I appreciate you listing all of the things you would have done differently but I disagree with almost all of them. Any combination of most of them would have resulted in a shorter than 7 game series.
1) Sort of agree on Maxi. When he's not hitting shots early he just doesn't seem to have it and doesn't provide enough value outside of that. Although I'm not sure how feasible giving Powell big minutes was, he has not been good since coming back from the injury. Maybe worth a shot.
2) Love Brunson, but the Clips ate his lunch this series. He had one of the worst NET ratings on the team.
3) See 1, Powell hasn't been that guy since before his injury
4) What a weird conclusion. We were making a point of not crashing the offensive glass and getting back on defense and LA wasn't scoring much in transition. So clearly we could have just starting crashing the offensive glass, not worried about getting back on defense and the Clippers would still not be a threat in transition?
5) You want KP to be that guy, but he's not that guy.
6) I don't see how we could ask Luka to have the usage rate on offense he had and also carry that kind of role on defense. Not to mention he wasn't even 100% the second half of the series.
7) Boban got plenty of time