Answers Part I

Why doesn't Dunleavy stick to consistent rotations and line-ups? He has consistently messed around with line-ups over the past several years. The worst example was his Corey Maggette off the bench experiment.

I think with this team, and all the new players, there will be a lot of mixing and matching. But overall, I would say that Coach Dunleavy is a big match-ups guy. Last week, when he put Jason Hart in before Mike Taylor, just a few games after he'd decided to make Taylor the back-up point guard, ahead of Hart, was a good example. Basically, coach said that he just preferred the matchup of Hart against Dallas' Jason Kidd over Taylor vs. Kidd. But it also had to do with the fact that Hart had played well against Dallas in the past.

Clearly his style of "trying to match up against other teams" and saying "we can do whatever the other team does; run, play big or go half court" doesn't work. The Clippers need an identity and should stick with it, instead of trying to just merely match up. We should make other teams try to match up with us, not play to what the other teams try to do.

I think Coach would agree with you. That said, he has said numerous times that he would like this team to be a ``running team'' and has made a commitment to that. But any Dunleavy coached team will emphasize defense first. So until they nail that down, everything else is secondary.

Also, in my opnion we need to give the rookies more minutes. Start Eric Gordon and bring Cat in off the bench would be a good start.

I think Eric will see his minutes increase steadily throughout the year. I don't know about starting though. Cat's veteran presence in that role is very valuable. I'd say it just depends on whether the team starts winning, and how quickly that happens. If it doesn't happen soon, Eric's role would increase sooner rather than later. But we're still a long ways from writing off the season. A long ways.