What does Billups' rebounding average have to do with this injury?

Huh? They basically swapped Brezec for Ratliff when those moves were made. I'm not sure what scenario you're envisioning here.

Ernie's name appears very appropriate re: that post.

I agree, I don't know why we don't go smaller.

Rip can handle Lewis or Turkey for stretches @ the 3, just like Afflalo can.

Tay should be the 4 whenever Lewis is @ the 4.

Don't forget Sheed in the post - he's a great passer from there. How he plays will be key to this game, too. If he abuses his man in the post then maybe a perimeter defender cheats over to him, setting up Hayes/Dixon for an open look. If he sets up along the 3pt arc most of the game then he's not helping.

Scoe, please explain why you don't feel that our "back-up SF" can't be benched (am I missing some sarcasm? - I AM a little slow sometimes.).

I believe that AJ can contribute MUCH more in this series (with these match-ups) than Arvis.

Well, my point is, you don't only go 2 men deep at arguably the most important position. So Hunter and Dixon must be active.

No sarcasm. Heaven forbid, what do we do if Tay gets injured? Play Hermann at the 3? What if he gets into foul trouble? Play AA at the 3?

I think we need to be 3 deep at every position, Sheed/Max/Rattler/Dice are swappable at the 4+5, with Hermann as the 5th PF. Tay, Jarvis and Walt backup the 3, Rip, Aff, Dix at the 2, and Stuckey, Hunter and Dix at the 1.

AJ has limited range, can be foul prone and is a lousy perimeter defender. Jarvis has range on him at the 3.

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• IMO: Yes. Play Walt @ SF (perfect size matchup with Turkey and Shard).

• And another "affirmative" for playing Spellcheck @ the 3 spot (his quickness would KILL TurkeyGlue or Lewis). - ANYTHING that keeps Arvis off of the floor is cool with me. The ONLY time he should see ANY action at all would be as a final-shot offensive substitution at the very end of quarters.

• I think Amir is a better match-up against the big SFs that Orlando has. Just because Flip hasn't played him at the 3 this year (which he should have), doesn't mean it's a crazy idea.

• ...and yes, Jarvis has range. He seems to be missing his shots (playoffs = 7 for 24)from a longer distance lately.

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I concur on all points. It is not Arvis's range that is hurting us. It is the fact that he can't play D. Not only does his shooting percentage hurt us; he can't stop anybody from scoring.

I can see that. I was mostly responding to folks who would rather see Dixon if only one got the nod.