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Camden0916 wrote:

60WinTim wrote:I guess the game notes list the probably starters:

Russell, Beasley, Okogie, Layman, KAT

I can't say I have a problem with that...

My guess is that we will see multiple starting lineups over the course of pre-season with this being one of them. Is Juan Hernangomez not playing tonight?

I'd guess they are going with Layman Tonight since Juancho and others were late to get in because of Covid protocols or whatever. Maybe Layman is really doing well in practices and maybe doing some good things of defense. In theory Layman has the skill set to be an excellent complimentary player for this team maybe even as a starter at a forward spot. MAYBE he puts that together this year. That would be a pretty big deal. I'm not reading much of anything into this preseason start though but it's certainly a little interesting.

Starting lineup
Russell
Beasley
Okogie
Layman
Kat

Naz and Brown out because not with the team because of Covid protocols

monsterpile wrote:

Camden0916 wrote:

60WinTim wrote:I guess the game notes list the probably starters:

Russell, Beasley, Okogie, Layman, KAT

I can't say I have a problem with that...

My guess is that we will see multiple starting lineups over the course of pre-season with this being one of them. Is Juan Hernangomez not playing tonight?

I'd guess they are going with Layman Tonight since Juancho and others were late to get in because of Covid protocols or whatever. Maybe Layman is really doing well in practices and maybe doing some good things of defense. In theory Layman has the skill set to be an excellent complimentary player for this team maybe even as a starter at a forward spot. MAYBE he puts that together this year. That would be a pretty big deal. I'm not reading much of anything into this preseason start though but it's certainly a little interesting.

I hadn't thought about the COVID protocols, but Hernangomez has been running around in practice around other players so that wouldn't make much sense to me.

I think we'll see Layman at both forward spots during the season, but his lack of rebounding makes him a poor fit next to Towns as a four.

Camden wrote:

monsterpile wrote:

Camden0916 wrote:

60WinTim wrote:I guess the game notes list the probably starters:

Russell, Beasley, Okogie, Layman, KAT

I can't say I have a problem with that...

My guess is that we will see multiple starting lineups over the course of pre-season with this being one of them. Is Juan Hernangomez not playing tonight?

I'd guess they are going with Layman Tonight since Juancho and others were late to get in because of Covid protocols or whatever. Maybe Layman is really doing well in practices and maybe doing some good things of defense. In theory Layman has the skill set to be an excellent complimentary player for this team maybe even as a starter at a forward spot. MAYBE he puts that together this year. That would be a pretty big deal. I'm not reading much of anything into this preseason start though but it's certainly a little interesting.

I hadn't thought about the COVID protocols, but Hernangomez has been running around in practice around other players so that wouldn't make much sense to me.

I think we'll see Layman at both forward spots during the season, but his lack of rebounding makes him a poor fit next to Towns as a four.

Yeah, he has been practicing lately, but he was not practicing the first few practices because of the COVID protocols. Apparently we should not read too much into who starts tonight.

kekgeek1 wrote:Starting lineup
Russell
Beasley
Okogie
Layman
Kat

Naz and Brown out because not with the team because of Covid protocols

Interesting. Does anyone think that Saunders plans on tinkering with anything but the 4? I don't think you start Ricky coming off the bench without thinking long and hard about it and talking to him. And I think most folks had Okogie penciled in as the starting 3, so I think that sticks.

So to me the only one that is in flux is the 4. Hopefully they aren't putting too much stock in that limited sample size of player pairing info from last year where KAT and Layman did really well. That's nice and all, but not a big enough sample size.

I'm so glad basketball is back.

KAT will be KAT on the hardwood. He looks great. Let's not worry about him.

Me too...actually like this starting 5 also

Not a whole lot of ball movement so far

Okogie doing Okogie things good and bad.