2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

[KillerLeft]

There is no reason why you cannot let him get minutes each game and let him spread his wings a little.  I agree the minutes may be tight, but still he doesn't exactly have the 2020 all star game wings in front of him.   

Again, I share your optimism for the player in question, but I'm not sure I agree that "there's no reason" to keep him out of the regular rotation. 

All of the players I mentioned earlier are more ready than he, are they not? I can see there being time available for a guy like him if DFS is playing like 50% of his minutes at the 4, but there are people here who are dead-set against that, and we just don't know if that's the plan. If Markkanen is here, it probably isn't. The plan might be for DFS to play almost no minutes at the 4. We just don't know. 

Also, Luka and Brunson will play together, like a lot. To my mind, that means the competition for backup guard minutes is between Burke, Terry, SBrown and Green. I'd bet a lot of money that ability to handle the ball is going to be  one of the chief factors applied there. I like Green more than Burke, and I honestly don't know how well SBrown handles, but I think it's plausible that Green comes in last place in that contest, too. 

Competition is good, so this is a better situation for Green in many ways than one in which he was clearly factored in for a role and depended upon to produce. But, I don't know that the people pissed about how Green didn't pay "enough" last season are going to be super happy this year. 

I don't think I'd spend this asset for either LM or Dragic, but I wouldn't be surprised if not doing so results in a lowering of his value over time, either. 

Who knows, maybe he has added some offensive elements to his game (or learned enough that he'll be allowed to utilize elements he already had in real games) and this will be a breakout year for him.