We beat Boston, but not by much. Why? Wrong rotation. Flip Murray should not be playing. No defense. In a zone, he chooses to cover nobody at all. In a man to man, he plays the opposing guard so soft that he takes away no options at all. Mohammed should never have been signed, and McDyess is having problems with back spasms.

For the Boston game, here is an 8 man rotation we could have used. Eight guys is too little for the long run, but perhaps we are adding Webber, and CB will come back soon enough:

Delfino at point, Rip, Tay, Amir Johnson, Sheed.

Blalock plays 20 minutes at point.

Delfino plays 5 minutes at shooting guard, and Tay plays 7 minutes at shooting guard. (Which leaves Rip with 36 minutes of playing time.)

Jason Maxiell plays 19 minutes at small forward, allowing to Tay to rest plenty and also allowing Tay to play some at shooting guard.

Dale Davis rests Sheed and Amir Johnson. Maybe JMAX plays just a little at power forward, but not much.

Nobody gets more than 36 minutes in the game. We beat the snot out of Boston.

Next question, what about when Webber is added to the rotation and CB returns from injury? Simply, everyone plays a bit less. Nobody should average more than 32 mintues during a regular season.

CWEBB should start, but with those knees of his, he should never play more than 24 minutes. Start him, play him the first 8 minutes of the game, the first 4 minutes of the 2nd quarter, the first 6 minutes of the 3rd quarter, and the last 6 minutes of the game.

Sheed has long term ankle and knee problems right now stemming from his severe ankle injury last playoffs. Here is another player who should start, but should be limited for now to 28 minutes per game.

CB should start out with 24 minutes a game and slowly extend that to 32 minutes a game.

Rip and Tay, 32 minutes per game.

In sum, the starters should be taking, starting Monday, (assuming Webber is with us and CB plays) 138 of 240 minutes. This leaves 102 minutes for the bench. Thats 5 players getting 20 minutes. JMAX, Amir Johnson, Blalock, Dale Davis, Delfino.

Dyess should be kept as a spare big, and should get Dale's minutes on 2nd of back to backs. Dyess should work on his conditioning, making sure he is 100% for the playoffs, if we need him. Being the spare big on a championship team is a valuable role. He should embrace it.

Dupree should be the 12th man dressed.