Small vs. big rotations. If we really wanted to go big, we could start Billups, Tay, Amir, JMAX, and Sheed. Rip would get 6th man of the year no doubt.

Our bench would feature Rip playing the point some along with Tay who would be running the offense. Stuckey would be a fourth gaurd while Mejia and Afflalo would see no time at all.

Dyess can't backup all three front court positions. Going small just a bit, using Mejia, Afflalo, or Prince at small forward, would alleviate some of the problem, but we could stay big by letting Samb play some. For this big rotation, that is the route I will go.

So Samb and Dyess play 40 minutes combined, about 25 for Dyess and 15 for Samb. This leaves Sheed, Amir, and JMAX playing 35 minutes each. This might seem a tad much, but hey, since the only front court players playing along side them would be Samb and Dyess, guys who bring energy, the time on the floor won't be quite so draining. There won't be a Webber or Mohammed out there to sap the strength from the other front court players, making them do way too much on D. Now Samb and Dyess make a good old / young pair. As Dyess diminishes with age over the years, Samb picks up the slack.

In all, you got a nine man rotation. Billups, Tay, Amir, JMAX, Sheed, Rip, Stuckey, Dyess, Samb. The only other two guys to get minutes at all during the season would be Afflalo and Mejia.

Now for a small rotation. We are back to Billups, Rip, Tay, Sheed, and JMAX starting. The only two bigs off the bench are Amir and Dyess, with neither of JMAX nor Amir playing any small forward. Now the bigs minutes are split 4 ways. Dyess can play 21 minutes, JMAX 25, Amir 20, Sheed 30 (adds to 96 minutes)

Mejia backs up Tay, getting 16 minutes per game so that Tay only averages 32 minutes.

Afflalo backs up Rip, and gets 16 minutes, again, limiting Rip to 32 minutes.

Billups keeps it down to 30 minutes, leaving 18 for Stuckey.

This setup gives us a 2nd unit that pretty much plays 16 minutes per game as a unit. The whole 2nd quarter pretty much, plus the first 6 minutes of the 4th quarter. A very simple rotation. The 2nd unit would be Stuckey, Afflalo, Mejia, Amir, Dyess.