Doc Rivers is learning the same lesson for the second time, except now he's got fewer excuses to ignore it. Jericho Sims finally got 8 minutes in Milwaukee's 118-112 loss to Cleveland, and it only took three games for Rivers to remember what should've been obvious from last season.
Like clockwork, we're right back to wishing Rivers would play Sims as if last season's lessons learned never happened. Both the eye test and the results from last year's sparse experiments of the Giannis-Sims frontcourt pairing were screaming at everyone. Giannis and Sims together simply played elite defensive basketball that Rivers stubbornly refused to use until the playoffs were already slipping away.