here's a little something to help byron

by nikkoewan on Mar 16, 2009 1:03 PM CDT

we have all suggested that peja be our sixth man, and posey play 15 to 20 minutes. but that would seriously destroy the hornets rotation. byron scott would not love that cause he would be thinking of a new rotation. so to help byron scott, here is a rotation screen where peja is our sixth man.

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there. the numbers on the right are minutes played. as you can see. even though peja is our sixth man, he plays 30 minutes. CP3 plays 34 minutes, west plays 33 minutes, TC plays 34 minutes, butler plays 31 minutes. but the important thing here is we have an offensive option everytime. as you can see, when west goes out, peja goes in. when peja comes out, west comes in. on the 2nd quarter, 9 min mark. paul is surrounded by shooters, so than takes care of the offense. if paul is trapped boom, THREEE. otherwise, we can post posey, or iso juju( although this may lead to a turnover, at least).

so what if daniels plays poorly? in the measly 14 minutes he plays? all he needs to do is orchestrate the offense( give the ball to west or peja). we have *gulp* brown to replace. the same goes for marks and armstrong ely. the good thing is, mo pete isnt even on the rotation.

i am not saying we should use this rotation for every games. but we should use this rotation when playing gimme games - new york, memphis, clippers etc. that extra 6 to 7 minute rest means a lot.

also, if daniels and brown play so poorly, we can experiment juju, butler and peja/posey at the same time with the other bigs. juju and butler can handle the ball, so i hope there would be no problem there.

also in this rotation scheme, we play 2 types of defenses, the normal face guard, where our last resort is TC(when he's in the game) or a disrupting defense adept at rotations and clogging passing lanes with lengthy arms( such as when Peja and Posey are on the floor at the same time).

i know there are flaws in this rotation, but at least its and experiment. comments and suggestions?

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update

after the hornets247 update, the 30 minutes peja plays should be given out like this: add 12 minutes to juju for a total of 30 minutes, add about 4 minutes to posey for a total of 25 minutes( in the 4th, instead of peja playing the sf the whole 12 minutes. time should be split between them maybe 4 minutes for posey, 8 minutes to juju. the substitution depends on byron. if needs energy and rebounding, posey for the first four minutes, juju finishes quarter. if he needs 3 point shooting and has good matchup(pierce, kobe, roy and the like) then vice versa. also the 7 minutes peja plays as shooting guard( 1st Q 4 min to end and start of 2nd to 9 min) should be given to mo. while the 3rd quarter minutes should be distributed evenly between butler and juju.

sorry for inconvinience.

by nikkoewan on Mar 16, 2009 1:16 PM CDT reply actions

vocab corrections

*sorry for the inconvinience

by nikkoewan on Mar 16, 2009 1:28 PM CDT reply actions

Great ideas

Peja off the bench gets us some sorely needed offense. Those iso plays for him are surprisingly effective too.

Love the minutes break down also. It spreads around the time a lot more efficiently, and keeps Paul from having to play 40-45 every single night.

by Rohan on Mar 17, 2009 10:29 PM CDT reply actions

thanks

yes. that was the main reason i wanted to do this fan post. the weird thing about byron is that he gets all the reserves for the first 6 minutes of the 2nd quarter. but that shouldnt be the case. it never should be, unless your bench is like utah’s or lakers, which they are not. although we are not the worst bench in the league(via +/-), as i remember, we are below the 15th, so we kind of suck. but if we use this rotation scheme( this is very similar to how popovich plays his players), cp3 gets his well deserved rest. if the situation calls for it, he can play 40 minutes AT MOST. he should never go over 40 again, along with west. im afraid paul we’ll break down easily in the playoffs if he continues with his plans, and if we ever have that sliver of hope to win it all, cp3 should reserve his energy for May( and June). since peja is not coming( for a while), we should use the update i gave. the gimme games should be played like this, or better if cp3 plays less than 30. that would be awesome. look at lbj, at the start of the season, he played about 33 min/game. now that the playoff seedings get important, he can get to play 39 min. but he rarely goes over 40 minutes now adays, except when playing lakers or important games.

also, i will try to prepare an off season move list by jeff bower. signings, that are cheap. trades, etc etc.

thanks for the appreciation

by nikkoewan on Mar 18, 2009 12:16 AM CDT reply actions

update...

http://www.82games.com/0809/STSORT18.HTM – bench
http://www.82games.com/0809/STSORT9.HTM – starters

we are 18th in the league, behind bench players such as milwaukee, new york and chicago(!!). it just goes to show how below average our bench is, and how awesome our starters are(6th).

by nikkoewan on Mar 18, 2009 12:23 AM CDT reply actions