(03-30-2021, 02:31 PM)JamesConway Wrote: Total minutes played this season:
James Johnson 504
Josh Green 253
Tyler Bey 32
I fully agree that player development does not exclusively happen in-game (has anybody argued that?) but the difference in numbers is just too glaring for me to give the Mavs some slack here.
No, I think they aren’t doing a good job developing those guys.
Especially Bey‘s case is hard to understand. He didn’t even play 10% of Johnson‘s minutes despite the latter performing rather poorly throughout the entire season and both being forward-types.
Also Green‘s minutes have come „by accident“ for the most part during the covid-period. Without he probably also sees less than 100 minutes up until game 40+
The argument that development can't take place much outside of games has been made in the past.
Am I wrong? I thought Green played a good bit at the beginning of the season, pre-team-covid.
I'm not trying to change your opinion. Yours is as good as mine. Opinions are pretty much what I have. But, "x minutes is not enough minutes for our rookies" seems really subjective. In my imagination, the coaches have a methodology for how to develop a player, and specific thoughts about how game time fits in to that. What's your (or others here, please weigh in) methodology for deciding how many minutes a rookie "should" play.
I'm not saying it's wrong to have an opinion based on feel. But the "rookies aren't playing enough" is thrown out enough that it would be helpful if we could hash out what we're using to come up with that claim.
*edit*
Let me push back on myself, before you have to. I don't think I have my "methodology" defined either. :-) So that's were someone could say that our opinions are kinda based on whether or not we trust the coaching staff.
I guess I'll just say, if we really wanted to sort out this question, it'd be good to have an idea of what should be done and why.