Your posts on this topic are so disingenuous.
It's not about playing a single player x amount of minutes or hiding a 6th man of the year.
It's testing out your roster for different looks and different changes of pace so you're not reliant on any one thing and ultimately predictable.
You have your core players. You have your starters and you have your closers. This is about the in-between, when the team is struggling to get a bucket. When the only optin seems be ISO/Hero ball.
Idiot pundits look at the game the Celtics had after JT went down and question if they're better without him. They'll look at game 6 and use it as proof positive they aren't. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
You have a roster of 12 players with different skills and rather than shuffle lineups to see what you have in its totality over a season, you stick to a core 7 or 8 unless given reason not. It makes you predictable. And if you're predictable and undeniable, great. If you're predictable and flawed, it's a fukking problem.
Maybe you play Dadiet or Huk or Precious or Kolek extended minutes because they have a skill set that works better in certain match ups more than others. Maybe you feature your stars differently based on matchups and bring different guys off the bench that offset those stars' flaws.
Or maybe you just keep mashing the same hammer into the wall and hope for the best because "
they don't have a 6MOTY on the bench nikka!"
