re: Hawkins on the bench?

Teams generally run 8-9 man rotations in the playoffs. Pels staff decided (and impact stats back them up) that Hawk is not ready for playoff basketball as a rookie. Pels oddly gave Dyson 3 minutes of run last night as our 9th, but teams typically do not do that and I think Dyson gets more of those Jose minutes in Game 2.

OKC ran a regular season rotation in Game 1 (11 players) which I think tells you more of what they thought about us than evidence for using a deeper playoff rotation. I wouldn't mind getting Hawk the development of playoff minutes, but the staff are trying to/think we can win the series, so they play Naji instead.