2026 NBA Finals Shocker: Can the Spurs Defy All Odds and Rewrite History?
In the aforementioned Clippers-Mavs series, coach Tyronn Lue also chose to go small, swapping 6-7 Nicolas Batum in for 7-foot Ivica Zubac in the starting lineup after Game 3. Batum wound up +50 in plus-minus over the final four games.
For the Los Angeles Lakers in a 1969 playoff series against the San Francisco Warriors, coach Butch van Breda Kolff’s key adjustment involved a swap at starting guard. In their first two games – both losses – Keith Erickson was the starter. But in the last four games, they started Johnny Egan, and three of those four wins were by double-digit margins.



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