I think this biggest impact we would see over time is a more efficient Crawford with more playing time with woods. With woods and Arian on the wings, Crawford would have a lot more room to operate. Right now you can leave wilbekin to help and he isn't really going to hurt you. If you leave woods he is going to cause damage. I would rather tighten up our rotation and play our top 5 30+ minutes every night than worry about balancing our second unit. That may simply be a philosophical difference between manning and I but I have never been a large rotation type coach. Give 5 starters and 2-3 subs and the rest have to try and break into the lineup.
Fwiw manning has severely tightened his rotation this year from his first 2 and that is personally encouraging to me.
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That's basically the rotation I would use. Start Crawford, Woods, Arians, Dinos, Collins.
Only play Wilbekin with Crawford and Woods or Arians.
Only sub Childress for Crawford
In other words, don't play Childress and Wilbekin together. Use these rotations at the 1-3.
--Crawford, Woods, Arians (starters)
--Crawford, Wilbekin, Woods
--Crawford, Wilbekin, Arians
--Childress, Woods, Arians
I think Crawford needs to be the primary ballhandler when he's in the game and I don't trust Childress off the ball (not that I trust him with the ball either).
In the post:
Dinos/Collins as much as possible
Dinos/Moore when Collins is out
Collins/Moore in spots around TV timeouts
Use timeouts to give the bigs a break. Use McClinton sparingly at the 4 to rest Dinos. Avoid playing Arians at PF.