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I understand wanting to give the time to guys who have been there, but Hawkins has scored 25+ three times this season. Daniels’ season (and career) high is 17. When he was getting minutes, he was also up there as one of the better rebounders on the team.
He was playing his way onto the rookie 1st team while Dyson and Naji are trying to play their way into being decent bench pieces. Small sample size but the levels seem very different right now
He’s not a plus defender, but neither is half of the Pelicans roster. They’re very average on defense. Are your bench guards going to move the needle defensively when half of your starting 5 can’t, or doesn’t want to, defend?
The question for me is what else do you want Hawkins to do? He was drafted as offensive sharpshooting firepower and he delivered. If there’s nothing else he can do and he’s just stuck behind the guys ahead of him (which seems like the case), why use a lottery pick on him?
He was playing his way onto the rookie 1st team while Dyson and Naji are trying to play their way into being decent bench pieces. Small sample size but the levels seem very different right now
He’s not a plus defender, but neither is half of the Pelicans roster. They’re very average on defense. Are your bench guards going to move the needle defensively when half of your starting 5 can’t, or doesn’t want to, defend?
The question for me is what else do you want Hawkins to do? He was drafted as offensive sharpshooting firepower and he delivered. If there’s nothing else he can do and he’s just stuck behind the guys ahead of him (which seems like the case), why use a lottery pick on him?