RunDogGun wrote:On basketball reference, Green is the only player on the roster with an R next to his name, so maybe that would be the reason? Anderson was needed to start eight games, so it wasn't like they found minutes to give him because they know how to develop their youth, which is what was implied. Almost half of his minutes were from this eight games, where he averaged pretty crappy numbers 5/4 in 20 mins per.
Make sense now?
Not exactly, but whatever. I dont even know how this whole "Spurs dont give their rookies minutes" topic started.
As for Anderson was NEEDED to start 8 games, i dont buy it. They had Belinelli, who they could have started. They had Austin Daye as well. They also have Danny Green who plays some minutes at SF as well. They didnt have to start the rookie, but did, as the do have a history of using their rookies.
Kawaii? Yup. As a rookie he played in 64 games averaging 24 minutes.
Corey Joseph? Played 29 games as a rookie and averaged 9 minutes.
DeJuan Blair? Played in 82 games as a rookie and averaged 18 minutes per game.
George Hill? 77 games as a rookie and averaged 16.5 minutes.
Splitter (drafted in 2007, didnt come over till 2010). 60 games played. 12.5 minutes per game.
So thats the Spurs 1st round draft history and how many games/minutes the rookies played.
