Coach and player quotes on roles, minutes, health and gameplans. Every quote checked against the transcript or post.
LeBron is on a 16 to 18 minute limit for now and how he gets there is flexible.
โIt was going to be first half minutes, right? ... So a nine minute stint is seven, you know, what would be a normal one or six and a half or something. ... And to get to that number, 16, 18 minutes, it doesn't really matter how you do it right now.โ
Philadelphia's starters are all expected to play about a half tonight.
โNick Nurse said he anticipates the starters all playing. Playing about a half tonight.โ
Coaches and Lillard are urging Morant to stay aggressive and look for his own scoring in Portland.
โtalking with the coaches last night today and then with Dame yesterday, they were telling me to stay aggressive. Obviously when I'm playing like me, it opens up a lot more on the floor for everybody else.โ
Starters' playing time on the back-to-back is undecided.
โIt's still to be TBD... if you play some of them, sit some of them at the opposite times, just more minutes for more guys, and it gives us a chance to look at different combinations.โ
Cade Cunningham could play more off the ball in some games while keeping the same touches.
โI think there's times in games, depending on teams, how they're defending us and how they're defending him, that we could do more with him off the ball and allow him, you know, to hide a little bit more and then come to the action. And still get the same amount of touches and usage for them. And I think it's important that we diversify that for them.โ
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