Hawkins on the bench?

Hawk playing 2-3 minutes at a time would be an absolute disaster, he’s the type of guy that needs more minutes to shoot himself into a rhythm

If Aaron Wiggins and Isiah Joe can play for OKC in the playoffs, Hawkins can play for us.


There was a point last night where BI/CJ/Trey/JV weren't in the game and AD said where's th offense supposed to come from?

Hawkins had the highest Points Per Possession on the team coming off screens at 1.26 this year. BI was next at 1.2, and we did run some of that last night for him but Dort was literally in his jock strap on those plays.
How difficult is it to give him some run and let him take 2 or 3 threes? If he looks good, then leave him in, if he's not ready then he's not ready.
I think it would be beyond stupid to play a playoff series without Zion and Hawkins doesn't touch the court. We ain't winning the championship this year, so let everyone get the experience they need here. If he's not ready, at least he'll know what he'll need to do this offseason, as well as next season when he plays, but if he doens't get to experience playoff basketball at all then it'll be rather difficult to work on what's needed this offseeason.

Teams generally run 8-9 man rotations in the playoffs. Pels staff decided (and impact stats back them up) that Hawk is not ready for playoff basketball as a rookie. Pels oddly gave Dyson 3 minutes of run last night as our 9th, but teams typically do not do that and I think Dyson gets more of those Jose minutes in Game 2.

OKC ran a regular season rotation in Game 1 (11 players) which I think tells you more of what they thought about us than evidence for using a deeper playoff rotation. I wouldn't mind getting Hawk the development of playoff minutes, but the staff are trying to/think we can win the series, so they play Naji instead.

You’re not randomly playing a guy 2-3 minutes unless something’s going wrong