Give me a reason why he doesn’t play especially with Rozier out. He’s being set up to fail, like almost every Hornets draft pick not named Melo. It’s a trash organization and that’s why I didn’t want him there. Your career doesn’t get better there 9/10 times.
Totally different coaching staff. Cliff is notorious for not playing younger players. Monks issues were a lot to do with off the court stuff and not committing to defense.
Yep, I wouldn’t look all that much into it. I know people will look at the score and ask how he wasn’t playing down 20+. But this was a have to have it game for the Hornets, Look at who played. Indiana only went 8 deep, Hornets only played one guard off the bench. Can’t compare him to Duarte who may have been the most pro ready player in the draft, he’s also 24 year old rookie… He’ll get some run tomorrow against the Cavs even if Rozier comes back. The rotations will look a bit different.
Thank you for at least trying to justify things. Rozier was out and Bouk still doesn't get to play is a massive red flag no matter what. He led all rookies in PPG over preseason. Cody Martin, who has career averages of 4.5 ppg, plays 24 minutes. Who cares if Bouk is a rookie. He is better than Cody Martin. He should play over Cody Martin. Plain and simple. Borrego is a bad coach for not playing his best available players.
He wasn't listed on any injury report, so it's not the elbow. It's against the rules to hide injuries. The fact they don't want to mention anything just proves the point they are an incompetent organization.
While I agree that Bouk should have played in some capacity, they were down by double digits most of the game and Cody Martin was in there as a better defender than Bouk just from a pure experience stand point.
Agreed, but they never really had it in hand.
Sometimes there’s more involved to playing time than points per game. There may be things that the casual fan doesn’t necessarily have a right to know. That wouldn’t be fair to the player or coach. Let the process work. Long term this is not necessarily a bad thing for James.
Agreed, well put chief. @ThabeetDown don’t lose sleep over this one. Plenty of other topics to have hot takes on.
And now it’s game 2
He lead all rookies in scoring across summer league and preseason (18.3 on 50/36/77 shooting), but u right
How so? He is a lottery pick and was scoring 16 ppg in preseason. Curious on why you don’t think he’s ready.
Nesmith has Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum and Marcus Smart blocking him. Bouknight has Ish Smith and Cody Martin taking his minutes. Quite the difference.
Lottery picks don’t usually sit the pine
