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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5436953, member: 722"]
Excellent point. Red definitely spread the minutes around.

One quibble, while Lampkin and Carlos totaled more minutes than Starling, with 986 and 948 respectively, to Starling’s 898, that is mitigated by Starling’s injury. He averaged 34.5 minutes per game he was available for.

Overall, the minutes were really spread out, as you say.

My larger quibble is that Red didn’t seem to be trying to spread minutes out of a desire to give everybody a chance. It felt like he was just trying to find anybody who could be effective, and help the team win. Spaghetti at the wall coaching. None of it worked, but that will happen when you don’t have any players.

The roster was so bad last year after all the stuff that happened, Red kind of had his hands tied.

This upcoming season, we have maybe 11 guys that would have been starters on last years terrible team. The talent is immensely better this season than last.

How Red works his rotations this season will go a long way to revealing his long term philosophy. Including how he incorporates ideas like using playing time as a reward or punishment and “riding the hot hand.”

He’s had two years to get his feet wet, and this year will be critical.
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