The team seems to be polarized right now. We have 5 amazing vets, Billups, Rip, Tay, Sheed, and Dyess and we have 5 highly talented, but inexperienced younger players, Stuckey, Afflalo, JMax, Amir, and Samb. We have the trade bait, Nazr, Dupree, and Flip, and a player who should retire, Hunter.

Hayes is sort of the only in-between player. He's young, but experienced. Sort of a hired gun for this season only.

So I guess the more I think about it, the more I think we need to create 2 different lines with a mixture of old and new. The "best starting five" in bball seems to have trouble motivating. The new breed doesn't know how to do it on their own yet. When you add Murray or Nazr in with them, it makes it even worse.

It is tough to ask a guy like Rip to come off the bench. It would take some leadership by Saunders to implement a plan like this.

But I guess I would like to see the old and new mixed.

Billups
Afflalo
Prince
Johnson
Sheed

Stuckey
Hamilton
Hayes
JMax
Dyess

Flip, Samb, and Nazr could be inserted as needed.


Then have the usual starting 5 finish the games.

I know it will not happen, but I think that someone like Popovich would consider it.

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"I’ll just say this: We’re not talking to teams about their second- or third-best players." Joe Dumars talking about his plan to get other teams' 4th best players.