Fixing the Blazers

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Trade Bazemore.

Stop playing Tolliver completely. Trade as throw-in or waive.

Start Hezonja until they make a trade.

Melo off bench for no more than 10-15 minutes. And probably give up on it unless it surprises.

A Simons maybe to 30 minutes per game. With starters as much as possible. Stop playing Trent completely.

Play Whiteside mostly with the bench. Play LaBissierie more.

Shoot more 3s, less mid-range.

Cut the fouls. 30th on committing fouls.

Little to the G-league.

Play productive lineups for far bigger minutes unless they stop working. Only 1 lineup over 50 minutes total and only 5 over 1.5 minutes per game. The most used 5 are +10.6 per 48 minutes on average. The 94 dink lineups (under 1 minute per game) are performing at an average of -9.4 pts / 100 poss. Come on. It is so obvious that the dink game sucks here and for most coaches. How do these coaches fool themselves into continuing it? Seems to me it must be by not looking at or caring about the numbers enough and / or having a rigid, inaccurate model for how coaches should behave / best manage lineups. Micro-managing lineups minute to minute for match-ups may sound reasonable but if the results suck, don't continue that way. A lot of coaching gamesmanship is egotistical chaotic, irrational bull.

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It is not just that the dink lineups are almost 20 points worse per 100 possessions than the 5 most used, mostly good lineups. It is that they are getting almost twice as many minutes.

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Tonight: No Tolliver, no Trent. 2nd least amount of Bazemore. I agree that those things.

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Lineups with 4 of Lillard McCollum Hood Little and Whiteside are generally the best. With Anthony good. Not with Bazemore or Tolliver. With Simons in some cases. Hezonja should stay with mostly bench units or stay on bench.

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Music better make the late difference. Other stuff short of the mark.