Luis Medina

I think it's great to get as much out of him as you can before he has to leave for the World Baseball Classic because Japan, last I checked, they could probably be in it to win it and therefore in it for the long haul.

Murakami, now you know and knowing is half the battle.

G.I.

Joe.

Murakami and the rest of the Japanese players, they leave a week from today.

So you got seven days, well really six days to figure it out.

I'll be able to tell you a lot more about that tank after we find out what kind of minutes restriction Josh Giddey is on his first game back.

Maybe Jalen Smith is on a little bit of a minutes restriction.

Maybe you don't roll out Colin Sexton in the starting lineup because of that.

Maybe you do start Patrick Williams for the rest of the season.

Yeah, you'll be able to tell pretty quickly.

Are Rob Dillingham and Jaden Ivey getting the lion's share of minutes?

Are they playing 25, 30 minutes a game?

That could be the tell right there.

Ivey in his last game played 29 minutes.

Dillingham played 30 minutes.

That needs to continue.

And with Josh Giddey in action, and apparently...

You look around and see that other players are close to coming back, like Trey Jones.

We're going to find out what the intention is.