Jericho Sims didn’t play a minute for five consecutive games until Robinson was injured Wednesday in the first quarter of a home loss to the Wizards.
didn’t go well on defense Friday night at Atlanta, but it offered a glimpse at their thinking regarding the center position in his absence.
Barring a frontcourt addition ahead of the Feb. 9 trade deadline, Thibodeau said the two centers are “probably going to play the same” minutes with Robinson sidelined for the next several weeks, with the possibility of also using Julius Randle at center occasionally in a smaller lineup. Sims’ profile at both ends of the floor is more similar to Robinson’s than that of Hartenstein, who was signed to a two-year contract worth $16 million as a free agent last summer. Hartenstein was billed as a passing big man capable of hitting shots from 3-point range after connecting on 62.6 percent of his field-goal attempts and 46.7 percent from long distance last season with the Clippers.
“It’s all stuff I normally make, so I think there was some maybe mental part where I was maybe a little frustrated, but then I just gotta control what I can control and it’ll come back.”
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