I have a feeling Lowry-DG-Kawhi-OG-Siakam is going to be our best lineup this coming season.
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Shaolin Fantastic wrote: View PostI have a feeling Lowry-DG-Kawhi-OG-Siakam is going to be our best lineup this coming season.
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Shaolin Fantastic wrote: View PostI have a feeling Lowry-DG-Kawhi-OG-Siakam is going to be our best lineup this coming season.
JV and Ibaka are our center’s and maybe Siakam gets 5 mins a game as a small ball C.
I mean Lebron and PJ Tucker are center’s in limited minutes now days.
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DanH wrote: View PostI could see it if used situationally. If used as a heavy minute lineup, I expect it will struggle on offence and in the boards and only post decent overall numbers.
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golden wrote: View PostFunny thing is: Lowry-Green-Kawhi-OG- Siakam isn’t even our best defensive lineup vs small ball. It’s:
Wright-Green-Kawhi-OG-Siakam
Plug in Wright, who is a better overall defender than Kyle, and the switching possibilities become ridiculous.Twitter: @ReubenJRD • NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
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DanH wrote: View PostI could see it if used situationally. If used as a heavy minute lineup, I expect it will struggle on offence and in the boards and only post decent overall numbers.Twitter: @ReubenJRD • NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
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ReubenJRD wrote: View PostIt is the best defensive lineup, however, I won't call it the Raptors' version of the death lineup, simply because Lowry is a far better offensive option and there's really no argument to be made.
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golden wrote: View PostIt could be more like the death-lineup stopper. Or at least it might be an antidote to slow down those Warriors runs where they just go nuts and drop 16 pts in 2 minutes to put the game out of reach.Twitter: @ReubenJRD • NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
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golden wrote: View PostFunny thing is: Lowry-Green-Kawhi-OG- Siakam isn’t even our best defensive lineup vs small ball. It’s:
Wright-Green-Kawhi-OG-Siakam
Plug in Wright, who is a better overall defender than Kyle, and the switching possibilities become ridiculous.
Edit: could work against the warriors if they're sitting cousins though.Last edited by inthepaint; Sat Jul 28, 2018, 11:58 PM.
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What I like most about the roster as it stands, is the potential flexibility in both the starting lineup and bench lineup.
For the starting lineup, Lowry and Leonard might be the only guaranteed starters each night. Depending on matchups, any combination of JV, Ibaka, Anunoby and Green might fill the other 3 spots.
For the second unit, the starting lineup for each game would obviously change the makeup of the bench mob. In addition to Van Vleet, Wright, Miles, Siakam and the odd man out from the starters, they'd also have Powell and potentially another big (I've read rumors about Greg Monroe, or they could bring Bebe back) to work with.
Both the starting and backup lineups could go big, small or traditional, and could have a ton of offensive firepower or be full of defensive stoppers. If all the players buy-in to the team-first approach that Nurse seems to be selling on his travels to visit with each player, the upcoming season could be a lot of fun!
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CalgaryRapsFan wrote: View PostWhat I like most about the roster as it stands, is the potential flexibility in both the starting lineup and bench lineup.
For the starting lineup, Lowry and Leonard might be the only guaranteed starters each night. Depending on matchups, any combination of JV, Ibaka, Anunoby and Green might fill the other 3 spots.
For the second unit, the starting lineup for each game would obviously change the makeup of the bench mob. In addition to Van Vleet, Wright, Miles, Siakam and the odd man out from the starters, they'd also have Powell and potentially another big (I've read rumors about Greg Monroe, or they could bring Bebe back) to work with.
Both the starting and backup lineups could go big, small or traditional, and could have a ton of offensive firepower or be full of defensive stoppers. If all the players buy-in to the team-first approach that Nurse seems to be selling on his travels to visit with each player, the upcoming season could be a lot of fun!
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LJ2 wrote: View PostOh God, I hope not. Can you imagine how disgruntled the players would be if they didn't know what their roles would be from game to game? I like the flexibility of this roster as well, but I don't think Nurse is going to be changing the starting line-up that often. He will probably try a few variations in the preseason to see what works and what doesn't and then settle in for the most part. In game adjustments are probably where he will try new things.
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LJ2 wrote: View PostOh God, I hope not. Can you imagine how disgruntled the players would be if they didn't know what their roles would be from game to game? I like the flexibility of this roster as well, but I don't think Nurse is going to be changing the starting line-up that often. He will probably try a few variations in the preseason to see what works and what doesn't and then settle in for the most part. In game adjustments are probably where he will try new things.
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Nilanka wrote: View PostIt sounds like Nurse will be tinkering with the lineup for the first ~20-30 games of the season. With the lofty regular season win totals from years' past being meaningless, Raps seem to have their focus on finding their best lineups in preparation for April...and taking however long it takes to do so.
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Nilanka wrote: View PostIt sounds like Nurse will be tinkering with the lineup for the first ~20-30 games of the season. With the lofty regular season win totals from years' past being meaningless, Raps seem to have their focus on finding their best lineups in preparation for April...and taking however long it takes to do so.
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