(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?
There are multiple factors in play.
1 On a scrub team like DET or OKC or HOU, for example, raw players get more minutes, because why not. That's just how it works.
2 But there are also the issues of ability and real potential. That matters too.
3 RC will develop players who show potential and give them minutes. He does it all the time, and the list is ongoing. Wake up.
4 But you earn your minutes by what you do with what you are given. If you spare it up and aren't ready, you will go to the back of the line for minutes.
5 The 2020-21 issues you mention could be a factor also.
6 Your idea that RC will only play Luka is, clearly, pure and utter nonsense. You can observe much better than that-- that take is such a fail.
7 How youngsters are developed is only in RC's domain when it comes to practices and playing time. But he gets what he gets to work with and use from the development that is done by others in the organization, or the crappiness thereof. That's part of the equation that always gets ignored.
Obviously S Bey and Bane are playing more because they landed on teams with more minutes to spare, and they also might be better raw material to work with than what the Mavs drafted, but they aren't really a factor in what happens in Dallas.