I was talking about going forward (there were a few games that IME tried out Jabari/JH at the 5, but no big deal, its been corrected)@benhogan and @Jimbodandy you are 2 of my favorite posters in MBPC. But where are all these mins that Jabari and Herno is getting that you want AN to get in stead? When did PP get alot more egregious mins then AN?
Garbage and position specific seem the real culprits. Jabari played center for a few mins when RWill was out (so we needed some Big man mins). And Herno played in Garbage time (Which I think AN did as well).
And PP played some "guard mins" which I guess AN could have done but its a bit out of his comfort zone bringing the ball up and iniating the Offense.
Maybe I missed it. Just what egregious mins are you claiming he should have gotten???
Is he supposed to play before Romeo? Richardson? GWill? Those are the guys he is competing with.
No one wants to see AN play and develop more then Me (and the rest of us.....either to become that sniper or that trade bait).
I am just not sure what Ime can do other then ask the opposing coach if he wants to play a 5th quarter.
Actually as crazy as it sounds I might like to see AN START instead of "Current" Jaylen. One I think Jaylen isnt adding much if anything (i could be very wrong....his defense at times last night was decent). 2 I think AN might benefit from the attention that JT, DS and Al can draw in various forms. 3 Finally I think for young players alot of success is actually momentum. Example last year with PP and "his first shot". Get AN in early when a possession or 3 wont kill you. Let me take a shot or 3 with JT drawing 2 or a guy dropping to double Al in the post.
I see this (being the 4th or 5th option as a starter) as better opportunity then trying to be the 2nd or 3rd option with the reserves.
All of that may sound insane...but basically I dont think AN has a current spot as player 6-9. But I do think he could Start instead of Jaylen.
Of course Jaylen would need to be (and perhaps should be....) on the shelf for this to happen.
Finally i have no idea of the problems with internal dynamics this would cause. Would Schroder freak out? Would Richardson? Is AN "showing the necessary effort" in practice for Ime to be able to do this?
But until Jaylen sits....not sure there is mins for AN starting or off the bench beyond the junk wing mins. So in that aspect I agree He should play in front of Herno and (position dependent) Jabari
There are no minutes for AN (& barely any mins for Romeo or Kanter) with a fully healthy roster. BUT I suspect Jaylen won't go back-to-back in the next few weeks and we'll have some other players go down.
IME seems to be settling into a 9-man rotation on a nightly basis. With full health, I have AN at #11, so we'd need two guys to be out for him to get minutes.
There is so much positional flexibility with 1-10, you never really have to play PP ahead of AN. DS/MS/JR or a wing (even Al) can all initiate the offense
It's important to see if IME can get Aaron going before the trade deadline. If he can't, then Brad needs to add a sniper, but we'll never know if Nesmith doesn't get those loose minutes. I'm nowhere close to writing him off at this point