Well, if I follow your logic, if Sefolosha and Green are the solution, why isn’t it being done? I’ll tell you, because Sef can’t score and because Green is already getting his minutes at four. There are absolutely minutes and a need for a scoring three behind Durant. It would mean cutting Durant back a bit, cutting back Sef and cutting back Green at the three. Deal with it guys, you are professionals.

It’s really crazy to run that second unit (Colly, Etan, Harden and Ollie) with our biggest minute starter.

One thing you could check is how much the game’s defense varies from league average Defensive efficiency. If it is 10 points up or down then net the opponent’s offense or the Thunder defense appears to have been 5 baskets better or worse than average. If your defensive ratings are exactly +5 lower or -5 than this then it would be saying the defense was soley responsible for these less or more baskets. But since there can be good offensive plays that you might feel the defense shouldn’t take “blame” for (and I agree there will be such plays) the amounts can vary but ideally they would vary by the amount of good offensive plays. If the difference between the game’s Defensive efficiency and league average is bigger or smaller than your net Defensive score (total positives – total negatives) then there might be more or less defensive plays to grade as bad or good.

If you want. But your impressions without a real strict accounting system still has value.

Jeff Green has tried for half his NBA career to play the 4. His entire PJ tenure he played the 3. His matchup advantage has been his quickness, to get around the traditional 4’s or draw them out to the 3 point line to open up the lane for someone else. It works wonders when he plays guys like Carlos Boozer. However, when he plays Houston, and every guy on that team other than Aaron Brooks is 6′6” to 6′9” and is as quick as he is, he loses his advantage. Ideally, he would go to his post-up game at that point, but he never did. Jeff took a few 3’s where he was open enough, but he wasn’t hitting. He tried to drive a few times and every once in a while he was successful. But you never saw him successful posting up in the low block.

Mostly what I’m trying to say is that it looks like Houston’s personnel takes away Jeff’s matchup advantage.

The same is kind of true for Russell. In the last game he posted Brooks up several times successfully, which caused Aaron to hit the bench so someone else could take that option away. But last night this wasn’t explored much.

f5alcon :DJ white scored at will def deserves more minutes when we need points

YOu know why he only played three minutes I presume . . .

Vince :Yeah, I don’t think a backup 3 is really a pressing need here. We can very easily run a 9-man rotation with KD playing (for argument’s sake) 36 minutes a game with the other 12 going to Green — if we want to go big — or Sefalosha if we want to play a bit smaller. If you get a backup 3 his minutes are going to be coming from Ibaka, White, and Harden, not necessarily from KD. KD isn’t playing 45 minutes because we don’t have a backup 3; he’s playing 45 minutes because we don’t have (or Brooks hasn’t found) a unit without him in which Brooks has confidence.

agree . . . we don’t need a backup three – We already need to find more minutes for Harden – having Thabo play more at the three (along with Green ) would do – Harden can even play there for 2-3 minutes if necessary . . .