I think KG will need to be on the court closer to 40 minutes than 30. He's their only rim protector.
Horford averaged just as many blocks as KG last year.
Rim protection is not about blocked shots.
Horford isn't in the same class defensively as KG, especially at the C position.
So you're knocking us for having *only one* defensive player of a generation? Tough crowd.
KG will play 35 minutes in this series. And he can handle that with all his rest from the regular season.
KG is playing no more than 28 mpg during the regular season, right?
And he never played in back to backs?
So he probably never played more than 85 minutes in a given week, and likely less the far majority of weeks.
This however will be well into his 2nd month of 35 minute games, 3 times a week, with heavy travel. If you figure that each series was 6 games, he plays 35 minutes a game, he'll be walking into this Finals after playing 630 minutes in roughly 7 weeks, whereas if you assume no back to backs and a few missed games here and there, it would've taken him basically 2 months to play the same minutes during the regular season.
With the way he ran out of gas during the long conference finals run in 2012(talkin' bout the last 2 games), anyone else think that KG doesn't have it in him to go the full road to the trophy as a centerpiece component at 35 minutes a night?