on defense. 6’6” is not small for a guard. What are you talking about?

I'm talking about playing defense. Luka doesn't play any defense. Look at the rotations. Dallas played at least 5 minutes tonight with Luka, Ky, Green, THJ on the floor. I don't care if you call them guards, wings, or smalls, or positionless. That's just not sustainable. Now add Exum. He's got a little more beef in the rear end than THJ but he's still too small to regularly play with three of Luka, Ky, Green, and THJ. It's TOO SMALL. Sure, they can be competitive and they can beat a lot of teams if the superstars play 40 minutes and each score 30 but we've seen this team get bullied repeatedly against bigger teams.

The Mavs "big wing," forward, power forward, whatever you want to call it i.e. GWill and DJJ each got about 20 min which is probably about right given what we've seen from them this year. But they're small too.

It solves part of the Mavs size issues if you replace GWill with a bigger more athletic wing. But that doesn't open up more minutes for THJ, in fact it might cut into his minutes even more.

My point is, if you pay attention, there isn't a way to solve the size problem while simultaneously giving THJ enough minutes to justify his role on this team, unless you want to play THJ at the expense of Green/Exum, and I don't. If THJ wants to play 18 minutes and limit himself to a few catch & shoot threes while playing strong defense, fine. Then we don't have a THJ problem. But that's not what THJ does in this league.