re: Wild West Playoffs Thread 04/28 - NOP @ GSW - Game 1 - 04/28 9:30 ET on TNT #StillFlockin

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I really don't think there's a solution for that other than play Diallo/Okafor over Hill. Here are the rebounds by player from game 1. AD 14 Niko 11 Rondo 8 Jrue 7 Miller 4 Diallo 2 Moore 2 Clark 1 Hill 0 I don't think you can expect much more from the top 4. Give Hill's 6 minutes to Diallo or Okafor and you have 1-2 more rebounds. That's about all you can really do.

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This doesn't really make sense. The top 4 all played at least 39 minutes in a game where the opposition took 98 shots at at 37.8%. Just looking at their raw totals doesn't give a great idea of how well they rebounded. We gave up 15 offensive rebounds, with them on the court for a ton.

Now perhaps its part of the trade-off. We played our stud front-court guys for 40 minutes each while Portland opted to play fresh, but have a far inferior fresh Zach Collins taking some of Nurkic' minutes. Reasonable that we'll get beat on the glass playing our starters such heavy minutes.