Should Donatas Motiejunas get Omri Casspi's minutes?

I doubt we get 4th unless Clippers take a nose dive and it will take Mchale a year to figure out how to use Dwight. Since he is not much worse than Garcia or Casspi, then why not. But I do understand what your saying.

 

An NBA franchise keeps moving year after year, just because you're contending now doesn't mean you sit tight and rest on your laurels, Boston tried that route with the big 3 and look where that got them, going from KG, Allen and Pierce to K-hump,Rondo (who they are tying to dump btw) and Avery Bradley. OTH, the Spurs never stop rebuilding, never stop looking for and developing players. Now when TD and Manu retires, you still have Splitter as the frontcourt guy and Bellineli as the bench sparkplug.

Why judge DMo on his performance? He's getting 10 mins a night on a good day! He's a 7 footer who is young, healthy, has bball IQ, post skils and isn't afraid of contact. He even has a working jumper that extends to the 3 pt line. That's a freaking commodity, you don't trade that just for the lolz, you either get a prime asset for it or you develop him so you have a good player once his rookie contract expires. Who cares about a couple of losses now if it'll pay dividends down the road? You don't remember the losses the Spurs had because they had a rookie TP playing point instead of Jason Kidd.

 

^This

 

I don't think it is about trust above everything else. It works as follows: Once the coaching staff is comfy with a rotation, they tend to stick to it until it falls apart or won't work.
It was like last year with Terrence. He was more inconsistent but did not pout.
They looked to trade him until the last games when he indeed performed.

Question is if Motiejunas is indeed in their long term plans or not. I guess they want to look into the whole Asik dilemma first and then sort out the other players.
Guys like Lin have no safety net either.

 

What? Boston was a championship contender for several year, and if not for KG's injuries and DWade dislocating Rondo's shoulder they might have won 3-4 rings. An now they couldn't have dreamed of being in a better position to rebuild. They will have a high pick plus a mid-first rounder (Brooklyn/Atlanta) in a once-in-a-decade draft, plus they have THREE consecutive UNPROTECTED first rounders from Brooklyn (2016, 2017 right to swap, and 2018) who is going to be TERRIBLE in the next 5 years, and possibly yield multiple top-5 picks. I would say Boston's approach got them pretty damn far.

Also, none of the rumors about Celtics trying to trade Rondo were ever substantiated.

 

I have been saying it all along. Dmo needs more minutes at back up PF. Lessen parsons minutes, he's playing too much. Move Casspi to backup SF. And stop playing Garcia. He's only good if he's hitting his 3's.

 

It is not about who's better, Casspi will be a star even if we don't think so. He means to jew people the same way Lin for Asian.

 

Casspi has been terrific with both Howard (+16.3) and Asik (+11.4) on the floor. He's also played better with Jones (+4.1) than D-Mo has (-18.9). All of D-Mo's lineup-numbers are small sample size, but he's really been terrible with every big (-14.0 with Howard in 14 minutes, -42.7 w/ Greg Smith in 9 min) except Asik (+30.1 in 11 min).

 

You're way off. Omri Casspi wants to be a basketball player. He doesn't want to run a tech startup, have a military consulting career or do the nasty jobs that only the jews outside the US do. In doing that he's over came a speech impediment, learned english for a hebrew speaker is very hard. Hebrew is a language with lots of content in a few words and english is little content with lots of words. Casspi is a jock not a literary major. He is an interesting person so people like him.

 

those sample sizes are just to small to mean anything.

 

Fine, but Casspi's sample sizes aren't small and Casspi's numbers are terrific. D-Mo hasn't shown enough that would warrant taking Casspi's spot and though one shouldn't put much, if any, value into D-Mo's numbers, they sure don't help his case.

 

As I stated in the other D-Mo thread, Motiejunas has worked well alongside a garbage man while playing in Europe for Benetton and Prokom. So Asik is the perfect fit next to Donatas, a center that gobbles up rebounds, plays great defense and doesn't demand the ball on offense.

 

im not saying he should, Casspi have been playing great.

 

Casspi has been playing very well off the bench, especially with his outside shot. He seems to make threes even when the rest of the team is having trouble. He also knows how to cut, something Garcia never does.

D-Mo is a European player who focuses on pick and roll, where Dwight sets up in the post and waits for the ball (and he's very good at that). I think they should experiment with Lin and Motiejunas in the 2nd unit.

Still, D-Mo is a young guy who just doesn't compare to Howard and TJ.

 

not bios much Noone ????

can understand and debate with DoF poster.
you -> keep hating it really 'help' your soul

 

This is delusional.

There's an opening for a backup center. If Donatas Motiejunas was willing to be the euro that battles around the basket he would be playing and have a nba career. Kevin McHale has said he's looking for someone that wins his battles, boxes out the defender, gets the possessions, and gets the rebound. Donatas Motiejunas shown his heart for one game in Memphis the rest of the season he's been soft.

 

Dmo fukin sucks. PERIOD

 

Gotta agree he kinda sucked today, but it's common considering he's not getting court time. D-League could help him with that, to get back his confidence. Aniway, he grabbed 5 rebs in 7 minutes and scored 4 points.