In the playoffs, rotations tend to decrease. Pat Riley famously summed up his philosophy in the postseason, explaining that he “eight players he used, seven who were in his rotation, six who actually played and five who he trusted. » A mantra which is not at all that of Mark Daigneault.
Faithful to his principles of the regular season, the coach used 11 players during Game 1 against the Pelicans, throwing in 9 different players in the first quarter!
“I have great confidence in our team, they have great confidence in each other”explained the Coaches Union Coach of the Year. “There's probably a subtle pressure to arbitrarily reduce the number of players used, but they all played well the other night. »
“We are ready to do things a little differently”
For the technician, it is the strength of this team to have a dense group and interchangeable profiles.
“I don't think there are such differences in our squad to make it obvious which seven or eight players to play. This is the first game of the series. We played like that all year. »
For Lu Dort, Aaron Wiggins and company, it's not even a topic. Of course, the team leaders will have their playing time, but so will the role players, depending on the duels and the feelings of their coach.
“I understand there are standards, but we want to be the best team possible”concludes Mark Daigneault, who also assumes playing “small”, even if it means systematically losing the rebound battle. “We're willing to do things a little differently, and if there's a better path, we'll take it. »
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | 75 | 34.0 | 53.5 | 35.3 | 87.4 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 30.1 |
| Jalen Williams | 71 | 31.3 | 54.0 | 42.7 | 81.4 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 19.1 |
| Chet Holmgren | 82 | 29.4 | 53.0 | 37.0 | 79.3 | 1.6 | 6.3 | 7.9 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 16.5 |
| Josh Giddey | 80 | 25.1 | 47.5 | 33.7 | 80.6 | 1.4 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 12.3 |
| Luguentz Dort | 79 | 28.4 | 43.8 | 39.4 | 82.6 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 10.9 |
| Isaiah Joe | 78 | 18.5 | 45.8 | 41.6 | 86.5 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 8.2 |
| Aaron Wiggins | 78 | 15.7 | 56.2 | 49.2 | 78.9 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 6.9 |
| Cason Wallace | 82 | 20.6 | 49.1 | 41.9 | 78.4 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 6.8 |
| Gordon Hayward | 26 | 17.2 | 45.3 | 51.7 | 69.2 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 5.3 |
| Kenrich Williams | 69 | 14.9 | 46.8 | 39.7 | 50.0 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 4.7 |
| Ousmane Dieng | 33 | 11.1 | 42.2 | 30.0 | 87.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 4.0 |
| Jaylin Williams | 69 | 13.0 | 41.7 | 36.8 | 80.5 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 4.0 |
| Tre Mann | 13 | 9.2 | 50.0 | 42.1 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 3.8 |
| Lindy Waters III | 38 | 7.4 | 47.1 | 43.5 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 3.6 |
| Vasilije Micic | 30 | 12.0 | 40.7 | 24.4 | 73.7 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 3.3 |
| Davis Bertans | 15 | 6.1 | 38.5 | 41.7 | 93.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 2.9 |
| Olivier Sarr | 15 | 6.5 | 57.9 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 2.3 |
| Bismack Biyombo | 10 | 7.3 | 58.3 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.8 |
| Adam Flagler | 2 | 7.0 | 14.3 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Keyontae Johnson | 9 | 7.4 | 31.3 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.2 |
| Aleksej Pokusevski | 10 | 6.0 | 25.0 | 18.2 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.2 |
| Mike Muscala | 16 | 5.7 | 36.4 | 9.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
