Heading up the United States squad, Cavaliers assistant coach, Larry Drew, along with fellow Cleveland coaches, James Posey, Bret Brielmaier and Vitaly Potapenko led the U.S. to a wild 157-154 victory over the World team in the 2016 Rising Stars Challenge on All-Star Friday night at Air Canada Centre.
(Larry, what is the challenge with such a high-paced game to keep bodies fresh and get guys shots?):
"Well, you know, going into the game, we knew right away the type of substitution pattern we wanted to have, didn't want to leave guys out there too long. But, yeah, leave them out there long enough to where they can get some type of a rhythm, some type of a lather. Honestly, the biggest challenge was to get them guys to play some defense. But I thought our guys responded well to the substitution pattern. I told them before the game kind of what I had in mind as far as substituting, playing them like seven, eight minutes at a time. Then the last four minutes of each half we'll see how the match-ups are and see who is rolling and I'll kind of like coach it from there."