On a back to back all starters played 33+ mins (besides grimes who hit 3 in a row and didn’t see the ball again). Thibs always had this problem with his rotations and with this being the 3rd back to back of a 10 game season I really think he has to adjust some things I know rj was out but I feel there wasn’t any reason why McBride couldn’t check in or Sims.
Yes, it was a B2B. But it was a night game after a day game and the team had 3 days off before that. Besides, the bench really didn’t play well last night, as Alan Hahn pointed out. They were outplayed by Boston’s bench. Given more time to limited offensive players wouldn’t have helped much on balance, even if they might have played better defense.
In any event, whose “staters” minutes would McBride have taken? You already think Grimes should have gotten more burn. Would you have sat Brunson more? IQ?
Same question for Sims. I guess you could argue that he could have taken some of JHart’s minutes (when he was in for Randle) but what would he have added defensively or offensively that Hart didn’t? And JHart and Randle had the best +/- numbers on the team so why would you cut either of their minutes?