Wolves Regular Season Rotation

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

What it's going to be:

1: D'Angelo Russell
2: Malik Beasley
3: Josh Okogie
4: Jake Layman
5: Karl-Anthony Towns

6: Ricky Rubio
7: Anthony Edwards
8: Juan Hernangomez
9: Jarrett Culver
10: Naz Reid

What it should be:

1: Ricky Rubio
2: D'Angelo Russell
3: Jarrett Culver
4: Rondae Hollis-Jefferson
5: Karl-Anthony Towns

6: Malik Beasley
7: Anthony Edwards
8: Jordan McLaughlin
9: Jake Layman
10: Naz Reid

[Monster]

My only issue with the rotation would be if Ryan and the staff aren't willing to adjust it after some point in time. I'm ok with Beasley in there as the starting SG he seems motivated to keep that spot or just competing in general. Let someone come take it from him.

If RHJ isn't getting minutes I think that's what would bother me the most unless the other guys are playing well. He just brings some legit juice this team needs. It would be nice to have some guys in RHJ Okogie and even Culver that people don't want to play against. Beasley might not succeed in being that type of guy but he is trying. This team hasn't had many guys that are able to dish it out. I wouldn't mind having some of those guys actually do it. Ed Davis if he can still play mixes it up too.

[worldK]

The 1st regular season game is going to be key in determining the rotation.

Beasley is suspended right? That is one open spot on opening day.

Also, no way saunders start layman vs blake. Detroit is starting grant/blake/plumlee. Ryan is insane if he goes okogie/layman/towns.

I can see rhj getting a start on opening night over okogie. It will be between edwards or okogie who gets malik's spot.

Possible lineup is layman/rhj/towns/dlo/okogie but I strongly prefer a

Layman/rhj/towns/dlo/edwards lineup on opening night.

They can switch okogie with layman/rhj the next game depending on how the 1st game go.

Best case scenario is edwards gets the start on opening night and have a good 2 game run and hopefully continue to start with beasley coming off the bench.

My prefer rotation for our current lineup would be

Culver
rhj
towns
dlo
edwards

bench:
okogie
layman/juancho
reid
rubio
beasley

Thats 11man already. I dont see the wolves benching juancho and I believe rhj should get the start and layman has played better than juancho so far.

[Leado01]

I'm not concerned with starting lineups or positions ... and with the extremely abbreviated training camp I don't know how our coaching staff could be either.

Some of the players on this team clearly came into camp in very good condition...others did not.

We have two starters with KAT and DLO.

Beasley can bring value as a starter... but may be better suited to play with the much faster pace of play with better ball movement 2nd Unit.

Other than that and 22 minutes somewhere for Rubio, EVERYONE should be fighting for time on the floor and my guess is we will see just about every possible combination of line-ups imaginable.

I'm not even moderately concerned with Juancho, he's barely been with the team.

I'm not worried about Edwards...he's gotten zero time with pro players until two weeks ago.

I'm not ruling out Ed Davis playing a significant role...

It will be at least the middle of January before we have ANY idea what this team can do... you can make the playoffs running 50% PNR...I know that's not Rosa's desire but who cares?

One more note...let Edwards develop please... does anyone remember player development? Not sure who worked with Culver in off-season, but preseason smell test is that his stock is rising.

[60WinTim]

Rubio was asked if he is open to coming off the bench in his intro press conference. He seemed caught off guard by the question, and ended up responding with something like "as long as we are winning, sure".

Rubio has come off the bench exactly one time since 2013 -- probably related to a return from injury. The Wolves depth could prove to be a source of conflict for the young and inexperienced Saunders...

[Monster]

My only issue was if RHJ wasn't in the rotation...sigh...

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

What it's going to be:

1: D'Angelo Russell
2: Malik Beasley
3: Josh Okogie
4: Jake Layman
5: Karl-Anthony Towns

6: Ricky Rubio
7: Anthony Edwards
8: Juan Hernangomez
9: Jarrett Culver
10: Naz Reid

Rondae Hollis-Jefferson didn't fit the system... clearly.

[Lipoli390]

What it's going to be:

1: D'Angelo Russell
2: Malik Beasley
3: Josh Okogie
4: Jake Layman
5: Karl-Anthony Towns

6: Ricky Rubio
7: Anthony Edwards
8: Juan Hernangomez
9: Jarrett Culver
10: Naz Reid

Rondae Hollis-Jefferson didn't fit the system... clearly.

Cam - Since neither KAT nor DLO fits the system, I could expect both of them to be released soon. :)

[Lipoli390]

Quote from Glen Taylor:

"I think I expect playoffs," said Taylor, who also owns the Star Tribune. "We're in a really tough division, but I think we really have a good team. By that I mean, what we have done is we aren't relying on four or five players. I just think the way that we have put this team together that the first unit or second unit should go in and be very competitive with the groups that they need to compete against."


The most telling part was this: "what we have done is we aren't relying on four or five players." That's a key feature of the Gersson Rosas/Ryan Saunders system - quantity. I'm not aware of any other NBA team in recent history, if ever, who won with depth. What everyone else seems to know is that it's actually your top five players, especially your top 3, that determine success in the NBA. Rosas has been pouring the Cool-Aide and Glen's been drinking it - which is what what always happens with each PBO he hires.

[apollotsg [enjin:6592798]]

What they start with:
G: DLO
G: Rubio
G: Beasley
F: Layman
C: Towns

G: Edwards
G: Culver
G: Okogie
C: Davis
F: Hernangomez
C: Reid
G: Nowell

What I would do:
G: DLO
G: Beasley
G: Okogie
F: Layman or Davis (matchup dependent)
C: Towns

I do a full hockey shift with the guards
G: Rubio
G: Edwards
G: Culver

I sub in Reid for Towns when I need to pull him, I think Reid is going to have a small breakout for us, he plays a bit like Towns with a better pick.
C: Reid

F: Davis/Layman This would be a game dependent rotation, would consider going four guards as well

These two are my reserves
G: Nowell
F: Vanderbilt