Frank Lee wrote:AtheJ415 wrote:jcsunsfan wrote:Here is the problem. The vets don't like it when their minutes are reduced for tanking purposes. It impacts their career stats.
I think you are going to see weird rotations like this. Young players get lots of minutes followed by games where vets get lots of minutes. There will be a lot of dnp's because of nagging injuries and the flu and the like. It will basically be big games followed by rest games.
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Well, then they should play better, because on the season the #1 reason we're losing games aside from Bledsoe's injury is the play of the vets. The youngsters (Booker, Warren, Len), are drastically outplaying the vets in almost every meaningful metric.
The truth is, the more minutes the vets receive, the more successful the tank is.
Define Vet ? 3 yrs in the league ? 26 yrs old ? what is it... will Booker be a vet when he is 24 ? But Knight can't be one till he's 26 ? Is Knight one now ?
This team has spiraled, and I don't think there is one specific thing that spins the top. Multiple new players, poor system (coach), bad PG play (yes, I said it...stats be damned) nagging injuries, malcontent player(s?), .... its a toxic brew.
I mean our 35 year old center, our 32 year old backup PG/starting SG, our 31 year old SF, and our 26 (maybe 27) year old angry. The first 3 are much worse than the guys they start over across the board on overall advanced metrics. Tucker is the better defender over Warren, but his D is drastically outweighed by his awful O in the advanced numbers. Price is a negative player across the board despite some people's insistence that he is a great defender, and worse than Knight, Booker, Bledsoe (basically all our 1-2 guards). Chandler is the worst defender, and arguably worst player, on the team not named Markieff. Len just destroys him statistically.
Then you have Markieff, who magically continues to see minutes over Leuer and Tele despite not doing anything better than either of them. He's a chucking, fouling, turnover machine shooting horribly, and I am not one who believe the front office is forcing Hornacek to play this dude. Not as much as he has this year.