The NBA playoffs have become regular season! Expand the rotation to the main theme, the Timberwolves should have been enlightened long ago

In this year's CBA Finals, Beijing, which expanded its rotation, lost to Guangsha, which had a tight rotation with a total score of 2-4, but in the NBA, it seems to be the opposite. The two teams leading in the division finals are both the Pacers and the Thunder who are more rotating. In the Western Conference, after losing two games in a row away, the Timberwolves returned to the home G3, which is extremely important for them, because no team in NBA history has been able to complete a comeback while falling behind 0-3.

Compared to being beaten by the Thunder in the first two games, the Timberwolves of G3 showed extremely strong offensive power, defeating the Thunder by 42 points 143-101. The reason why they were able to defend the home court in this game is also closely related to Finch's adjustment of rotation. Unlike the 7 or 8 people in the first two games, he took the initiative to activate role players such as Shannon, Garza, and Leonard Miller in this game. Among them, Shannon's sudden emergence, efficiently scored 15 points in only 13 minutes of playing time, which really caught the Thunder off guard.

The Timberwolves sent a total of 14 players on the court, of which 9 of them played more than double digits. Considering that the four teams entering the division finals this time have no major competition experience, tightening the rotation will limit their performance. If they use more flexible people like the regular season, it will have an unexpected effect. If the Timberwolves want to complete a comeback in this round of series, Finch should indeed continue to expand the rotation in the next game, rather than letting the starting five tigers and Reed, Walker, and Divinchenzo play like the first two games. After all, the Thunder on the opposite side is also a young team with inexperienced. Dagnott has been expanding the rotation to about 10 players in this playoffs. If the Timberwolves want to tighten the rotation, once the main players' physical fitness is red, they are indeed on the passive side.

Judging from the big victory in G3, players like the Timberwolves, Shannon, Garza, and Miller can all be used. Of course, if Finch wants to expand the rotation, he must also reduce the substitutes who have previously divided the playing time. This will test the "microwave" attributes of these substitutes even more, and they must be able to help if they come up, just like Shannon. The Thunder may not be fully prepared for the outbreak of substitute players such as the Timberwolves, but in G4, Daignot will definitely take strict measures against the Green Leaf players such as the Thunder. If Finch can continue to expand the rotation and win the G4, so that both sides can return to the same starting line, then the Thunder and the Timberwolves are likely to fight to become tiebreakers.

As mentioned earlier, the four teams entering the division finals had no experience in major competitions before, and they were all relatively young teams, so there was no situation where they had to rely on veterans or core performance. For them, the playoffs were similar to the regular season. So whoever wants to win the division finals and meet in the finals has to compete with whose rotation is deeper, and whose substitute players can enter the game more quickly.