WolfAddict wrote:When your rookie is taking more shots than your star player, we are building failure. We have to let go of this stupid idea that every rookie we take needs to be a star straight away
I'm with this 100%. It's an endless circle of annual draft choices and overplay leading to predestined horrible seasons they end up calling development seasons. It's a joke on all the fans that bother to watch because that's a recipe for a bad farm team and nothing else. A bad farm team because they don't even develop players well.
Starters start. New rookies develop from bench minutes and watching starting level players play more. They earn their stripes and right to start when ready. Not until then. That's how it should be. Only generational talents should have your team blowing this tried and true plan up, or a big stinking hole in the starting roster you have nothing else to fill it with. But if they think that's the case this time, you still don't put the whole offense through that rookie. It would be so much greater to see annual positives from rookies in smaller minute loads that point to a better future on flashes and have them working on things that will soon make them a starter once they add it to their game.
Edwards with 17 starts in 34 games
LaMello only has 12 starts in 32 games even playing as he has. Though his minutes average has lept up lately.
Haliburton, only 2 starts in 30 games even though he's the only one of the three averaging 30 mins/g already.
We watch the worst run franchise in prosports every year repeat their same. The Kings are 13-20 and we don't see them starting Haliburton every game already or asking him to shoot 22 times a game even though Haliburton is a 49% FG and 43% 3FG shooter. Timberwolves should trade Edwards and Beasley to Kings for Haliburton since so many fans only want to cheer on rookies and the team has to have better shooting.
On a side note, I think KAT needs a little 3pt practice. I see rust on that front compared to his history.
