Tim Hardaway Jr.

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

I didn't mean for my post to come off as if Wood and Hardaway are competing for minutes, just that I feel their mistakes are being handled differently but it also feels as if I feel differently about the way Hardaway is playing.  If the coach wants him to take all those shots, that's fine, but to me there's obvious mistakes being made by Hardaway on the offensive side of the ball.  There was a possession earlier in the second where he had an easy swing to Wood on a rotation that the defense hadn't caught up to yet but took a contested shot that he bricked (he actually made that pass on the same set later in that quarter which led to Wood driving and kicking it out to a MUCH more open Green who knocked it down) and then the fast break that he decided to take 1 on 3.  To me these are mistakes that would cost Green minutes so why not Hardaway?  Why is Wood yanked after one missed rotation on defense but Hardaway is allowed a much longer leash in terms of his (in my opinion) mistakes?

I know they want and need him shooting, but what we're seeing isn't just poor shooting, it's awful decision making at times.

Also to the point of Hardaway being our at least our 4th most polished offensive player, I totally agree (and it bums me out)!  Last year though, we made it to the conference finals with only 3 polished players that could only be used 2 at once and that didn't stop us.  While I know Hardaway has been decent on defense, it's certainly not why he's out there, so it feels like maybe we're pressing to get him to a place that really isn't even going to move the needle all that much for us and we're doing it at the cost of what feel like easy wins early on.