Welcome to Boston, Neemias Queta!!!

[djFan71]

Well I never said "a coach had nothing to do with development", but rather it is "secondary to actually getting PT" You can have a coach or ast Coach/trainer teach anything and everything in Practice, but it will not result in anything until that player gets the chance to puts it into Live action. and even then, that Coach has to allow him to make mistakes without having that player looking over his shoulder worried about getting benched and getting some DNPs over the next week or 2.

Also why hasn't Kornet displayed any of the footwork-moves-mid-range-deep shooting that Neemy is currently displaying? Clearly Joe has not taught Neemy any of that, because if he did, Kornet would have had/displayed it first.

First paragraph, fair. You original post seemed to discount the idea that "Joe is doing a great job of developing him" as ridiculous. But, I'm not here to argue semantics, we're in total agreement that guys need PT to develop.

2nd paragraph, c'mon. Different players have different abilities in general. Even amongst bigs you focus development on different things based on where the player is when you get them. You know this.

You Sir are Not wrong.. Yet I am unchanged in my perception of Joe.. Sorry.. Slow offseason

[phincsfan]

I think Joe did a disservice to Neems and Walsh last season.

Unless they were injured they should have played in almost every game.

IMO, bigs need consistent minutes when developing them.

Beef stew saw 20mpg in 70+ games AND IMO, he's not that much better than Neems.

[Gant]

I think Joe did a disservice to Neems and Walsh last season.

Unless they were injured they should have played in almost every game.

IMO, bigs need consistent minutes when developing them.

Beef stew saw 20mpg in 70+ games AND IMO, he's not that much better than Neems.

Last year's depth charts for Boston and Detroit explain everything.

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I think Joe did a disservice to Neems and Walsh last season.

Unless they were injured they should have played in almost every game.

IMO, bigs need consistent minutes when developing them.

Beef stew saw 20mpg in 70+ games AND IMO, he's not that much better than Neems.

This isn't a charity where we're supposed to just hand out minutes to everybody. This isn't rec league where everyone gets a medal and everyone plays the same amount.

This is the NBA and it was a championship or bust season.

You play your best players. Period.

If a young kid earns mins in practice/games/offseason workouts/summer league/preseason then you give him the mins they earn. But there's no handouts. You don't just blindly give young, unproven kids 20MPG in 70+ games. Not even lottery teams do that. The Jazz were tanking and they had a top 10 pick (Taylor Hendricks) in the G league. Why? Because he wasn't good enough yet for more NBA mins.

If you're a 21 year old kid who has unproven at the NBA level and you're on a team with the best wing duo in the league, plus one of the best wing shooters in the league off the bench, who also just drafted a wing in the 1st round and you're a 2nd round pick wing, it's probably gonna be hard to crack the rotation.

And if you're on a team where it's championship or bust, a team with probably the deepest center rotation in NBA history and you're the youngest, least experienced big on the roster, it's probably gonna be hard to get a ton of mins..