11-14-2024, 11:09 PM
(11-14-2024, 11:06 PM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: This game should put an end to all the “start Lively” chatter. He’s not ready. It’s more important to keep him out of foul trouble playing against second stringers until crunch time.
I disagree. Foul trouble was definitely an issue for him in this one, but he hasn’t actually been particularly foul prone during his career, so far, and if he doesn’t learn how to start, then he isn’t the player everyone here “knows” him to be.
Besides, it is crystal clear that Gafford isn’t good enough to be on some sort of equal pedestal with him. This team should be about the business of developing the 30 to 35 minutes per night version of lively. There might be growing pains, sure, but that’s the goal.