Kenneth Faried

He was getting lucky with getting minutes with a team like Denver. Think of him like Chris, NOlan, and Elliot, he’s a spark plug, but after five or so minutes he’s a liability.

Denver has five bigs that they want to play ahead of Faried—Nene at either PF or C, Koufas and Mozgov at C, and Al Harrington and Chris Anderson at PF. That’s already more than is ideal to split playing time—you generally want a three or four man rotation.

Faried has only had one game with a substantial amount of playing time, and he looked fantastic in that game. But he’s still behind all these other guys—Koufas and Mozgov for developmental reasons and Nene, Harrington and Anderson since they’re very productive.

Denver is kind of thin at small forward, but Faried can’t play a wing, he’s an inside the paint big.

They have depth in every spot—in fact, probably a little too much depth for long-term roster development.