Clean wrote:

joec32033 wrote:

MS wrote:“Since Randle and Anunoby’s last game together -- against the Miami Heat at the end of January -- Donte DiVincenzo has played 40.4 minutes a night, Precious Achiuwa 40.3 and Josh Hart 39.4, making up three of the NBA’s top-five in the last eight contests. Jalen Brunson is in the top-15 with 37.3, despite suffering an ankle injury and missing one game during this stretch.”

That is honestly ****ing ridiculous.

Damned if you do damned if you don't. Thibs literally has no one to play. You try to win to buy time you are going to overplay the NBA caliber players you have. He starts playing D league guys he's putting the season. Its simple math. 15 in the bench normally. IHart has limited minutes. Take away Randle, OG, Mitch. Your down to 11.4 players and the 13th guy on the bench moving up to be your 9th man. The minutes thing is over blown and the current situation is a no win situation that people are giving a knee jerk reaction to the numbers. If he played Alec Burks 35 minutes there would be an uproar too.

He has lots of people to play. He chooses not to play them. he is looking at the micro instead of the macro. He is trying to win every game where we have a slim to no chance of winning anyway. So he is risking their health for nothing. Players like Brown and Toppin could not even get in the game. We are losing most of these games anyway so why not put them in and give our main guys a rest.

Thibs approaches the regular season like it’s an 82 game playoff series. And you wonder why we fall flat in the playoffs.

Someone in here said it first and I agreed then. Thibs is a great development coach during a build, but we need someone else to take us to that next level. He relies heavy on high IQ players which is normal and all coaches do that I’m sure. What we don’t see and only hear is Thibs practice sessions are just as brutal on players.

But an offensive creative coach will figure out how to use other players, and that builds confidence. Maybe Thibs learns from this, because I’m really not seeing any clear cut coaching replacements. And everytime I doubt Thibs, he makes the necessary adjustments and proves me wrong. JB going down and all these injuries collectively have to bring awareness to player including more load management strategies. If not Thibs then his staff or someone up to Leon rose level must be talking about this. The fans are not the smartest people on his staff. So in Leon and Thibs, we trust. Don’t let me down Thibs and play Deuce then Milton 38 plus mins. Time to put some trust into Burks .