Weighted Average (By Minutes Played) of All 30 NBA Rosters

LOL @ Lakers. Nash hasn't even played much yet.

 

Well, the whole point of the McHale criticism is that the "veterans" aren't that much older/more experienced than the rookies. So it's not gonna drop the average very much if the rookies were played.

 

The argument that we need to play our rookies strikes me as odd. Our bench has been bad, but only because of our play at backcourt with Toney Douglas and Carlos Delfino being inconsistent. Marcus Morris, Cole Aldrich and Greg Smith look good so far. There's no reason to throw our NBA ready rookie out to replace those guys yet (T. Jones), and the rest of them are way too raw (Motiejunas, White) or would exacerbate our backcourt problems (shooting/defense with Machado).

People just need to chill.

 

I wasn't arguing about whether the rookies warranted to be played. I was just responding to your comment about how the average age "proved" that the criticism of McHale not playing the rookies was invalid. You implied that since we were already extremely young, there was no point criticizing the coach of not playing the young guys. I was just pointing out the flawed logic of your statement.

 

But I think CH's point is that the entire team is young guys. If the whole team consists of young guys who need to develop, then why are people mad that the coach plays the young guys who can actually play well rather than the young guys who are not yet ready to play?

 

Not everyone who advocates playing the rookies does so for development. Many people's criticism is that some rookies played well, even better than the veteran in preseason. Why are they not given a chance when the veterans aren't playing well, especially when the veterans aren't that much older and more experienced than the rookies.

CH's point is valid with the development criticism. It works the opposite with the performance criticism.

 

In general. It usually isn't wise to just toss player in the fire like that. I agree that the person who would be most prepared to play would be terrence jones. Also if Morey is trying to get a final evaluation of Morris, Patterson, Smith & Coleit would be wise to get them the majority of the playing time while the young guys watch games and improve in practice.

In terms of those asking to play Scott over TD that won't happen. Scott's defensive liability would just get the team destroyed. He struggles to get his own shot off so that makes him easy to defend also I doubt he will handle NBA athleticism off the bat like that even if it is just against back ups. I am thinking of the back up players he would go up against and it wouldn't be pretty. Guys like Bledsoe, Jason Terry, CJ Watson, Calderon would really give him trouble. Not to say that Douglas would play any better though but at least with Douglas you have a guy that has been around the block some.

 

if lillard was on this roster, i'm not entirely sure that mchale would have him playing ahead of douglas

 

Surprised to see Heat are older than the Spurs and Celtics.

 

Indeed. We all know what happened the last time McHale the coach had a high lottery rookie on his roster. Kevin Love had his ass glued to the bench for... wait a minute, he played 81 games in his rookie season at 25mpg.

 

wittman had already been playing love for 5 weeks before mchale became coach

 

...8 games into the season, after a 2-5 start w/ budinger struggling

 

This is actually one of the most knowledgeable threads and discussion in the last few days, I think what coach is doing is great, and the team is doing well.

Hopefully with more practise time we can see what coach comes up with if after 10 games our offense is still stalling then we can change it up, but for now there is not much to complain about except wait and watch.

(Although backup PG is an issue)

 

But that's the point, if someone from the rotation starts struggling really badly i'm sure he'll give Jones a look. Right now our problem is the backcourt and we don't really have any options there.

 

i can agree with this. but i think the opportunity for jones was there the past 2 games when greg smith was out with injury. morris took away some of those minutes (deservedly), but he is still a non-factor defensively, and in any case we could have used some fresh legs for a few min in the portland game.

it seems to me that with jones' strong showing in preseason, that he was actually projected to get some rotation minutes from opening night onwards, just like parsons did. but i suspect the harden trade might have changed that up, just from the standpoint that mchale himself didn't want to deal with any rookie mistakes since he already had the task of incorporating harden into the lineup.

 

I no care about weighted average. Why McHale no play Rookies