The latest example? Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni swearing that the Rockets wouldn’t use their small-ball lineups in this series, only to use them pretty extensively by Game 4.
“No, we’ll have a center,” D’Antoni told Rockets reporter Alykhan Bijani before Game 1, when he asked if the Rockets would play small-ball in the series. Last year we had [Luc] Mbah A Moute who can give you that. We had Trevor [Ariza] who is longer. Now we have Austin [Rivers] & [Iman] Shumpert, so we’re little bit smaller. It’ll be a stretch to think we’re going with 5 smalls.