they had a rotation of 10 players all playing 25 mins or so. the philosphy was to collect as much talent as possible, and then try to package them to get a star there. but it didn't work. no trades happened AND now they're losing players for nothing.

i'm not a fan of splitting time among all your players. i think you need at least 2-3 positions where a player gets 30+ mins night in and night out and for the same players to be in there at the end of the game.

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they had a rotation of 10 players all playing 25 mins or so. the philosphy was to collect as much talent as possible, and then try to package them to get a star there. but it didn't work. no trades happened AND now they're losing players for nothing.

i'm not a fan of splitting time among all your players. i think you need at least 2-3 positions where a player gets 30+ mins night in and night out and for the same players to be in there at the end of the game.

Yeah, Jerry West looked depressed on Draft Nite. He couldn't really get up for Warrick even.

I'm all about the Riley 8 man playoff rotation.

5 starters, 3 key bench players.

During the season, you can let 4 or 5 guys battle for the 3 key bench roles.

On our current team it breaks down like this (off the top of my head IMHO):
Marbs (duh),
Q (younger faster H20),
TT (unfortunately, he chipped in 15/game when got head right)
Sweets (sorry, he's a PF that does what a PF should do..BANG)
Frye (shot blocking center)

Bench fillers:
Craw (no brainer)
Reezy (Will be starting before we know it)
Rose (can guard shaq, heady vet)

To battle for the top 8:
Nate (so far, so good)
Lee (could help show sweets the door if he's not careful)
JYD (skinny Rose)
MoT (can post up, has just a good a chance to get in shape as sweets)

Am I forgetting anyone?

you also can't leave out that you need backup in case of injury, it happens to everyone. you have to play at least 9-10 players in the regular season so even the last few guys are ready to step in if needed.

i totally agree on TT. he throws off our whole rotation just with his mere presence. if he's on our roster, he'll get 25+ minutes a night, and probably start. without him, those minutes go to ariza and whichever of our PFs are backing him up, rose, JYD, lee. i definitely want to see ariza starting next to Q and marbury by the trading deadline, the rotation fishmike was talking about would be amazing.

TT (& sweetney?) for ratliff and outlaw?