I believe Lamarcus played the first 14 minutes of the first half and the first 15 minutes of the second half. Basically Nate didn't trust Howard or even Cunningham much which is understandable because Howard cannot get a rebound anymore. I really hope that playing Aldridge for such long stretches is not going to continue because I think it affects his overall energy towards the end of the game. And it doesn't seem like we can play Oden at the 4 because of his foul trouble.

The zone defense was really effective but it was quite ineffective in getting a rebound. For the most part, the frontcourt is often going to be in a bad position to get rebounds so the backcourt has to really help with rebounding and sandwich the offensive rebounders into very little space to work.

Nate is going to have to eventually figure out which two of three (Miller, Blake, Rudy) are going to play in the backcourt. They each come with serious pros and cons..