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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 4220676, member: 1047"] Honestly this may sound crazy, but I like getting Adama off floor early and shifting Whaley to 5 , and having Polley or Hawkins come in. It helps our early offensive flow in my opinion . And then some great substitution rotations can start. I’m just of the opinion that while our starting lineup is very good defensively, we get kinda stuck offensively out of the gate frequently. Everyone knows we are dumping into Adama first 4 minutes of every game. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but I feel that when we get into rhythm with Whaley at 5, when Adama comes back in teams have a hard time adjusting because we’ve seemed to gain some rhythm. I’m not a fan of all 5 starters playing first 7-8 minutes because then it seems that we get gaff/Polley/hawkins, with either Whaley or Sanogo , and Martin or Akok . And then that lineup coming in cold has trouble. We’ve been much more effective last 5 games because Hurley has been mixing and matching the starters better with Polley and hawkins, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they both have become more effective in that span. So sometimes ( like today) Sanogo’s 2 quick fouls are half a blessing, as it forces the mix and match to start sooner. We were stuck offensively the first 4 minutes today and then Adama got second foul and things started moving. This isn’t to say Adama isn’t so valuable to this team, he is so valuable, on both ends. I just like our floor balance better when we are not doing hockey line changes, and running good sub patterns . [/QUOTE]

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