re: Any recent NBA examples of 2 bench guys on same team that avg'd "starter mins"?

I think this strategy will work well. If you remember last year, we were always very competitive in the first quarter. Then the second unit came in agaisnt the other teams second unit and we slipped up.

Also remember, at times we had some pretty bad starting lineups, but we were still competitive. Factoring that in, we should still be highly competitve starters vs starters. Our starting lineup should also be improved from last year. Then you put in a really good second unit, and you keep the strong start, and hopefully improve on it. we shouldn't see the big dropoff that regularly happened last year when our second unit was in.