He's only partially guaranteed next year right? Not sure for how much, can't be that much for year 3 of the 55th pick. I'd like to see him in camp one more time after his continued work rest of this season and the off season. But that's just me and a couple others around here.
They usually do. But you can't throw in the towel until there's only like 6 or so minutes at most left in the 4th and zero chance.
Man we were getting mopped in some of these games. The game was over 3 minutes into the 4th..empty you bench and rest your starters.
yeah, i was carping about this recently. other teams find ways to get young guys reps in real games without losing. and we've had some openings with the injuries. tbh, every gabe minute this year (559 of them) could have gone to a developmental guard, and we likely don't miss a beat in terms of impact. hell, we might have won a couple more games, lol.
I don't know what we are doing sometimes man. We can spot talent but we are suspect on developing them. I think Austin was going to be a player no matter where he went. I hope we get this crap worked out for Thiero. JHS, Dalton, Bronny Maxwell Lewis..nothing
Hasn't been a strong suit in pretty much forever. I've been griping about that since probably Julius Randle if I'm being honest.
well, jhs and lewis are fully out of the league, so it may not have been a development issue, just a complete whiff on talent evaluation in those cases. we'll see on bronny, but i'm not sure he's ever shown he deserved minutes? though, again, could he have been worse than gabe this year? maybe not. i'm still--perhaps stupidly--a believer that knecht will have an nba career. he needs to go to a place that needs his skillset, like how knueppel (who's obviously better) went to charlotte, where his lack of athleticism could be easily hidden and his shooting and playmaking really help other things come together.
Bronny will always be interesting to me because I truly feel like Savannah stopped what would have probably been a great football player (and to be clear, I have no issues with a parent deciding that their child shouldn't play football as I've wrestled with feelings on that myself). I legit think he would have been better than Gabe was but that could be because I am really down on Gabe at this point. The bigger thing to me is that once we decided we were going to draft him to keep the old man happy there should have been a clear development plan in place. That should be the case for any rookie honestly, but a kid like that who is still raw and saw a good chunk of his college career taken away due to illness really needed a development plan. And you know, maybe there was and he is behind or ahead of schedule. I can't answer that, but it sure doesn't ever feel like we've got a handle on developing these young guys. We put them out there with very short leashes. Which makes sense until you watch guys like Gabe making even worse mistakes but still getting playing time. Or you see a guy like Timme come in and actually be effective and then back to the bench. I don't know. I don't see an NBA starter or anything, but I do see a guy who is lacking in confidence but does have athleticism and appears to work hard. He put up good numbers in the g league. I also don't really have that immediate "get this guy off the floor" feeling like I had with Gabe, though the sample size is small and he usually plays in garbage time. Time's up on the experiment once LeBron is gone, but I will be curious to see what happens after that. I feel like he needs the kind of confidence you only really get from being on the floor.
only thing i can figure is that gabe doesn't make as many schematic and mental mistakes? like it's clear the leash on dalton is that he flat out forgets plays and is out of position. seems like jj has zero tolerance for that. bronny's a tough case, though, because if you let him play through mistakes, you'll be accused of nepotism by proxy or whatever. but to me, stuff like missed shots and turnovers resulting from unfamiliarity with teammates and/or the speed of the game is stuff that you have to roll with if you're going to develop guys. you can't simulate nba athleticism and execution anywhere but in real nba games. with the exception of maybe kleber, our minutes distribution outside the three stars is sorted almost directly by age. i guess jake plays a bit more than vando/gabe do/did, but the spurs are playing young guys without getting killed, and teams like phx and even the clippers are playing tons of young guys and overachieving (the clippers were basically saved from themselves with the paul and beal exits opening up time for living players). in phx, goodwin, dunn, and ighodaro all play 20mpg. gillespie plays 28. these were all recent development projects (one of them ours, dammit!) who were deemed unplayable shortly before...they weren't! same with jordan miller and kobe sanders for the tenants. i really don't think these guys are substantially more talented than thiero/bufkin/knecht--and maybe not even bronny in some cases. they were just forced into opportunities and capitalized. i'm of half a mind to have rob and company hand out one or two huge 1-year FA deals kcp style this offseason so that jj is forced to play a few of the development guys actual minutes due to lack of options.
