Mario Chalmers
Josh Smith
Chase Budinger
Kevin Martin
JJ Hickson
Norris Cole
Tayshaun Prince
Tyler Hansbrough
Charlie Villanueva
Caron Butler

The way Hornacek has talked about how he plans to deal with this roster indicates he's gonna stagger his starters in such a way that his bench guys will not be out there as a platoon unit but rather mixed with the starters so that the bench isn't put under too much pressure.

Rose, Lee, Jennings, Holiday and Sasha should be enough to cover the guard spots and with a little bit from a Randle or Baker.

Melo, KP, Noah, Thomas, KOQ and Willy seems like a good group to start with. A little bit from Kuz and Ndour should be enough.

Knickoftime wrote:

mrcool wrote:I really believe this last position left unfilled will be critical as the team goes into training camp. I believe we need another veteran, i am very comfortable with pg Jennings sg Holiday and sf thomas but every other player is questionable and honestly Oquinn is a solid back up the problem occurs when we ask him to do more than he should be. He is not a scoring big he is a scrappy player and thats that who can score on a good day. Which one of these players would you think will solidfy our bench, I like JJ Hickson he can score and is very scrappy and Kevin Martin also, Charlie villanueva is also a good one.

Mario Chalmers
Josh Smith
Chase Budinger
Kevin Martin
JJ Hickson
Norris Cole
Tayshaun Prince
Tyler Hansbrough
Charlie Villanueva
Caron Butler

Not sure how a guy who doesn't dress for games will be critical, and 15th men don't dress for games unless someone is injured, must less play in the games they dress for.

The 15th man will be a practice dummy during the day....and destroying everybody in local gyms at night.