IT'S HARDY TIME: Jaden Hardy looking like a decent prospect

[Scott41theMavs]

Yes, but as soon as you start losing games because the young players made mistakes, then the even angrier mob is calling for the coaches' head on a platter.

This has been an argument around here for years. It's always amazed me looking around the league at how every other team, including playoff teams, seemed to be able to give their young players minutes and develop them without hurting their win-loss significantly. If you have young players who have a reasonable number of professional and competent vets around them, and give them trust in that context, they develop without hurting the win-loss. We're seeing this at work with Green and Hardy. I deplore Kidd as an X's and O's and rotations coach, but he absolutely destroys Carlisle as a developer of young players. At least with the Mavs. Carlisle seems to be doing better with this in Indiana.