In the first five games of the season, the young and inexperienced rotation - Sandro Mamukelashvili is the oldest at 26 with the most years played [4] - looked to already be an insolvable quandary. It was 16th in net rating, 21st in points scored, and as resistant as rotten fruit on the glass (25th in rebounding percentage). The lot of them looked lost, small, and, ineffectual. Only Jamison Battle had a positive plus/minus in their losses, and he played limited minutes in just two games.