What do you guys think of this minute breakdown for Pawnee Pacers regular season?
Marc Gasol (30) / Channing Frye (15) / Chuck Hayes (3)
Zach Randolph (35)/ Chuck Hayes (13)
Rudy Gay (33) / Ron Artest (15)
Courtney Lee (24) / Paul George (22) / Rudy Gay (2)
Tony Parker (30) / Jeff Teague (10) / Kemba Walker ( 8 )
I think it's a good distribution, I just wonder how Artest will react with his 15 minutes.
I'm hoping he can take the extra time to work on his comedy-act....
But seriously, I think he'd be fine. There are very particular matchups we acquired him for where he'd see a real up in minutes.
I think its silly to break down minutes to that level. No team plays a 12 man rotation after all. I'd rather see you talk about what your primary lineups would be and what sort of rotation you'd use.
I want Z-Bo and Gasol to play a lot of minutes together because everyone knows what kind of force they are paired together. We want to give them the ball a lot when on the floor. I'd like TP to play with those two a lot also because Parker can get into the lane at will against most opponents and draw defensive help from big men. Parker is still very good at hitting that floater over the defensive help, but if he happens to miss it, our two bigs will be in fantastic position to clean up o-boards, which both are monsters at.
For that reason, I'm initially thinking that I'd like to see Gay on the floor most of the time when those 2 are not on the floor. Let the offense revolve around him more and we'll also have Channing Frye out there to spread the floor for Rudy and Teague/TP.
Hayes minutes will likely be more variable from game to game depending on if our opponent has a strong offensive weapon in the frontcourt since he is one of the league's best at defending post players in isolation situations.
These are my own thoughts, I haven't discussed this much with StartOrien yet. What are your thoughts on this, Faf (and others please)?