That’s because he plays for the Hawks.
I expect Bojan to start based on his production last year and his value at the trade deadline
I think Ausar shifts up to the 2 and Bojan plays the 3. On defense they’ll have him guard the worst offensive player most likely.
I’m personally not impressed with Killian, yes he’s a solid defender and passer, but that’s just not enough to be a starter if your goal is to be a serious team.
He makes a key defensemive plays early in the game yesterday that led to immediate transition scores for our team and knocks down an early 3. That’s how you want to start your games. Did the same in the end of the game too.
He does his job well of being a role player in the starting 5 suring up the defense and maintaining ball movement. He didn’t score often but as you can see clear as day, when you don’t have any weak links in defense And ball movement you don’t need every player making multiple buckets in the night.
Starters set the tone and back ups help to maintain it. You say what he’s doing isn’t enough but Coach himself seems to disagree
He’s a pure negative defender and probably won’t have the pegs under him to run the floor with the young guys.
Our starting 5 doesn’t have any weak links. Plug Bogs in and you theoretically get better scoring wise but you Definitely become worse defense wise.
It just wouldn’t make sense.
I’ve been feeling like the Bojan/Morris injuries are being overplayed in order to give the young guys a stretch to prove they deserve minutes, and give Monty time to see what he’s got. The starting lineup has looked great on defense, but I’m sure we’ll have some ugly looking games where no ones shot is falling
I agree with you that Bojan won’t start, don’t see how you can take Ausar out so it’ll probably be Killian not starting if anyone. I do want to see Morris starting to give Cade an actual shooting threat. Hopefully Ivey just shows he can defend and we roll with Ivey/Cade/Ausar/Stew/Duren
This feels like it was going to be Killian’s last month to prove he deserves playing time, and I think he’s earning it so far. After the last couple of years, it’s nice we have real competition for playing time where an NBA caliber player will not play. Our DNPs will start looking like Sasser, Livers, Harris, Wiseman, which could’ve been a starting lineup last year