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Last year's team showed it could win more with offensive small ball, and Monty showed he'd rather lose his way than play to the roster's strengths.

This is talking out of both sides of your mouth. Who was the coach when the team "showed it could win more with offensive small ball"? We had a respectable record with a pretty bad roster for most of the year.

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Asik is one of the best defensive centers in the league. He and AD should be able to cause enough chaos that we may not mind if Asik gets some of Ryno's minutes. Now if Asik was getting Ryno's minutes while Aminu was in the game instead of a competent offensive player, then you've got problems. But even Salmons over Tyreke in that situation might make sense. The rotation minutes we might end up complaining about most this year could be Tyreke vs Gordon. Who do you play with the twin towers?

I agree with all of this. I'm still not sure how I feel about Tyreke's fit with this team. At this point, I don't expect him to learn to hit jumpers, so he almost needs a stretch 4 to earn his money. Salmons/Davis/Asik and Evans/Anderson are both much better options than Evans/Davis/Asik. Evans/Asik will be this year's watered down version of Chief Steamer.

Evans/Anderson/Asik should be passable in situations.

I assume you're calling Davis/Asik the Twin Towers.

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:56 am to Galactic Inquisitor

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Monty played Brian Roberts, a far superior offensive player, over Austin Rivers, a far superior defensive player.

That's because offense vs. defense is clearly number 2 on Monty's Coaching Flow Chart that he uses when you have people of similar talent levels.

1. Humble Veteran > Arrogant Kid
2. Defense > Offense
3. Rebounding > Shooting/Spacing
4. React to other team, ie Small Ball only on teams without a legit big.

I came up with this tongue in cheek several months back, but I think it's pretty accurate based on what we've seen. It will be interesting to see Ryno vs. Asik, because this chart says Asik will get more minutes.

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This is talking out of both sides of your mouth. Who was the coach when the team "showed it could win more with offensive small ball"?

That's if you assume the times he played small ball were by design, but for the most part they weren't. There were a few times MCFC #4 came up, but the other times that it was employed, injury forced Monty that direction.