re: Lonzo Starting

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Honestly I think I'd prefer to see Lonzo and JJ as our starting guards and let Bledsoe run the "second team".

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I say keep getting some more data and tape and then play around.

Personally I think there’s a case both ways.

With Bledsoe and JJ you have two legit half court facilitators in Bledsoe and Ingram and the additional, reliable, outlet spacer Bledsoe desperately lacks with his play style. Bledsoe is also currently the better and more consistent defender.

With Lonzo you are going to be leaning a lot more on Ingram as your half court facilitator which Wednesday showed might not be a bad thing, with Ingram then having one great and one streaky outlet option in JJ and Lonzo as opposed to two streaky, neither well respected by defenders shooters. But that lineup than consequentially lacks the additional perimeter playmaker that is nice to have to use Adams elite screen setting and set Ingram and Zion up off ball. As Lonzo is not good shooting off the dribble(Bledsoe is) or in the half court and Reddick isn’t a PnR ball handler.

All three choices have benefits and trade offs and I think it’s simply going to take time to find out which combination works best.