We could play something like: Rodriguez/Udrih, Evans/Garcia, Martin/Garcia, Nocioni/Brockman, and Hawes/JT and have interesting offensive possibilities as a small ball team. That would at once minimize the risk of a combo guard who might not be able to make the change, and deal with our lack of a backup C. If we weren't going to try something like that, the lack of a backup C would leave me wondering what the heck the FO was thinking. Playing Evans and Martin at once (as 1 and 2) also leaves me wondering who is going to be making assists, yet there is no way that benching either one of them would be popular, so something like the above gets the coach and FO out of that dilemma.
Whether we could play small successfully against most opponents is something I feel doubtful about, but it does seem worth a try. It's not like we had anything to lose.
