04-28-2021, 01:13 PM
(04-28-2021, 12:15 PM)dynamicalVoid Wrote: Is this Rick trying to force Management to trade draft picks for experienced players? He doesnt want to spend time baby-sitting/developing? Or...Rick doesnt like Managements draft selection(Rick wanted someone else) so he freezes them out?
Unless you are Luka good...you arent getting any burn under RC for 2 or 3 years?
I get it...our rooks arent ready yet? But Sadiq Bey and Desmond Bane.
What I guess Im asking is could there be something else going on other than just..."the rooks arent ready"?
Or does the rooks not playing seem magnified this season due to the abbreviated season not allowing much time for teams to practice which means less time for rooks to develop?
Four rookies are a lot for a win-now team to be carrying. There was some buzz around the time that, since the Mavericks had little in the way of picks, they wanted to have a few young prospects on hand to include in trades, if necessary. I don't know if that was ever verified, but it's possible that some of these guys were never primarily intended as building blocks on the court for the organization.
Even to the extent that is not the case, the official party line (which is probably true) is that with the extremely compressed schedule and lack of practice time, they haven't been able to follow the normal processes for bringing them along. And with the COVID setback and seeding being as tight as it is, there hasn't been much opportunity for in-game developmental minutes.