Mitchell Robinson
The offensive glassFifteen rebounds in the Cup final, ten of them offensive. He kept giving December's biggest game back to the offense.
Chapter 09
Depth Is Infrastructure
Robinson, Shamet, McBride, Alvarado: the bench that kept the season standing.
The second unit
Depth is infrastructure
The stars got the headlines. But the season survived January, and Cleveland, because the bench kept winning possessions the starters never saw.
Landry Shamet
The shooterPart of the closing group that erased 22 points in Cleveland in the conference finals.
Miles McBride
The point-of-attack defenderAn ankle, then sports-hernia surgery. The bench got tested mostly because he wasn't there. Then he came back and scored 25 in a playoff game.
Jose Alvarado
The deadline addThe Brooklyn-born guard arrived at the deadline to make the backcourt deeper and every possession less comfortable.
