It's more a matter of chemistry. Especially with a team with this many quality moving parts. Sometimes too much of one thing isn't good. Too many players that need the ball in their hands sometimes don't' mesh well.

I like the aggressive attitude of this starting five, I like how this team can throw waves of good players at an opposing team off the bench too.

IMO Brown need time watching the game from the bench until he figures a way to let the game come to him, and stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Hayward needs more time to physically gain his full confidence.

In certain instances, like an injury, I can see either returning to the starting line up.

Hayward is the really interesting question to me. Everyone I hear talk about it seems to assume that he'll be moved back into the starting lineup when he's played himself back to 100% but when that happens, the team still would seem more balanced with him coming off the bench.

And I'm starting to think he's not going to be 100% this season. He'll get close and he'll look like Utah Gordon Hayward on some nights but these things take time. I don't think KG was ever 100% in the 2010 season. Paul George had a hot start when he came back from his injury but he wasn't really right until the season after.

Maybe Hayward stays on the bench, wins 6MOY, and then he moves into the starting lineup next season after the roster shuffles a little.

Quote from: nickagneta on Today at 11:28:24 AM

This lineup is working great. No need to change it. Brown needs to play better but Stevens needs to incorporate him more for use with the second unit. It's one thing to have him stand in a corner and get little touches when on the floor with Kyrie/Hayward/Tatum/Horford. It's a completely different thing to have him to stand in a corner when playing with Rozier/Hayward/Semi/a center(Theis,Williams or Baynes).

The thing is, since around the second week of November -- from before he was injured and lost his spot in the starting lineup -- Brown HAS been playing better.  Starting around then, he changed his offensive profile to go more aggressively at the hoop again and again in each game.  As a result, he's had a solid 46% overall FG% and 54.4% TS% (scoring efficiency) since then and the latter in particular has been a fantastic 59% in December.  Not every game during that stretch has been great, but most of them have.  And even in the couple where his efficiency wasn't great, he was still going into the paint.

He made that change independent of being shifted to the bench.

Don't have to tell me. I have been saying that he has been playing much better than earlier in the season for a while. But, whether due to injury or illness, his last two games have been pretty poor, hence, he has to play better

His last two games he has been shooting 28%. Turned the ball over 2.5 times per game and played some pretty sketchy defense while really forcing the issue with his drives. He had exactly one quarter of good ball in his last two games. Other than that, he has really struggled

Quote from: SHAQATTACK on Today at 11:39:10 AM

what an great BB trivia question in 20 years .   Who was nick named the time lord ?


BTW .....its a great advertising name ......Timex poster ....looking at tall williams stern face up with Williams arms crossed , a timex watch on each wrist .....with a phrase .....like " being on time matters".   ..LOL.....what a great chance to turn an innocent blunder as a rookie into a nice pay check ..... 

Good Karma is with this kid.

if you running a commercial off that name you are not even restricted to TIMEX any watch company can use him. lol....

Well start with Timex and when he becomes a star he can work his way up to Rolex