SOUL wrote:This forum is unserious about basketball discussion if we're going to debate that Jett and AB not getting minutes are the reasons why this team isn't reaching their potential or better. The team would actively get worse playing two rookies the minutes people want for them. I would put my life savings on it.
That doesn't mean they aren't the better options moving forward and replacing Ingles/Fultz/Harris or whoever - you are simply spitting in the face of advanced statistics and common sense.
I've got some snake oil to sell some people if you think it's just a coincidence that when the Jazz start playing Hendricks, Sensabaugh and Keyonte all together more minutes, with and without other vets in the lineup, that they go on a 10 game losing streak.
It doesn't mean they can't put up big stats and shouldn't be the future, it's that actively playing all 1st/2nd year guys together is the recipe for what we've been so used to and apparently what people want to continue to do.
I don’t personally think AB and Jett, in their rookie seasons, are the solution to what we are seeing right now… or have been for the last 20-30 games.
The Front Office decided to do both things simultaneously - develop young talent while aiming for a realistic playoff run for “experience”. Now, people love talking about that **** but your roster is what takes you that much further and nothing else. They had the opportunity to make additions and didn’t. 40 year old Joe Ingles that jogs up the floor doesn’t count as a solution to ball movement.
Everyone gets hyped on some of these wins, but BAD losses to BAD teams and playing down to your opponent like Hornets or Blazers isn’t a good sign of a young team. Outside of that, the notion that these games don’t matter “because we are young” is exactly why people should be more upset.
Why? Because habits are being formed. The clock is ticking for the FO to test whether or not Mosely can actually do his job. Yeah he got them to buy in. Can he run an offense? Well it doesn’t seem like he knows how inefficient it looks right now. We will see when he is given more than a broken redemption project semi-bust and a rookie with a learning curve at arguably the most important position on the floor.
Casuals get awestruck by box scores when they don’t watch these games. That’s been the case nearly all season. The offense has looked pretty terrible when it isn’t in transition or off a defensive play. Dare I say bottom 5? I absolutely hate it. It looks like a bad team on that side of the ball and won’t really change until the front office stops sitting on their numb hands.
