No, he's me (and Hopper), probably, according to write4u. But he's not YB85.
Deron improve as a PG even while spending most of his minutes as a SG, but Fesenko can't improve as a center unless he plays center on the floor. No wonder Sloan doesn't treat him equally.
There is still a huge difference between the rate of development at a different position than there is at the rate of development of sitting on the bench. You can still develop shooting, defense, rebounding, even assists. By this point, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you would make such an argument, but the amazement continues.
Had he been in better shape, he would have gotten more minutes.
"Shape" (conditioning) was not a limiting factor at the number of minutes that Fesenko was playing, and Fesenko showed in the playoffs that he was capable of playing more minutes conditioningwise, and that wasn't the first time that he had done that during last season. He proved it in a back-to-back in February--and I use this example because I have a citation, something that you rarely provide--which, in this case was a 9-point, 6-RB performance that came on the heels of 15 minutes in a game night before, in which he went 8 and 6.
https://www.nba.com/games/20100221/UTAPOR/gameinfo.html#nbaGIboxscore
https://www.nba.com/games/20100222/ATLUTA/gameinfo.html#nbaGIboxscore
The article also cites a fellow player saying that Fesenko "has been working hard all year" which really flies in the face of the lack-of-work-ethic ("jackpotting") claims that you have been spewing.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article...t-spot-in-Utah-Jazz-loss-to-Atlanta.html?pg=2
It also is consistent with Sloan's statements during last season of his intention to get Fesenko more minutes
Any coach who focused on making his team better overall optimally is going to find a way to get players who are making strides on the court (and play a crucial position) is going to keep finding minutes. There was PT to be redistributed without risking the outcome of the game.
I should hpe Sloan treat players unequally, as they have unequal levels of talent and discipline.
Don't be silly with semantics. "Equally" doesn't mean giving them all of them the same minutes; it means giving them minutes according to their on-court performance.
It was Fesenko's job to be in shape enough to warrant minutes.
Addressed above. Also, it is Sloan's job to make sure that the team has enough on-court experience (based on the constraints of court time) to be able to play when injuries or other situations call for it. Sloan failed to do so, even though it had been clear for years that the center spot was weak (confirmed repeatedly by KOC), and when Okur went down, Fesenko was able to make a similar contribution that Okur did (when taking into account Okur's typical offensive production minus his damaging defensive production) but did not have the experience to do significantly better, as evidenced that his deficiencies on the court were directly related to on-court experience (fouling too much, too many turnovers, not being able to implement scoring moves (against the eventual world champions, btw), etc.). We've been through this. Fes bears some of the responsibility for not getting minutes due to not being more focused and better conditioned (even though this didn't stop other players (Okur) from playing significant minutes in the past, but Sloan bears some of the responsibility also, especially given that he had stated publicly that he wanted to find Fes more floor time.
