CrushAlot wrote:One of the centers doesn't play. The Celtics game he sat KOQ for almost the entire game. With KP playing the 5 and Melo blowing up in the second quarter there was less minutes for the other bigs. I don't know how you balance minutes for 5 centers that need playing time. I don't think Noah can be traded. I don't know what the right move is.

Trade KoQ while he has his value up. He has a player option next year so he is going to get paid shortly so why not get a pick or a wing or both. The blazers and the Celtics would be great trading partners but I doubt a Celtics trade would happen.

It's actually real good that we have these many bigs that can play and deserve PT. What you have to do longterm is move one of them to get more help at the perimeter, or you move Melo. If Melo's moved and you've got an athletic 3 in place that can defend and play in a fast paced game, you can play KP at 4 and move him to 5 as the game evolves. This leaves minutes for a rotation of O'Quinn/Plumlee/Willy.

Next year if Melo is traded, I'd like to see us starting Willy at 5, KP at 4, with an athletic 3 who can defend and shoot 3's. KP plays well as 4 and we can play very well with him there if the 5 isn't a liability on offense like Noah or the 3 isn't too slow/plays little defense like Melo usually does as when he's at 3.

Willy's 22, KP's 21. They are foundation players in my book who should be eventually starting for us. I've seen snough from Willy to believe he'll be a starter in this league.

Rest of the year I'd go with Melo at starting 4, KP either starting 5 who backs up Melo at 4, or coming in off the bench. Whatever way works out. Really like O'Quinn, Plumlee and Willy but it will be tough for us to get minutes for all 3 so long as Melo is starting at 4. This team was not built with Melo as starting 4 in mind. It's become that way because Melo simply can not be as effective anymore as a 3. At 4 he looks like a legit all-star, still.

BRIGGS wrote:How in the world does he go from 17-12 in 19 minutes to DNP? I like Plumlees picks too but he was NOT Willy G.

None of Billy, KOQ or Plumlee are ready to play consistently and have all shown that they're still inconsistent players so JH mixes their playing time up which i have no problem with cause they usually play really good games when the coach doesn't play them in the previous game. KOQ came out playing horrible in the Celtics game so JH quickly got him out and played Billy and Plumlee who both played well and then KOQ came back like a beast in the Wizards game.

yellowboy90 wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:One of the centers doesn't play. The Celtics game he sat KOQ for almost the entire game. With KP playing the 5 and Melo blowing up in the second quarter there was less minutes for the other bigs. I don't know how you balance minutes for 5 centers that need playing time. I don't think Noah can be traded. I don't know what the right move is.

Trade KoQ while he has his value up. He has a player option next year so he is going to get paid shortly so why not get a pick or a wing or both. The blazers and the Celtics would be great trading partners but I doubt a Celtics trade would happen.

I agree. Posted this elsewhere, he is very tradeable. But my preference would be to keep him and Billy and dump Noah. Noah just is done, his shooting is horrible. If he takes a pay cut to play secondary role or be a coach player then ok.

meloshouldgo wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:One of the centers doesn't play. The Celtics game he sat KOQ for almost the entire game. With KP playing the 5 and Melo blowing up in the second quarter there was less minutes for the other bigs. I don't know how you balance minutes for 5 centers that need playing time. I don't think Noah can be traded. I don't know what the right move is.

Trade KoQ while he has his value up. He has a player option next year so he is going to get paid shortly so why not get a pick or a wing or both. The blazers and the Celtics would be great trading partners but I doubt a Celtics trade would happen.

I agree. Posted this elsewhere, he is very tradeable. But my preference would be to keep him and Billy and dump Noah. Noah just is done, his shooting is horrible. If he takes a pay cut to play secondary role or be a coach player then ok.