Flip's motivation for bench development (THREAD NOW RE-NAMED!!)

[Glenn]

Tricky question.

Is Flip trying to develop the bench...

A. ...so they can actually play and contribute in the playoffs

or

B. ...so they can contribute in the regular season, resting the starters, so the starters can play a ton of minutes in the playoffs

You can answer "both" if you'd like to, since the question is poorly worded.

[Hermy]

B I hope. They're awful.

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

B

[Timone]

C

[WTFchris]

I think it's B, at least this year. Max will still get time, but I bet the minutes are cut for the other bench members.

[geerussell]

Simple question.



Don't even try to answer "both".

Which is it?

"Are you still beating your wife?" Simple question. Yes or no.

I have to reject the question on the bench and answer that it depends. Maxiell's minutes are set in stone for the playoffs. Everyone else is up for grabs depending on how they play between now and then, who they have to match up against in a playoff series and how they play from game to game in a given series.

No matter what Flip might want in terms of using his bench in the playoffs, individual guys have still got to step up and produce on the court and the jury is still out on whether they can or will do so.

[Timone]

A chicken or egg question isn't a simple one by the way.

[WTFchris]

It's also a "which came first" question. Glen's question is cause and effect question.

[Timone]

Glenn, what did they teach you at MSU?

[Glenn]

For fuck's sake, all I was trying to do was to make you guys take a position on a topic, which is never an easy task.

Personally, I think that the playoff rotation is going tighten right up to where it was in previous years.

It's really starting to feel like the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Just like you guys nitpicking my posts, lol