Starting line-up

Scrap the Terry idea.  He is too small and it aint gonna do anything.  We have seen that lineup before, and it doesnt work.  Fisher has a great proposal that I have really wanted too see all year, but havent because of matchups.  Well against the likes of teams with bigger front courts such as NO and LA especially, this proposed line up would work to our advanatage IMO.

A NEW STARTING LINEUP?: There is a fine line between “tinkering’’ and “correcting,’’ between “panicking’’ and “adjusting.’’ Stack vs. Jet is already an issue at the starting 2. Backup center must give Avery brain cramps. It could be argued that you leave Bass right where he is, right in the same role in which he’s been effective. …

   Or it could be argued that you start him.

   I’m thinking more deeply into the notion I tossed out at midnight after the loss, Bass as a first-teamer. It would mean J-Ho playing the 2. It would mean a commitment to playing Damp huge minutes. It would mean supplemental-at-best roles for Stack and Jet. It could mean no roles at all for Eddie and Devean. (Is this really a bad thing?)

   Again, add up some minutes: If you buy the idea of letting Brandon Bass be an anchor, you’re talking about 40-plus for Dirk, Kidd, Josh and now Bass. That’s 170 minutes. Damp gets 30. That’s 200. There are just 40 left, so 20 each for Jet and Stack, with Malik and the others getting a spot sniff, and you’re done.

   A seven-man rotation, with a reliance on Bass over Stack and Jet and the feeling that, hey, let’s put Josh as the 2 because he couldn’t do any worse.

And a starting lineup that includes an infusion of youth, plenty of offense, and maybe some match-up-ability on defense: Kidd on Mo-Pete, J-Ho on Paul, Bass on West, Dirk on Peja, and Damp on Chandler.

   Avery, Byron Scott IS still waiting on that tricky chess move of yours, you know.

   It’s radical – no more radical that Avery starting last year’s playoffs in GS without Damp – but radical nevertheless

Now before we over react here... why couldnt this be done?  Why has this lineup NEVER been used?  It puts us at a HUGE advantage at every position... especially with with NO who has a big front line. 

Because of Dirk's ankle, I think he would fair much better out on the defensive end, because Peja aint gonna attack him like West does.  Bass is quick enough to stay with West and body him up much more so than Dirk is, but because Avery never really plays the three of them together (Damp, Dirk, Damp) who knows if that could clog the paint up a little more than we have been. There is no need for Josh to follow Peja around... anyone can put a hand in a jump shooters face.  Keep Howard on Paul.

So we would matchup like this...

1. Kidd vs Mo
2. J5 vs CP3
3. Dirk vs Peja
4. Bass vs West
5. Damp vs Chandler

Bass is/has been our 2nd best player right now... we need to exploit that even more.  Agreed?  Now you ask who do we bring off the bench?  Like Fish suggests up here, we rarely bring in anyone else outside of Allen, Terry and Jet... No one else.  Please Avery, we are begging you.

No more tinkering with line-ups.  No more Juawn, Lue and Jones... Maybe a touch of George if we need it... but it better be because someone is in foul trouble.  Funny thing about this line up is also, it matches up against phx (front court of Hill who is 6'9", Amare and Shaq), LA (Lamar 6'`10", Gasol, Bynumn) and Utah (Boozer, AK 6'9", and Memo) even really well IMO.   Its a line up that has-too/should be visited at some point on Friday and Sunday.

What do you guys think?