I'll play these, thanks.

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Hey, there are quite a few things that I like about our guys.  Then we have the holes.  I just decided to not get caught up on how things are going with someone playing out of position to fill up the hole, but rather to look at what I like of what we have when they get to play together.

And we look pretty good for a rebuilding team.

Sully/KO/Vitor could be a pretty potent 3-big rotation in 2 years.  I don't care who gets 4th big minutes (Wallace/Green/Bass/Hump) as long as we see those 3 guys getting minutes together.  I wouldn't cut their time to get more for established players like Hump, Bass, Wallace, and Green, known commodities whose (trade) value is established.

Pretty well most of our guard crop is known, but not distinguished excepting perhaps Bradley.  Pressey is nice to watch.  I'd just as well watch a PG play PG than SG's do it poorly.  Play Pressey a lot.

Wallace and Green can play well together.  Wallace's aggressiveness (whoa!) makes defenses move, which opens things up and creates mismatches, which is what Green needs.  Bradley is aggressive too. 

Bradley and Wallace (and Sully and Bass) need to set the defensive tone and intensity level for Green to rise to.

At guard, Crawford and Bradley are different styles of 3rd guard.  It's pointless to discuss who is the better starting PG.

So I'd be happy to watch the young bigs this year, with some veteran aggressive Bass springkled in.

I'd watch Green and Wallace and Bradley play on the perimeter, so long as we have nice passing bigs like Sully and KO to make up for Bradley.  That might be the nice, big offensive lineup that I like best: with Wallace, Green, Sully, and KO.  Pressey would run point better, and I want to see that, too.

Lee looks nice in limited minutes, too, with Wallace dishing to him for open corner 3's.

We have some nice combos:

1) Bradley Green Wallace (big defense))

2) Sully KO VITOR! big man rotation

3) Pressey/Green/Wallace/Sully/KO offensive "push" lineup

4) Bradley/Lee/Wallace/Bass/Vitor defensive lineup

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I want to see Pressey and Crawford split the PG minutes, and I want to see a lot more of Sully and Olynyk together.

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I want to see Pressey and Crawford split the PG minutes, and I want to see a lot more of Sully and Olynyk together.

Yeah, the PG position is what really woke me up to what we're watching when I found myself almost getting caught up in who is the better (or less sucky) starting PG of our two backup 3rd guards.

Who cares whether Crawford iso-ball or Bradley ball-hawking D creates better individual stats?  We ain't winning either way.

We probably didn't need to start Bradley to hold back Jamaal Tinsley these days against Utah, right?  Would've been a great time to start Pressey.  Maybe we wouldn't have started out in the hole.

Yes, more Pressey, please.

Play people in their most normal position.

Maybe I change my mind and go with a favored 5 of Pressey/Bradley/Green/Sully/KO and see what they can do.  That might be the lineup to drop Rondo back in to when he returns.

Wallace, I like him as a player, but his mouth and is p---ing me off.  He needs to be told that his role is to be a relentlessly positive, stabilizing veteran presence.  But yeah, I'd play Green ahead of him, and probably Bradley and Sully at their natural positions next to him, too.

Bradley/Green/Sully/KO needs a good, long look for "future" purposes, unless VITOR! brings it on so strongly that Sully becomes our 3rd big.  We'd have a pretty good front line if that were ever true.

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Here's how I'd do it:

PG: Pressey (24) / Crawford (24)
SG: Bradley (32) / Lee (16)
SF: Green (34) / Wallace (14)
PF: Bass (30) / Sullinger (18)
C: Olynyk (24) / Sullinger (8 ) / Faverani (16)