Bad-Thoma wrote:playa-hater wrote:Since I see a conversation about Nesmith in this thread and comments along the lines of "he's not ready" "missed summer camp" no preseason etc,, I get all of that. And I get that I may be near the top Nesmith supporter of playing time here.
With that said, NOT once did I say he was ready or even close to ready. But in a longer more detailed response I did a month or 2 ago, I made the point about getting someone ready and using Jay Wright's philosophy of going through the growing pains process to "get the player ready faster"
Looking back now, no matter what you think of Nesmith's game/potential, there was no reason, NONE, that so many "bad"/no future players like C Edwards, T Waters, J Green, J Teague should have played over Nesmith. As I stated many times, playing players with NOT much positive production and more importantly, NO FUTURE with us was a waste.
If I wasn't so focused on our current playoff run, I would get into why Nesmith should have been given many of Semi's minutes as well.
*If you ever in your life played some serious level of BB, you would know that more playing time = more comfortable + more comfortable = better results. It really is that simple.
Here's what I don't get with this. Nesmith, as a really raw rookie has played more minutes than Javonte and more than Carsen and Tremont combined. Considering some of this minutes they probably were on the floor together in garbage time, especially in Tremont's case, the disparity is even higher. Javonte actually could play some man defense and Nesmith still saw more time than him overall. Teague was a whole different animal, he was brought in as a veteran pg and played his most minutes while Kemba was out, there was no way Nesmith was getting his minutes as he couldn't fill that role and with no Kemba the back court was kind of thin. So Brad played this raw kid more than any of the guys you mentioned when we were short handed other than Teague who was (at least was supposed to be and was starting to finally fit in before being traded) filling a role that Nesmith really couldn't so where is the problem?
I'll agree that if this season wasn't about winning he should get more minutes but that was never the case, even when we were looking bad getting better was always the focus for this team regardless of some fans weird tanking fetishes.
This season has never been about winning. There is zero xhance in a championship. I hope im wrong but lets be real. I never had them past second round, still dont.
Having tremont, edwards, semi, gran, green, semi, teague, pritchard, nesmith are not championship level players.
So then you have to look at who can become key parts to a championship team and get them the run to improve fast. Guys that were getting burn will never be those championship level pieces.
We are not winning it all, so why not get guys like nesmith run like what playa hater posted.
If i was to grade potential, nesmith is maybe a b.
Semi, javonte, edwards are f.yet alot of minutes have been wasted on those 3 and continue to be in semis case.
**** hate grant to, but thats on danny.
Just wamt some long players on the team and jot undersized players
