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At the end of the games you need to have another scorer here. Teams don't have to guard rubio or brewer so teams can double down on pek and love, and martin is more of a spot up shooter.

The rare time Bud was healthy last year early in the season, he was awesome especially at the end of games. Example against the pacers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4s3v7hrrc

Bud can shoot the three, has a little better handle then martin as he can actually drive to the basket. He isn't going to hurt defensively.

Keep brew as the starter and keep bud on the bench to help scoring there, but at end of games rolling with Love-Pek-Martin-Rubio-Bud makes me feel a lot more comfortable

I hope Bud starts at some point over the next 10 games. Brewer is perfect coming off the bench.

bleedspeed177 wrote:I hope Bud starts at some point over the next 10 games. Brewer is perfect coming off the bench.

not with this bench. you have to have someone on the bench who can score

I've said multiple times I'd like to see both Brewer and Budinger off the bench with Mbah a Moute starting. But for the sake of Bud or Brewer...

Budinger needs to see more time with Rubio than Brewer does. Chase should be shooting those wide open corner threes instead of Corey. It also creates more space for Pekovic and Love when he's down low. Defenders have been sagging off Brewer to come double the post player. Think we'll see this switch whenever Bud has several weeks under his belt and no setbacks.

Budinger helped the bench last night and it showed. He was signed to be a potential starter. Brewer has positives, but also his glaring negatives. Budinger is the perfect complementing player to Rubio because he moves so well off the ball, but if we move Brewer to the second line, do we reduce the positive spacing creating by the threat of Budinger?

questions, so many questions....

Adelman has tried a few different lineups to end games, to try to figure out how to what combination of players result in victories. I'm sure that he will start trying Bud into the line up. He knows that playing the starters doesn't work.

Playing BREWER doesn't work. I think bud solves a lot of our problems in late games. He spaces the floor for pek, gives Ricky another outlet for playmaking, and bud can handle and pass a lot better than Corey. Chase is a huge upgrade, and I hope he starts seeing major end of game minutes. Brewer isn't even very effective on defense anyways.

Bud is on a minutes restriction for the next few weeks until his next check-up. It will be difficult to get him minutes to get into rhythm and play him at the end of games as well. I agree though that he fits well with the starts at end of game situations