The Thunder head coach held heaps of faith in his reserve unit throughout the regular season, and that's now seeping into the playoffs.
Two games into Round 1, and Mark Daigneault is sticking to his guns, and betting on his depth. What's helped him and the Oklahoma City Thunder see so much success throughout this inspiring season-long run stems from the impactful reserves who anchor the starting five, and Daigneault has hinged on that.
It's certainly worked to his advantage thus far. On Sunday in an anxiously tight game behind the Paycom Center crowd, rookie and reserve Cason Wallace came up immensely on the defensive end of the floor throughout the contest, and in the most important play of the game. Locking down CJ McCollum on the final play of the night sealed a Game 1 victory for Oklahoma City, and Daigneault leaving his freshman defensive stalwart out on the floor was a move that only seemed to be right to make.
Following his 11-man rotation in Game 1, Daigneault had this to say,"There’s advantages to having depth… There’s probably like a subtle pressure to cut it down arbitrarily but they all played well last night. Into Game 2, there was only one player to be brushed off in terms of the amount of play time given in the first bout, and that was Kenrich Williams. He'd eventually get time in clean up duty as the Thunder led by over 25, but Daigneualt still stuck to his philosophy and deployed 10 men out within the thick of the contest, and it proved to be fruitful.
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