Things are settling down a bit and at this point we may not see another move until Greg Buckner’s contract is eligible to be traded (September 9). To my chagrin it does look like we will be losing Ryan Hollins (at least if Mark Cuban’s tweet is any indication: “congrats to ryan hollins. wish him the best w twolves #fb“). Don’t get me wrong – I never thought he was the next Amare – but his athleticism and hustle just really seemed to fit here, and I envisioned him potentially emerging as a running partner to JKidd/Marion fast breaks. But the roster is full as it is, so let’s check out who we do have, from biggest to smallest in terms of positional capability:
Dampier
Jawai
Gooden
Nowitzki
Humphries
Nivins
TThomas
Marion
Singleton
Howard
Ross
Buckner
Carroll
Jet
Beaubois
Barea
Kidd
That’s 17 right there. Sure, Buckner + other(s) will probably be moved (which could shake this team up in a big way once again), but this unfortunately already leaves out FA Gerald Green as well as a couple of others. Nevertheless, only 15 can be on the roster and 12 are allowed to be active on gameday anyway.
At the moment, I would imagine the minutes would shake out to (on average):
C: Gooden (24); Damp (17); Dirk (7)
PF: Dirk (29); Marion (10); Gooden (5); TThomas (4)
SF: Marion (26); J-Ho (12); Ross (6); TThomas (4)
SG: J-Ho (22); JET (26)
PG: Kidd (34): Barea (11); JET (3)
IR: Carroll/Buckner
D-League: Jawai/Nivins
Notes:
-Beaubois, Humphries, and Singleton: Two of the three would be active and one would be IR. Being active would not guarantee minutes though.
-Barea (offensively at least) and Ross (defensively at least) would technically be at the 2-guard some of the time despite not being allotted for any minutes there in the depth chart above. This is due to the defensive versatility that is achieved by having people like Kidd at the 1 and Marion/J-Ho at the 3.
