Manocad wrote:bstein14 wrote:Manocad wrote:Remarkable how many people here believe they know better than an NBA coach and GM, yet aren't NBA coaches or GM's. Go figure.
I'm not saying I know more than our coach or our GM. Everyone can see how Killian played last season and everyone knows he didn't come into this season earning the starting job either it was gifted to him last year and this year based on where we drafted him and the fact that we're in a period of playing the game to develop young players and winning is secondary. Hayes is getting a chance because of where the team that drafted him is at as a franchise, which is fine, but that only lasts for so long.
Mike Malone got to Denver and they had a young team and they won 33 games, 40 games, 46 games (still missed the playoffs), and 54 games.
He talked about Bol Bol recently and said that his first few years as a coach in Denver he could play young guys and they could make mistakes and players were developing and able to keep playing. With Bol Bol drafted in 2019 he mentioned that he can no longer play projects because every game is important in trying to get home court advantage so Bol Bol is only going to get minutes in blowouts or if several other players are out/injured/foul trouble, etc. It's going to be a similar shift for us next season most likely. Best case scenario is that Hayes improves himself to the point that he is out there helping us try to win games next season.
You literally keep burying your own argument. "Hayes didn't earn the starting job coming into the season." AND NO ONE ELSE DID, EITHER. And considering the only other player in this debate would be Saben Lee, who also hasn't "earned" the starting PG slot, your point in that regard has zero merit. When you draft a player at 7 to be your PG of the future then draft another player at 38 the next year who doesn't clearly outshine your planned PG of the future, it's not "gifting" the starting job to the PG of the future when you start him. That's what most of us call "the plan." And yes, like any other player Hayes' chance at being a starter only last so long, and like you yourself just said, right now that's fine. So you gripe because Hayes is still starting then go on to say it's fine for now.
And yes, you ARE saying you know better than the coach and GM when you use terms like "everyone can see" and "everyone knows" because you're classifying your own opinion as "everyone," i.e. giving it the credence of being the opinion of the masses which conflicts with the coach and GM, thus it must be right/better/smarter. Except as has been clearly demonstrated here it's not even the majority opinion of this board; it's just your opinion (well, yours and a few other people). Ergo, you know better than the coach and GM.
I told you I'd get mileage out of this.
Look at how Saben Lee played as a rookie and how Killian played as a rookie. Saben was lightyears ahead of Lee last season.
Saben Lee was better in summer league. Our 2nd leading scorer and 40% from three compared to Hayes' 18%. https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/summer/1/NBA-Summer-League/47/stats/Detroit-Pistons/8/Averages/All/per/All/desc/1/Summer_League
Saben was much better in the preseason for us this season as well. Looks at the stats. https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/preseason/team/Detroit-Pistons/8/stats
Overall Saben outplayed him the entire way right up to being the guy going to the G League, because he was a 2nd rounder. If Saben was gifted the role that Hayes has been gifted he would likely be far beyond where Killian is right now. It's really the type of thing that leads to locker room issues. Giving a player that isn't deserving major minutes while guys outplaying him in practice and at every other chance are glued to the bench. These are vets that are sitting because they are accepting that role coming in. These are young guys trying to make a name for themselves in the league that are getting screwed out of minutes and an opportunity to play and that's what Diallo was upset earlier this year on the bench and that's why he'll likely be upset again if Casey sends him to the bench and keeps Hayes in the starting lineup when Grant comes back.