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Allanfan20
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tomnerve, you're post is well researched and well thought of and you deserve 2 thumbs up, but there's some flaw to it, as well as JoeC. The way I see it (And I think there's a few posters here who would agree) that using purely stats does not tell the story. YES, the rookies certainly did get their fair share of playing time. Maybe Lee got snubbed a little, but Frye and Nate got enough. Plus, in dealing with Lee, you could tell frequently, on the court, why he was getting snubbed. I'm not getting into those reasons, but his inexperience and rawness was clear as daylight to me.
In terms of that PER stuff, I don't really understand it, but I hear it's just an indicator of your general on court performance. THat's a stat I really cannot buy into. You'd have to actually watch the games to judge the impact a player has on his team. Frequently, the 3 guys played real well and always worked hard, but like I said, inexperience was the big factor. 3 years from now, I don't care who the coach is, all 3 of them will be getting big minutes.
This is why I find it hard to really criticize Brown for this area. No matter what, with or w/o the rookies playing, the Knicks would have been awful. So why not make them earn the playing time, and I'm not talking about earning it over the vets already on the Knicks. I'm talking about earning it by passing the standard the Brown has set. I am pretty sure that passing the standard Brown sets is a lot more difficult than doing better than the vets, regardless of how well they are playing. I am pretty sure Bonn is ignoring this paragraph b/c he usually does when I try to make this arguement to him.
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do NOT do that thing.”- Dwight Schrute
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