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Lineups w/ Kanter or Booker

GVC said:
I'm all for starting Booker, but it's probably a bit early to make such a drastic change.
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Drastic? Changing one person in the starting lineup when there's plenty of evidence to suggest such a change? If this is drastic, then what isn't?
 
NAOS said:
Drastic? Changing one person in the starting lineup when there's plenty of evidence to suggest such a change? If this is drastic, then what isn't?
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It's a young, non-contending team. You don't change a young player's role 3 games into a season. I don't think Kanter's hurting anyone's development by starting. If he still looks like trash 10 or 15 games in, you move him to the bench to see how he can handle a smaller role. It may have been a mistake to start Kanter, but I think you have to live with for a little while longer.
 
GVC said:
It's a young, non-contending team. You don't change a young player's role 3 games into a season. I don't think Kanter's hurting anyone's development by starting. If he still looks like trash 10 or 15 games in, you move him to the bench to see how he can handle a smaller role. It may have been a mistake to start Kanter, but I think you have to live with for a little while longer.
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I see your point, but I disagree. The biggest problem in these three games has been the half-court defense. Kanter's ineptitude IS hurting a successful installation of the defense, and, by extension, hurting our players' development.

I do agree that it was a mistake to start him...... especially given our November schedule.
 
NAOS said:
Kanter's ineptitude IS hurting a successful installation of the defense, and, by extension, hurting our players' development.
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That seems fair.

NAOS said:
I do agree that it was a mistake to start him...... especially given our November schedule.
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I just don't think it would set a good precedent in the locker room if the coach is giving up on his first starting lineup after 3 games. Basketball players are human beings, and they respond to trust/confidence and clear expectations/guidelines like anyone else. I don't think you can get away with yanking Kanter from the starting lineup until ~10 games in, but that's just my opinion, and I have absolutely no experience in a competitive team sports locker room.

I kinda wish the rabid anti-Ty posters would chime in on Booker starting. I assume they recognize that it's both the sensible thing to do AND exactly what they blasted Ty for doing last season.
 
GVC said:
I just don't think it would set a good precedent in the locker room if the coach is giving up on his first starting lineup after 3 games. Basketball players are human beings, and they respond to trust/confidence and clear expectations/guidelines like anyone else. I don't think you can get away with yanking Kanter from the starting lineup until ~10 games in, but that's just my opinion, and I have absolutely no experience in a competitive team sports locker room.
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Fair points, but Quin has clearly outlined the requirements for playing time, especially effort and focus on the defensive end. If Kanter does not respond ane Quin keeps playing Kanter, what message does this give to the team? It seems that the interim step of starting Kanter and playing Booker more minutes might be a reasonable short-term answer to this conundrum.
 
GVC said:
It's a young, non-contending team. You don't change a young player's role 3 games into a season. I don't think Kanter's hurting anyone's development by starting. If he still looks like trash 10 or 15 games in, you move him to the bench to see how he can handle a smaller role. It may have been a mistake to start Kanter, but I think you have to live with for a little while longer.
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Agree, but I think we will see Booker ending the 1st half and 2nd half of games, so he will essentially be the starter. Kanter will slowly use minutes to Booker until he eventually loses his starting job.
 
GVC said:
I kinda wish the rabid anti-Ty posters would chime in on Booker starting. I assume they recognize that it's both the sensible thing to do AND exactly what they blasted Ty for doing last season.
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I disagree - for now. Three games is way too small of a sample size, especially given that Kanter is being asked to change his game to fit Quin's system. I would continue to start Kanter for at least 15 games or so. I think it equally important to have a great player off the bench and Booker gives us that.
 
Stifle Tower said:
I disagree - for now. Three games is way too small of a sample size, especially given that Kanter is being asked to change his game to fit Quin's system. I would continue to start Kanter for at least 15 games or so. I think it equally important to have a great player off the bench and Booker gives us that.
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It's also super (like extremely important) not have a player that nerfs your entire offense and defense in the starting lineup.
 
silesian said:
Fair points, but Quin has clearly outlined the requirements for playing time, especially effort and focus on the defensive end. If Kanter does not respond ane Quin keeps playing Kanter, what message does this give to the team? It seems that the interim step of starting Kanter and playing Booker more minutes might be a reasonable short-term answer to this conundrum.
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Cy said:
Agree, but I think we will see Booker ending the 1st half and 2nd half of games, so he will essentially be the starter. Kanter will slowly use minutes to Booker until he eventually loses his starting job.
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Agree with both these posts. There are clear guidelines, and Kanter is losing PT as a result of his poor defensive performance. If Booker continues to perform as he has thus far, he'll command more than the ~20 minutes he's getting, and it'll be interesting to see how Quinn allocates the remaining 4/5 minutes between Kanter, Gobert and Novak/Hayward.
 
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