It really feels like living in bizarro world, where Mavs fans actually blame Luka for any of this. He´s selfish. He´s out of shape. Holyshit.
We´d be the Detroit Pistons, if it wasn´t for Luka. Only we´d be playing a veteran rotation, while being 18-40.
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So fatigue is an acknowledged factor!
Detroit´s team from the last game:
Age/NBA experience:
Starters
23 / Rookie / 540 minutes
21 / Rookie / 1440 minutes
19 / Rookie / 1135 minutes
19 / Rookie / 315 minutes
24 / 5th year / 5636 minutes
Bench
25 / 7th year / 4664 minutes
22 / 5th year / 2428 minutes
21 / Sophomore / 542 minutes
22 / 4th year / 2408 minutes
Just for comparison:
Dwight Powell
29 / 8th year / 7558 minutes
Powell basically has the same NBA experience as the starters of the Pistons combined.
Yet we are supposed to believe Carlisle can´t find a way to give 30 of 240 game minutes, which is just 12.5% of the game to our rookies, without a huge risk of losing the game to an 18-40 team?
Well then Carlisle is simply not a good coach, let alone a great coach.
The fact that Carlisle has the 100% backing of his owner and a virtual job guarantee, should make it even easier for him, to incorporate/develop rookies, without fear of losing his job over the odd loss.
And hey crazy thought maybe we don´t lose some of these games to the Rockets, Thunder or Kings, if we had two rookies out there all year, who had gotten experience, had fresh legs and had reduced the overall workload of the key rotational players. Maybe they match the energy and effort of the young Rockets and Thunder.
So what do you think are the odds, we´ll see Green, Bey or Hinton for extended periods tonight?
Tomorrow they´ll complain again about fatigue against the Lakers.
We´d be the Detroit Pistons, if it wasn´t for Luka. Only we´d be playing a veteran rotation, while being 18-40.
_____________
So fatigue is an acknowledged factor!
Detroit´s team from the last game:
Age/NBA experience:
Starters
23 / Rookie / 540 minutes
21 / Rookie / 1440 minutes
19 / Rookie / 1135 minutes
19 / Rookie / 315 minutes
24 / 5th year / 5636 minutes
Bench
25 / 7th year / 4664 minutes
22 / 5th year / 2428 minutes
21 / Sophomore / 542 minutes
22 / 4th year / 2408 minutes
Just for comparison:
Dwight Powell
29 / 8th year / 7558 minutes
Powell basically has the same NBA experience as the starters of the Pistons combined.
Yet we are supposed to believe Carlisle can´t find a way to give 30 of 240 game minutes, which is just 12.5% of the game to our rookies, without a huge risk of losing the game to an 18-40 team?
Well then Carlisle is simply not a good coach, let alone a great coach.
The fact that Carlisle has the 100% backing of his owner and a virtual job guarantee, should make it even easier for him, to incorporate/develop rookies, without fear of losing his job over the odd loss.
And hey crazy thought maybe we don´t lose some of these games to the Rockets, Thunder or Kings, if we had two rookies out there all year, who had gotten experience, had fresh legs and had reduced the overall workload of the key rotational players. Maybe they match the energy and effort of the young Rockets and Thunder.
So what do you think are the odds, we´ll see Green, Bey or Hinton for extended periods tonight?
Tomorrow they´ll complain again about fatigue against the Lakers.