Paulo Alves

And especially if Rich Hubbard struggles as well.

I could see him, you know...

giving him minutes in the playoff series in place of him, especially because I do think that Aaron Holliday is a significantly better defender than Henry Kepard is, and a significantly better spacer than the other two are.

So yeah, going into the playoffs, I would not expect them to get regular rotation minutes.

I would not be surprised if Aaron Holliday did, but I do expect him to go back to...

Akogi and Dorian Finney-Smith at least a little bit before, you know, just discarding that in the next few regular season games before, you know, moving on from that.

If you do, like, if you don't play Dorian Finney-Smith in the playoffs, what does that do to him?

Not to him, but to his value and to...

management of him as an asset uh not that that's the utmost priority i mean depending on what your expectations for the playoffs it might be if you think it's lost anyway uh but going to the offseason and he's a guy that you just didn't play the last in the most important games of the season when you clearly had space for him to play in the rotation uh you know how does that work

And the other choice, I guess, is to just shorten the rotation even more and to play the current guys even more minutes.

I don't think Imei would be scared to go into an 8-man rotation and, you know, just cut some of those guys off completely.

I hope he doesn't do that because I really do think some of the ridiculously awful turnovers that we see late in games are because some guys are a little bit short on juice.

So I hope with this particular team and its tendency for turnovers and big spots that they're mindful of minutes, even in the playoffs, you know, try not to go 40 plus for any of the regulars, because if they're already a little bit turnover prone, then being gas can take you from being somewhat turnover prone to just being

ridiculous plays like we saw, especially late in overtime in Minnesota.

I'm curious, you mentioned being bearish on Tate.

I'm a little higher on him, especially if you pair him with Aaron Holiday, who can shoot threes and space the floor.

I think sometimes Tate can be a tough fit if there's not enough shooting around him.

I think if you have Holiday to help the team from a three-point volume perspective, that might can make Tate a little more playable.

But if it's not Tate and it's not eight-man rotation, and we should mention, obviously, Clint Capella, at least to a small degree, is going to soak up some minutes as the backup center.

Do you think it's DFS or Josh Jacoby who would get those Tate minutes as the other backup forward beyond Tariq?