Coachspeak

PHIMinutes & Usage𝕏 Beat9h

Philadelphia's starters are all expected to play about a half tonight.

“Nick Nurse said he anticipates the starters all playing. Playing about a half tonight.”

DETCade CunninghamMinutes & Usage𝕏 Beat12h

Cade Cunningham could play more off the ball in some games while keeping the same touches.

“I 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.”

INDQuenton Jackson · Ben Sheppard · Jalen Slawson · Jarace Walker · Jay HuffMinutes & Usage𝕏 Beat1d

Pacers starters are done after the first half at about 17 minutes in the preseason opener.

“The first half appears to be it for the Pacers' starters in tune-up Game No. 1. ~17mins is about right.”

PHXMinutes & Usage𝕏 Beat1d

Phoenix is balancing soft tissue risk against rhythm and has no idea how long the opponent's starters play.

“Tonight, I expect it to be up and down. That's obviously on my mind, the soft tissue stuff that goes around. But you also want to get a little bit of rhythm... you're balancing how many collisions you want to have out there, how many minutes you want to play in a game that we don't know if they're going to play their first or second unit in the second half.”

PHXMinutes & Usage𝕏 Beat1d

Ott plans to have Suns starters play into the third quarter tonight.

“You try to go into it with a plan, try to at least acknowledge to those guys that, hey, we're going to ask you to play into the third quarter, and then we'll see what the rest of the preseason. You have a plan, but this thing could be changed in an instant.”