Nine with HOuston back.

This is what we gotta do. Leave all the deadwood on the bench. Have a starting line of

Steph
Craw
TT (also deadwood i know, but give him time)
Kurt (Sweets later in the year)
Nazr

Have a bench of Ariza, Penny, Sweets(Kurt) and Crawford when Houston gets back.

I know its tight, but whats the use of playing guys who you know are just gonna f**k thinks up out there.

BTW thats 15mm of contracts on the bench, doing nothing but making it shiny. Not somethink we would see in the Laydog era.

Wadaya think?

Depth is one of this team's strengths. I think it would be unwise to not take advantage of that. Nazr had a good game last night but you know they'll be nights where he's just awful. TT too has shown major inconsistency. In these situations it helps to have JYD and Baker as backups.

Obviously when Houston comes back, I think he, Craw, and Marbs will get all the backcourt minutes, forming the 3-guard rotation that Isiah envisoned. If you want Penny in the rotation, it would have to be at SF. That means either cutting TT and/or Ariza minutes, or playing TT more at PF. If you want to pkay TT at PF, then I can see the logic of permanantly benching Baker and JYD

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TT too has shown major inconsistency.

No, he's been very consistant. He's sucked every game this season. Hopefully it's just a couple more games before he breaks out. If not, I can tolerate watching Ariza .