Maybe this gets Jason Terry going again. JJ Barea is starting against Orlando, with Terry moving back into his familiar sixth-man role. Barea performed admirably as an emergency starter earlier this season, including a career-high 25 points against Sacramento on Nov. 3.
Johnson talked about tweaking the rotation before the game and the need for those at the end of the bench to step up their games.
“We’ve been trying to tweak, but tweaks work when guys play well,” Johnson said. “If you tweak it and put a guy in there and his job is to rebound or to make shots or run the team, whatever his job is, it all looks better when the guys play well.
“You’ve just got to make sure we put them in the right position and make sure we give them a lot of confidence, and we have a lot of confidence in this group. We have some guys that hadn’t been playing, but we’re hoping they have more a chance to play. Now is their time to play, so we need them to come through for us.”
Monday, February 4, 2008
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Yes, I really hope Johnson could give those bench players more confidence and more minutes to be on the floor. They might be slow at first, but that's exactly the time they need to be supported and encouraged. That's exactly a champion team should be if bench players could step out and play well every time.
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