RexBoyWonder wrote:BBallFreak wrote:Should he be? I mean, aren't we supposed to be putting out our best players right now? This isn't a youth thing because Jaime Jaquez is playing major minutes. He just happens to be ready.RexBoyWonder wrote:right. Spo doesn't play him at all.
Yes I think he should, he showed enough flashes to make me believe he can outproduce K.Love if given a consistent chance to get some rhythm.
He was a winning player for a team that got to the world championships finals, it's not like he's some clueless raw prospect.
He's a project and to put him in now on a team that's wanting to compete for a title means having to limit Jovic by having him play as a role-player for this season and that would mean him getting used to playing that specific way and training to be better in that role instead of continuing to work on his skill set that could make him a much more diverse player. He likes to handle the ball, but that skill isn't at a good NBA level so if he's in and tries to do it he'll probably not have success and start shying away from it to help the team and with that, limiting his growth.
If this were a bad team not trying to win, sure you give him reps, you let him make his mistakes and encourage him to keep going although he's making mistakes, currently Miami can't do that, they can't try to win games and be good with a lot of mistakes because this player is only x number of seasons from possibly being really good.
