Game 6: Suns @ Thunder 10/28 - 4:00 pm (7 ET)

[No Koko]

He will, eventually. He's following a common trend of "earn it" first (to which I agree). And you cannot give a rookie preference over a vet with only 6 games played. It's building q culture, and it can't be too fast.

I am predicting we will see a lot more minutes for the youngsters around December and they will become starters after the ASB, and our basketball quality will improve accordingly.

For now, though, it's just so painful to watch

Enough of this. TJ Warren is not a **** rookie. He has earned it while Ryan Anderson has earned nothing more than a seat next to Bender at the end of the bench.

Agree, but in this particular case I think Warren is projected to be a 6th man anyways, so he'll keep coming of the bench until they change his role. I was thinking more about Okobo and Bridges

Which is absolutely stupid. Warren should be our starting PF for the next 8 years.

And as far as I'm concerned Okobo and Bridges have already earned minutes over Canaan and Jackson. I don't see how anybody could say otherwise.

[MathiasPW]

Enough of this. TJ Warren is not a **** rookie. He has earned it while Ryan Anderson has earned nothing more than a seat next to Bender at the end of the bench.

Agree, but in this particular case I think Warren is projected to be a 6th man anyways, so he'll keep coming of the bench until they change his role. I was thinking more about Okobo and Bridges

Which is absolutely stupid. Warren should be our starting PF for the next 8 years.

And as far as I'm concerned Okobo and Bridges have already earned minutes over Canaan and Jackson. I don't see how anybody could say otherwise.

If you are a coach and you make such changes in 6 games you will loose your players really fast.

[No Koko]

Agree, but in this particular case I think Warren is projected to be a 6th man anyways, so he'll keep coming of the bench until they change his role. I was thinking more about Okobo and Bridges

Which is absolutely stupid. Warren should be our starting PF for the next 8 years.

And as far as I'm concerned Okobo and Bridges have already earned minutes over Canaan and Jackson. I don't see how anybody could say otherwise.

If you are a coach and you make such changes in 6 games you will loose your players really fast.

I agree. That's why the correct rotation should have already been set after preseason, so there would be no need to switch anything up.

The only problem is Bridges and Okobo never got a single real opportunity in summer league or preseason. Why the hell did Shaq Harrison get all of Okobo's minutes in preseason and summer league? We cut him for NOTHING! Elie got no playing time in summer league or preseason, and the exact same can be said for Mikal Bridges, the #10 pick! That is just incompetence from both the coach and the organization. If they would have been given opportunities they probably would have earned big roles in the rotation starting game 1.

[TeamTragic]

Which is absolutely stupid. Warren should be our starting PF for the next 8 years.

And as far as I'm concerned Okobo and Bridges have already earned minutes over Canaan and Jackson. I don't see how anybody could say otherwise.

If you are a coach and you make such changes in 6 games you will loose your players really fast.

I agree. That's why the correct rotation should have already been set after preseason, so there would be no need to switch anything up.

The only problem is Bridges and Okobo never got a single real opportunity in summer league or preseason. Why the hell did Shaq Harrison get all of Okobo's minutes in preseason and summer league? We cut him for NOTHING! Elie got no playing time in summer league or preseason, and the exact same can be said for Mikal Bridges, the #10 pick! That is just incompetence from both the coach and the organization. If they would have been given opportunities they probably would have earned big roles in the rotation starting game 1.

We have Robert "Clown" Sarver and James "Championship" Jones. Their first move was signing Jamal Crawford

[Damkac]

One positive though after this game:
I'm so happy that Chandler, Ariza and Anderson won't be on the roster next season.

[No Koko]

One positive though after this game:
I'm so happy that Chandler, Ariza and Anderson won't be on the roster next season.

That's what you think.

[bigfoot]

Agree, but in this particular case I think Warren is projected to be a 6th man anyways, so he'll keep coming of the bench until they change his role. I was thinking more about Okobo and Bridges

Which is absolutely stupid. Warren should be our starting PF for the next 8 years.

And as far as I'm concerned Okobo and Bridges have already earned minutes over Canaan and Jackson. I don't see how anybody could say otherwise.

If you are a coach and you make such changes in 6 games you will loose your players really fast.

I agree with this. I think someone posted that our starters are doing an adequate job staying close to the other teams starters. We lose touch with the other team when our bench players come in. I don't think it is a problem increasing Bridges' minutes and lowering Jack-one-up-son's. Warren is doing fine so no problem there. Give Bender/Holmes minutes to Chandler as well. When we hit 10 games then we can start evaluating Ariza/Anderson/Canaan.