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[QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 4098889, member: 34"]
And when he mentioned Hawkins he said the starting 9 or core 9 or something.  Basically saying Diggins and Johnson are on the outside looking in for minutes and they'll have to fight to get those minutes.  I'll take it.  The nine man rotation he'll have will have plenty of flexibility to go with hot hands, match ups, foul trouble or injuries.

Biggest takeaways was stating the bench will shorten.  He talked about players needing to get their game cardio up to 30 mpg level needed.

He also talked about intentionally using Gaff and Akok with the second stringers so that those two are used to being "the man" for the blue team against the starters.  Keeps them in an aggressive mode while playing against starters which should translate in to playing well against opponents.

Also gave good insight in to why it is who he has starting.  Talked about the length and physicality to set and then says starters failed to do that at beginning of each half.

Overall, I took it as one of Hurley's more direct press conferences giving specifics and pulling back the curtain a bit.
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