You can never have too much depth! Or so they say, until fan-favorite Yuta Watanabe gets nine minutes of playing time spread across two games, and Cam Thomas, the man of 134 points over a recent, three-game stretch, is relegated to eighth-man duty. All of a sudden, the Brooklyn Nets, a team whose roster felt dangerously thin for much of its bygone superstar era, is overflowing with rotation-quality players. Specifically, wings. Maybe they should have traded a couple of them for future draft picks before this season's trade-deadline, but that’s another topic for another time.
For now, I’m here to focus on the first, most apparent speed bump of this not-quite-rebuilding era: the minutes crunch.