Clarkson is Here to Stay

[HermanG]

Those guys only played after we pulled the plug on the season.

Yeah development minutes and all.

I think the fact that we have 3 rookies and 3 second year guys competing for minutes the starting rotation is bound to include better net positive guys than what we fielded in those end of season lineups.

+ Juzang and Eubanks trying hard to prove they belong.

 

[jazznik]

Those guys only played after we pulled the plug on the season.

That is absolutely not true. Keyonte and Agbaji played big minutes way before we pulled the plug. Here is their stat line from No.29: Keyonte - 24 min, Agbaji - 21 min .
December 8: Keyonte - 28 min, Agbaji - 17, Hendriks -12 (Hendriks averaged 17mpg in December and he was awful).
December 28 - Keyonte and Agbaji played 38 minutes combined, 1-9 shooting, the Jazz lost by 7 points etc.

 

[Ron Mexico]

That is absolutely not true. Keyonte and Agbaji played big minutes way before we pulled the plug. Here is their stat line from No.29: Keyonte - 24 min, Agbaji - 21 min .
December 8: Keyonte - 28 min, Agbaji - 17, Hendriks -12 (Hendriks averaged 17mpg in December and he was awful).
December 28 - Keyonte and Agbaji played 38 minutes combined, 1-9 shooting, the Jazz lost by 7 points etc.

True, Agbaji did get minutes early and Keyonte ramped up pretty quick after the first month. Hendricks hardly played until late February.

Yet Clarkson still tied for worst defensive rating with Keyonte on the team. He was 2nd worst bpm behind Brice. There are plenty of other bad stats. He was really really bad last season and played a huge role especially the first half of the season. At around the end of December he was bottom 4 in win shares in the entire NBA, right next to Scoot and Poole. He was really bad and easily the biggest reason we were losing at that point in the season. His role was changed after that and the young guys picked up playing more.