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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4832812, member: 1329"] Numbers need context. Because the majority of his minutes have come with the Pelicans best players off the court vs. on with him and for some reason the majority of games he's started has been against playoff caliber teams (and often on the road). Here are the teams he's started against: @Nuggets @Thunder @Timberwolves Timberwolves Mavericks Warriors [USER=10942]@jazz[/USER] @Rockets Pistons 6 of the 9 are against top 6 teams + Warriors, 2 of the remaining 3 on the road. In the 9 games, the team was missing one of McCollum, Zion, or Ingram in every game and 4/9 they were missing 2. Ingram missed 3 of them, Zion for 4 of them, and McCollum for 6 of them. Herb Jones also missed 3 of the 9. Trey Murphy didn't play in any of the 9. Alvarado missed 8 and Naji 7 of the 9. Valanciunas and Dyson Daniels are the only guy to play all 9 with him. Matt Ryan and Larry Nance played in 8, Kira Lewis in 7. So of what appears to be the main healthy 9 man rotation (Zion, Ingram, McCollum, Valanciunas, Jones, Murphy, Alvarado, Marshall, Daniels) they missed a combined 40 of the 81 combined possible games. So he was playing with essentially half the team's talent in his starts. Hawkins was -69 in those 9 games and +1 in all other 18 games when he came off the bench. He shot 33% from 3 when forced into being a starter and 39.2% when as a non-garbage time reserve. [/QUOTE]