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waterhead said:
I think the odds of Jenifer making something like that happen this year are pretty low. Evans on the other hand...has a little easier path.
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Yes I think he does too. But if we keep playing this style, Shaq will continue to be productive.
 
GuyfromNKY said:
I don't think so either that's why I think this plan would only happen for about 5 minutes a game.
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They will definitely being playing together this year at times. I think 5 minutes might be about right.

However, I don't understand why anyone would have to lose a job in order to get another player more minutes. It's basically just a pay cut...not a lost job.

Example: In the highly unlikely scenario that Jenifer pushes Troy off the ball for 10 minutes. Let's just say Cobb and Johnson are splitting the 2 guard evenly at 20 minutes a piece. In this scenario either both players lose 5 minutes or one player loses 10 minutes but both are still playing significant minutes. Of course there are many other options like one player losing 7.5 and one losing 2.5. Also there is an option where they run 3 guards and cut into the SF minutes. It could take 2.5 minutes out of 4 different players making it hardly noticeable to anyone.
 
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waterhead said:
They will definitely being playing together this year at times. I think 5 minutes might be about right.

However, I don't understand why anyone would have to lose a job in order to get another player more minutes. It's basically just a pay cut...not a lost job.

Example: In the highly unlikely scenario that Jenifer pushes Troy off the ball for 10 minutes. Let's just say Cobb and Johnson are splitting the 2 guard evenly at 20 minutes a piece. In this scenario either both players lose 5 minutes or one player loses 10 minutes but both are still playing significant minutes.
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I think it'll just be a game by game thing.
 
waterhead said:
They will definitely being playing together this year at times. I think 5 minutes might be about right.

However, I don't understand why anyone would have to lose a job in order to get another player more minutes. It's basically just a pay cut...not a lost job.

Example: In the highly unlikely scenario that Jenifer pushes Troy off the ball for 10 minutes. Let's just say Cobb and Johnson are splitting the 2 guard evenly at 20 minutes a piece. In this scenario either both players lose 5 minutes or one player loses 10 minutes but both are still playing significant minutes. Of course there are many other options like one player losing 7.5 and one losing 2.5. Also there is an option where they run 3 guards and cut into the SF minutes. It could take 2.5 minutes out of 4 different players making it hardly noticeable to anyone.
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If it's a tie game at Uconn with two minutes left who are the five on the floor?
 
Not sure what thread it was, but I said last weekish that for this season, I'd take Shaq Goodwin over Clark. I know it makes me a flip-flopper, but I'd like to take that back if it isn't too late.
 
jacobkdoyle said:
I think it'll just be a game by game thing.
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Right. No sense in trying to peg minutes on a game by game basis. A lot will depend on game flow, matchup, other team's personnel, what defense we're facing, etc.

I do expect Mick to try out some different lineups in the upcoming games, though. We have seen very brief stints of some of these, but for instance:

Jenifer/Troy at 1-2
Cobb/Johnson at 2-3
Evans/Shaq at 2-3 and 3-4
Ellis/DeBerry at 4-5

We have a lot of good players. We're going to play a lot of good players. Said players are unselfish and passing up good shots for great shots. Things couldn't have gone better the first two games so I don't see Mick all of the sudden changing things up.

My advice is to just sit back and enjoy this team play and not fret that player A got so many minutes and player B got so few minutes. Mick knows what he's doing and he'll put us in the best position to win games.
 
bearcat18 said:
Right. No sense in trying to peg minutes on a game by game basis. A lot will depend on game flow, matchup, other team's personnel, what defense we're facing, etc.

I do expect Mick to try out some different lineups in the upcoming games, though. We have seen very brief stints of some of these, but for instance:

Jenifer/Troy at 1-2
Cobb/Johnson at 2-3
Evans/Shaq at 2-3 and 3-4
Ellis/DeBerry at 4-5

We have a lot of good players. We're going to play a lot of good players. Said players are unselfish and passing up good shots for great shots. Things couldn't have gone better the first two games so I don't see Mick all of the sudden changing things up.

My advice is to just sit back and enjoy this team play and not fret that player A got so many minutes and player B got so few minutes. Mick knows what he's doing and he'll put us in the best position to win games.
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I agree.
 
Because it's such a new phenomenon I'm still a little worried that the offensive juggernaut that we have seen in the first couple of games is going to come back down to earth.

However, one of my favorite things about this team is the depth and versatility we can throw at any team. If one man is struggling with his shot or his style of play isn't particularly effective against a certain team...we have another man to throw at them with a different style but a similar skill level.

We should be able to avoid those really horrible offensive nights because of this.
 
waterhead said:
Because it's such a new phenomenon I'm still a little worried that the offensive juggernaut that we have seen in the first couple of games is going to come back down to earth.

However, one of my favorite things about this team is the depth and versatility we can throw at any team. If one man is struggling with his shot or his style of play isn't particularly effective against a certain team...we have another man to throw at them with a different style but a similar skill level.

We should be able to avoid those really horrible offensive nights because of this.
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Obviously we won't score 100 every night and there will be a few some teams that can successfully slow us down, but I think with the up tempo mindset and the unselfishness of this team will keep scoring high. Overall I think the team will average between 73-77ppg over the course of the year, which is a huge improvement from previous years.
 
Farad cobb is shooting 66% from 3 out of a decent sample size of 12-18 just thought I'd let you know.

And he is averaging 15 ppg in 19 mpg pretty impressive.
 

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