period. It appears to me that what you just said was you KNOW that within the current player base there are ways of doing better by just cutting the pie differently. And that you feel it is as obvious there are better options as it is the current ones are not performing at a level you think they should.

But is it? You give no consideration that it isn't stubbornness but rather the coaches knowledge of his players that is driving the decisions.

One could take the total minutes of SP vs a highlight video of the same length for SM and SM would look better. Same for NA vs DM and that appears to be a valid as the way you are making your comparisons. It is just not a viable comparison with such a difference in both the number of observations and different situations.

As for Aluma, again you post as if you just know the fix is to rest Aluma. But is it? Remember BC? A no name guy gets into a zone for the rest of the game when someone other than Aluma is playing. Certainly not enough observations to say that would happen all or even most of the time but still at least with SP and DM was have some observations that they can play. We don't even have that for any other #5 player.

As for the "eye" test, when you have already accepted there are better ways, then you eyes tell you what you want to see.