Cam Reddish Discussion: Starting

FFS, sit the guy until he's 100% ready to play. Are we planning to break him completely or what?

 

Just unbelievable.

 

Bummer to hear about Cam's knee. He should just rest and heal up. We'll need him later and at full speed and health. He's vital to our D.

 

What do we do with Prince though, he's an iron man?!

 

He, the same as Prince, is not being used right IMO. You can’t have 2 starters averaging 24 and 31 minutes per game giving you 6.5 and 9.8 ppg and expect to compete. This isn’t the early 2000’s where you can have guys like Harper, Green, Fox, etc doing that scoring wise and be ok. Prince should be a 15mpg bench guy, Cam should be probably the same, or surrounded by all scorers starting in Prince’s place but maybe not closing games. He simply doesn’t score enough, or even LOOK to score enough, he only very occasionally has games where he puts up and hits 3 or 4 threes, it just isn’t frequent enough.

He’s a solid player, but it’s clear why he was had for the minimum, he isn’t anywhere near consistent enough. Again, his defense is solid, but for me it’s also impressed less as of late, maybe that’s due to the knee thing, but meh, I dunno, I don’t mind Max getting more run and more time to develop over Cam, who I don’t see a big future for here anymore. I certainly hope when he comes back he isn’t a starter anymore at the very least, to me he hasn’t done enough to keep that spot, same as Prince hasn’t.

 

Cam's defense has been a total revelation to me this season. He's pretty elite in that regard and we'll need that come post season (if we get there). He's on a vet min deal and there is no down side to keeping him around except for Ham doing screwy lineup jobs and messing with team chemistry. I like him as a project and he's had a real hand in winning some games for us.

I'm not as high on Prince but I don't hate him at all. I just think Ham is using him WAY too much and he's not getting production out of him relative to usage. He shouldn't be a starter by any stretch. And he shouldn't be playing more than 15-20 minutes a game. Same for Cam. Bring him off the bench for some defensive intensity on the perimeter guys/wings. He and Vando could be staggered for the defensive pressure element.