AUBURN HILLS – It wasn’t just because Washington played two big men most of the time that Dwane Casey tweaked his rotation to include both Zaza Pachulia and Jon Leuer with the second unit in Wednesday’s win over the Wizards.
It also – primarily, in fact – had to do with more vigilantly monitoring Blake Griffin’s workload.
Griffin played 34 minutes in the 106-95 win, nearly 19 in the second half and a little more than 15 in the first. That’s a pattern Casey would like to continue.
“We wanted to look at that and it may be something we look at going forward to rest Blake more and to keep his minutes down,” Casey said.