How quickly do you believe Okongwu will be given significant (20+) minutes?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 3:42 pm
It will be interesting to see now that the tanking phase is explicitly understood as past history whether King Kong will get significant minutes at some point, and if so, when. Given that Capela, Collins and Gallo almost certainly will absorb most of the sum total 96 minutes at the 4 and 5 until/unless one is injured (*knocks on wood*), it's a viable question.
Up until now, it was just an innate thing--rookies had to play, and it was by design. Many head coaches, though, in a playoff-goal paradigm purposely attempt to bring a rookie along slowly--Budenholzer being one of those, of course. I recall it seeming that Prince and Schroder were predestined to end-of-the-bench status for the first half of their rookie seasons, and even after that, never in the game for any crucial minutes until maybe late in the season when playoff seeding was more or less settled.
No real way to have an educated guess as to how Pierce will approach it, right?
Up until now, it was just an innate thing--rookies had to play, and it was by design. Many head coaches, though, in a playoff-goal paradigm purposely attempt to bring a rookie along slowly--Budenholzer being one of those, of course. I recall it seeming that Prince and Schroder were predestined to end-of-the-bench status for the first half of their rookie seasons, and even after that, never in the game for any crucial minutes until maybe late in the season when playoff seeding was more or less settled.
No real way to have an educated guess as to how Pierce will approach it, right?
