ilikebeer wrote:Our bench is horrible. We need some QUALITY bench guys to compete.
The only decent guys on our bench: Battie, Cook
Dooling can defend but should never touch the ball on offense.
Gortat could be okay. I just can't understand why a guy like Gortat would only play like three games all season then play significant minutes in every single postseason game. I can't help feeling like if Gortat would have gotten some of minutes we wasted on Foyle he could have contributed more in playoffs.
The thing is that Gortat was nowhere near ready when the season started. It took alot of hard work & training on his part, many practices against Dwight Howard and attention from the coaching staff to help him develop to the point that he could play. Stan himself said that he has never seen a player improve soo much from the start to the end of the season like Gortat did. After the all star break he should have gotten playing time and Stan did lament that he should have played him more. Considering the lack of bigman depth, Gortat should have been given a chance sooner. Its dissapointing that didnt happen, but better late than never i guess. Atleast now as we head into next season we know that he can play and looks like a good bench asset, that wasent the case before the last week of the regular season.
