There was some talk in the Game 1 thread about JMax coming out early in the first quarter, only 6 minutes in, but I didn't see anyone posting Flip's comments on it from the postgame press conference, which were mentioned on DetroitBadBoys:
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“[The] big thing is we try to send a lot of bodies at [Howard]. And we wanted to keep a fresh body on him all the time,” said Saunders. “I took Maxey out, I think five minutes, six minutes into the game. Some of the guys on the bench are saying, ‘Why take him out?’ I said because I want to keep somebody fresh on him, and our guys have to know that they don’t have to play 10 minutes, they can play six minutes and they can go as hard as they can, and hopefully what it’ll do is when you get in the third and fourth quarter, it’ll wear him down.”
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Obviously that worked quite well, so it'll be interesting to see how the big man rotations go tonight.