re: Austin Rivers is delusional

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Yeah I'm sure you know more about the rotation than a guy on the team.

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I've been one of Rivers bigger defenders on this board. That being said Monty has actually been pretty open about what he wants in his rotation. At the end of the season last year he complained about Vasquez and Aminu not creating the space he needed to let Gordon run the offense more. This year he's talked about wanting to pair Tyreke with Anderson and Smith to give Tyreke space to attack the basket. Monty wants to pair creators with floor spacers, it's NBA 101 these days. It looks like Aminu and Stiemsma are starting, so where Rivers is on the depth chart depends entirely on how much space he can create. Would he be a better match with the starting unit that Tyreke? Perhaps. Is he going to be better than Morrow? That doesn't seem very likely because between Holiday and Aminu you can hide Morrow on defense and he's one of the top 3 point shooters in the league.

I've already said many times that the best case scenario for the Pelicans is Rivers making Gordon expendable, so I'd love for him to start and excel at SG, but I just don't see it happening, at least not at the beginning of the season.