Keep breathing boys. It hurts but if we can use these 25 games to get our young guys into NBA shape, then we’ll be stronger for it later and into next season. 25 games to separate the wheat from the chaff before Ja gets back and we get into crunch time.
What young guys? Roddy, LaRavia and Lofton Jr are really the only “young guys” on this team. Everyone else is on year 3 and up. This is mostly a veteran laden team, we’re just injured as hell and without Ja. Without Ja, Adams, Clarke and Kennard we are playing guys that really shouldn’t be getting many minutes at all. Our starting 5 would probably look something like Ja, Smart, Bane, JJJ, Adams with Kennard, Clarke, Rose and Aldama making up the core of the 2nd unit. We are without 5 of our core rotation to start the season. That’s insane.
It’s still so early though. We don’t want to dig a crazy deep hole record wise but we still have 95ish% of the season to go. People are definitely overreacting to this slow start.
Keep breathing boys. It hurts but if we can use these 25 games to get our young guys into NBA shape, then we’ll be stronger for it later and into next season. 25 games to separate the wheat from the chaff before Ja gets back and we get into crunch time.
What young guys? Roddy, LaRavia and Lofton Jr are really the only “young guys” on this team. Everyone else is on year 3 and up. This is mostly a veteran laden team, we’re just injured as hell and without Ja. Without Ja, Adams, Clarke and Kennard we are playing guys that really shouldn’t be getting many minutes at all. Our starting 5 would probably look something like Ja, Smart, Bane, JJJ, Adams with Kennard, Clarke, Rose and Aldama making up the core of the 2nd unit. We are without 5 of our core rotation to start the season. That’s insane.
Roddy and GG Jackson are the young guys who I still have hopes for. Although I still consider Aldama a young guy since he was drafted in 2021.
I think LaRavia has shown he was a waste of time and Lofton seems to be in worse shape than he was last season.
It’s still so early though. We don’t want to dig a crazy deep hole record wise but we still have 95ish% of the season to go. People are definitely overreacting to this slow start.