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I agree - you can’t fairly evaluate guys based on 2 minutes of playing time.It doesn’t really mean much to me because it’s 2 minutes of time for a guy who hasn’t played much in 6 games.
The expectation of him being perfect or going out there and instantly making a play happen in 2-3 possessions is illogical. Nobody will get better like that. Mistakes will happen.
Hell he could play 10 minutes next game and not breakout because it’s a process. There’s no instant results with this.
And that’s the annoying thing to me is that having a guy make one mistake can nail him to the bench for the rest of the game. Like damn, can’t even get a chance to learn from it and make it up? Then we’ll wonder why someone plays tight, anxious, and passive.
Case in point - Nowell comes in first half - turns it over & gets beat on D first couple minutes. If Dan Hurley took him out there, board wouldn’t be saying anything good about him. But Hurley sticks with him longer, and Nowell settles down & makes a couple nice plays.
It’s one thing to have a quick hook for lazy play. But for guys that play tight because they never get much PT, I think benching them quick only makes them more tight & tentative.