Rip2137 wrote:The D League offers consistent minutes but people act like the kid is getting spat on for sending him there.
Bottomline, he isn't getting minutes because all of our games are incredibly close. When your games are that close, you can't afford to give 8 minutes to a guy that not only turns the ball over, but the BAD turnovers. He goes out and 1 - gets the opposing team to the bonus sooner because he is playing overly aggressive defense and he is tossing the NBA equivalent of pick 6's on offense where not only is he turning the ball over, they are the lead to fast break varieties. How many games are you willing to lose so that you can find out if one guy MIGHT be a player worth investing in?
I criticized Woodson because he wouldn't play young players in blowouts, when we were CLEARLY out of the playoff race, when they were outplaying the guy in front of them, after great games...anything..This isn't the same case. Dennis lost his minutes to another young player. D-League him, get him more minutes if there is a injury, but he has got to earn some minutes.
The other thing is that I think Bud has determined his 8 man rotation. I agree with you, it would be best for Dennis to go to the D-League. Namely because Mack is looking very good. My thinking is that we haven't pulled that trigger because the trade Deadline hasn't passed yet. There's a bunch of Hawks fans that want Teague to fail so that we can rush Dennis into the PG position. I don't think that Teague will fail and I don't think Dennis will be ready for a starting PG assignment for a couple of years.