I guess I'll be the one to bear the burden of starting this thread (please don't negative spork me too bad, hahaha), since our roster is now in all likelihood set after PBJ's decision to go to Milwaukee. So I'll ask the question here that almost every other thread seems to devolve into during the off-season... how do we see the minutes distribution next year?
I'll give my own best guess, that will more than likely be horribly wrong, first. I'll do so not using the 1-5 positions as traditionally defined, but the more modern definition of ballhandler, wing, and big. I'm also thinking about this as averages over the whole year... i.e., I don't think Wendell will play 5 mpg at the backup point guard, but there'll be games where he plays very little there and games where he plays there for longer stretches that'll average to 5 mpg.
Starters:
Ballhandler: Jeremy Roach (33 minutes)
Wings: Wendell Moore (28 minutes), AJ Griffin (25 minutes)
Bigs: Paolo Banchero (32 minutes), Mark Williams (33 minutes)
Bench/
Perturbations
Ballhandler: Wendell (5 minutes), Jaylen Blakes (2 minutes)
Wings: Trevor Keels (20 minutes), Joey Baker (7 minutes)
Bigs: AJ Griffin (5 minutes), Theo John (10 minutes), Bates Jones (emergency)
What's exciting about this team is its versatility... there could be times where we play Mark and Theo alongside each other as "bigs" and Paolo plays on the wing for a bit, for instance. Hard to account for all those
perturbations in a straightforward prediction like this.
So, there it is. I've taken the bullet and started the conversation that will likely consume the board until football season starts. Tell me why I'm horribly, horribly wrong