RaptorsNut wrote:I love Jamario, but Sam is overplaying him. He's gonna wear him out come playoff time. He's never played a season at this level of intensity before, and he's relatively skinny normally playing against much stronger players. He could be a huge difference maker come playoff time, with his energy that this team is lacking. .
He averages 29 mpg for the season, 32 mpg for January. Not huge numbers by any stretch. Moon's probably the last guy we need to worry about playing overextended minutes with his boundless energy. Jose and Bosh are the one's that need to be monitored.
RaptorsNut wrote:I feel that the raptors organization is intentionally not playing Delfino more minutes because it's a contract year. They did it with Mo Pete last year and now they're doing it again.
MoPete played poorly last season in comparison to the previous year. Plus our added depth on the wing didn't require him to log big minutes anymore. From what I can see, those are the biggest reasons he got his minutes cut. And if that was truly the goal of management, why did they make almost no attempt to re-sign him? They went after Kapono on the first day of free-agency.
Delfino plays 24-25 mpg which is pretty much in line with most of the top bench players in the league. The top 6th men on the top teams around the league are Barbosa (30 mpg), Ginobili (29 mpg), Finley (27 mpg), Outlaw (26 mpg), Stackhouse (24 mpg), Kleiza (24 mpg), Maxiell (22 mpg), Posey (22 mpg), Farmer (21 mpg), Arroyo/Evans (20 mpg), Bobby Jackson (19 mpg). So I don't see anything out of line here.
And since a 5 games stretch at the beginning of the month where he was playing awful and didn't earn himself extended minutes, he's been playing closer to 28 mpg so that clearly doesn't point to a player having his minutes cut. .
Just wondering, how does your theory apply to Jose who's also in a contract year and aveages 40 mpg in January?