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For the regular season, is 36 MPG really anything to get worried about from Aldridge and Lillard? If you look at the playoff teams in the West, only SAS Spurs played their best player(s) less than 35MPG during the regular season. Yeah, I wish we could be more like the Spurs, but our best players aren't nearly AARP eligible and our bench isn't deep as fuck.
The fact is, the Spurs have so much talent, they can afford to play Duncan, Parker and Ginobili fewer minutes and still finish with the best record in entire league. We don't have that much talent. NOBODY else has that much talent. I wish we didn't but we don't.
GSW: Curry and Thompson averaged more MPG than than Aldridge and Lillard
LAC: Blake, CP3, DeAndre Jordan all => 35MPG
DAL: Monta = 36.9 MPG, 35-year old Dirk = 32.9 MPG for 80 games
OKC: 38.5 MPG for Durant
HOU: Harden (38.0) and Parsons (37.6) more MPG than Aldridge and Lillard
MEM: The only Western Conference playoff team, other than the Spurs, that didn't play their best one or two players as much, or more than Adridge and Lillard. And a lot of good all that rest did them, they still lost in the first round. Maybe if they would have played their starters more during the regular season they would have had a better record and a higher seed and would have made it past the first round. Hard to say.
Aldridge has played big minutes ever since his second season. In fact, he's playing FEWER MPG under Stotts than he did under McMillan. Lillard is young and 36 MPG really isn't excessive for a player his age.
So, whether starting a thread after ONE PRESEASON game was an overreaction is up for debate, but I'm not sure if the premise that 36 - 37MPG is excessive is a valid one when most other playoff teams play their best players comparable minutes during the regular season.
BNM
The fact is, the Spurs have so much talent, they can afford to play Duncan, Parker and Ginobili fewer minutes and still finish with the best record in entire league. We don't have that much talent. NOBODY else has that much talent. I wish we didn't but we don't.
GSW: Curry and Thompson averaged more MPG than than Aldridge and Lillard
LAC: Blake, CP3, DeAndre Jordan all => 35MPG
DAL: Monta = 36.9 MPG, 35-year old Dirk = 32.9 MPG for 80 games
OKC: 38.5 MPG for Durant
HOU: Harden (38.0) and Parsons (37.6) more MPG than Aldridge and Lillard
MEM: The only Western Conference playoff team, other than the Spurs, that didn't play their best one or two players as much, or more than Adridge and Lillard. And a lot of good all that rest did them, they still lost in the first round. Maybe if they would have played their starters more during the regular season they would have had a better record and a higher seed and would have made it past the first round. Hard to say.
Aldridge has played big minutes ever since his second season. In fact, he's playing FEWER MPG under Stotts than he did under McMillan. Lillard is young and 36 MPG really isn't excessive for a player his age.
So, whether starting a thread after ONE PRESEASON game was an overreaction is up for debate, but I'm not sure if the premise that 36 - 37MPG is excessive is a valid one when most other playoff teams play their best players comparable minutes during the regular season.
BNM
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And they aren't getting any tonight. Does that even it all out?
I assume it's something as simple as getting them tuned up for reg season.
I assume it's something as simple as getting them tuned up for reg season.
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Not at all what I want. ...ever
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Hey, anybody want to talk about basketball? I tried to steer this topic back on track, but no one, including the OP seems even mildly interested.
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Then why do you respond with argument, ignoring everyone who has tried to stay on topic with you. You are steering this boat bro, if it sinks its on you.
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I talked basketball but it fell on deaf ears..happens around here sometimes. I'm glad MM is posting again. I even repped him the other day for complementing Wes...msg boards need balance and he has a right to his opinions whether I agree or not. MM I don't mean to address you in 3rd person so no offense. I don't think Stotts is overplaying the starters at all but I'm a Stotts fan, so there's that
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First off, a quibble. The Spurs do not have that much talent. They have 3 great players who are all WELL into the downside of their careers (maybe Parker isn't "well" into his). They have one really good young guy. And then they've got a bunch of journeymen and scrubs. What they have is so much coaching talent that they don't need the most talented players. But that's just a side point...
For me the number of minutes our starters play isn't as much an issue of health, but rather an issue of not preparing our bench players. We've got a lot of young guys on the bench who NEED game minutes in order to develop. If they're not getting consistent minutes throughout the season we won't have those 2-3 guys to come in off the bench and impact the Playoffs - and without that we're not going anywhere.
Aside from impacting the Playoffs, the development of the bench is important because players who are more fully developed are worth more on the trade market than those who are underdeveloped. Maybe a more fully developed CJ or Robinson would land us the "missing piece"?
And lastly, I think it's a sign of poor coaching if Stotts can't figure out how to develop and utilize players who clearly have some potential to be good role players at the least.
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Dear Coach Stotts,
What are you, a Laker lover?!? Why are you not playing our starters? You're trying to make our team lose! I hate you!
What are you, a Laker lover?!? Why are you not playing our starters? You're trying to make our team lose! I hate you!
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In Oregon, the minimum wage for working (or in this case playing a game) for 36 minutes is $5.40.
I can sell them each very nice homes here in Beautiful Central Oregon for what they were paid to play that 36 minutes.
Now THAT'S ridiculous.
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I wonder why you think that?
The concern was based on this
My point was 37 and 36 minutes respectively was too high for those two and I would hope they'd cut minutes this season slightly instead of a slight increase over last years minutes.
I don't give a shit that they played that many minutes in a preseason game, or that Aldridge played 0 in the next one. I care that he played them 37 and 36 minutes and said those were the minutes they'd likely get in the regular season, which last year would have put them both in the top 10 in minutes played.
Then for some reason everyone stared piling on
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I think this is one of those times where "Your reputation precedes you" would be an effective term.
Also, not everyone. that would be a generalization, which I believe was mentioned prior.
BACK ON TOPIC: I agree with you about the minutes. I don't want 34+ minutes averages or anywhere close... I don't expect a "Pop" like approach here, but good grief.
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