Andrew Schlecht

They really need to figure out the non-shame minutes anyways.

And so this gives them a very extended look.

There's always non-shame minutes in every single game.

That happens all the time.

But you don't usually get 48 minutes of it in consecutive weeks.

And so I do think that this is them trying to figure this out.

You're trying to get Jared McCain in the game and see what he can do.

You're trying to stretch Isaiah Joe and see what is he fully capable of.

You use Isaiah Hartenstein, who's another guy who's been a good passer for them, as this screener, passer, a guy that can initiate offense for you.

So they're trying all sorts of things.

Even Nikola Topic, he played eight minutes today.

They weren't particularly impactful minutes, but you're just kind of seeing what you have.

And when you have everybody healthy, I don't know that there's minutes to do that.

You're probably using those eight minutes for Jared McCain.

you know, to see what he's got there.

So it does like allow for them to use everybody on their roster because you look up and down the roster, go look at basketball reference.

One through 15 are all guys that can play.

They would probably play on almost any team.

And so it is good for them to figure it out.

And especially, like I said, with Shea off the floor and you have the two bigs, that's going to be a lineup that they'll use in the postseason.