03-30-2021, 01:45 PM
(03-30-2021, 01:24 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Hey guys, this is my first post here so I first just want to say how glad I am to find out this place existed. I used to post every once and a while on the db.com boards under a different name, cdansby, but I kind of thought this all just died when Fisher moved sites without understanding that his entire audience were these boards. Mavs Twitter and Reddit drives me crazy with how surface level and knee jerk some of the takes are, so seeing all these usernames again is quite the sight for sore eyes.
I got a million thoughts I'd like to get off my chest but I'll just stick with what's being discussed.
I get confused as to fans' frustration of the rookie's minutes this year as we are clearly in a little more of a win now mode compared to recent years and we also seem to be, you know, winning now when the roster is full strength and squeezing Green and the rest of the bunch out of the rotation. I think we just caught a lot of bad luck this year with the G League not being what it normally is because I feel that all 4 kids would be getting most of their development there this year, so in that sense the player development has been disappointing but obviously not from any fault of the FO. I also think it's weird to claim this team doesn't develop rookies when two of our starters were developed in house.
For the rookies themselves I think we have great upside in all 4 of them. Personally, I think Bey may end up carving himself out a role sooner than the rest out of need (I'm also biased because I live in the Boulder area and saw a lot of him in college and was ecstatic when we landed him in the trade) but think that all showed promise in the bubble. And although I was very high on the fit of Aaron Gordon as the 4 on this team, I'm glad Green wasn't moved because of the uncertainty around Hardaway's and Richardson's futures here at the moment. At the very least we have someone we can thrust into those minutes and hope that he can step up if needed next season. We also didn't really have the ammo to match Denver's offer anyway but that's a different point for a different thread.
I also think us sending out our second rounder shows that we like all 4 of those guys because we're basically saying we don't have roster space for that second rounder anyway because they plan on all 4 being guaranteed next year.
Anyways, these are random thoughts and not directly tied to other posts in this thread but just kind of excited that I'm here moving forward instead of listening to a bunch of reddit posters who have been Mavs fans for 2 and a half seasons screaming to fire Rick.
I, weirdly enough, have Clipper fans in my life and they absolutely went on and on and on about how Doc Rivers hated playing young players with the Clippers. I thought maybe they were going overboard, because Tyrese Maxey was getting pretty decent chunk of playing time to start the year. But now I noticed that his playing time has been really cut back and it will probably be even further cut back once George Hill is ready to go.