Tom has always done better with less than more. Even his NCAA championship team. While this team obviously isn’t Bridges/Jackson loaded, expectations were high—and the prospects haven’t been able to match what guys like Goins and McQuade brought consistentlt game-after-game.
Not having Livers sucked and having him back made a ton of difference…
BUT I think in the future we may be happy that Johns got all that time and a long leash you work his stuff out, because he looks like a genuine asset now - especially off the bench.
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Some lineup observations pertinent to next season:
Livers got a couple shifts at the 3. Including one with Johns at 4 at Franz at 2. If Livers is back next yearj, he’s gonna have to play a lot at the 3 to make the rotations work.
JuWaN hOwArD iS iN oVeR hIs HeAd
-clueless trolls
Amazing what happens when the outside shots fall and your best player returns. Even then Franz didn’t have that great of a game either. Imagine the team with a Franz who has a confident stroke.
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I think DDJ is the best twitter follow on the team lol
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The dye in colored socks give him rashes? Is that junk science or legit? Lol
Did a quick little search and no one has ever said that phrase about Juwan on this forum (since his introductory press conference). Only about Bajema and Nunez. 
He’s had his moments good and bad imo. So has the team. Lots of reasons the team has struggled at times this year. Not just one reason or person. Lots of contributing factors. Let’s hope it’s all been a learning experience and everyone is turning the corner and everything comes together late here when it really matters.
There has been a variety of factors sure. But the majority of them I would think at least correlate to losing Livers for as long as we did. Juwan has had some rookie mistakes which is to be expected but he’s certainly not anything but good.
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The most appropriate criticism of Howard in my opinion is that he’s allowed his rotations to be longer than needed some - with a full compliment of players I don’t see a reason to use more than the 8 we had today, and he probably should have thought about 7 when Livers was down.
Yeah and I think he’d admit that. The last couple weeks he’s made it smaller. Unfortunately it may have possibly cost us a win.
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Did anyone else notice Juwan sub Johns in for Teske with under 90 seconds, then have Johns, without a switch forcing it, pick up Winston outside the arc - who then forced a tough missed runner?
Wow
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I could also see Livers at the 2 next year with Franz at the 3 and Johns at the 4 and Todd at the 5.
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I guess it’s just semantics positionally with Franz/Johns/Livers in that scenario. Truly positionless. Not sure you could call any of them a 2
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Today was his best minutes distribution / lineup decisions all year.
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Agreed, although obviously winning make it look better!
I’d be really worried about ball-handling and perimeter D with that lineup
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Ball handling I can see but I think that lineup would do just fine defending the perimeter.
Livers has never been particularly successful defending guards.