Because it's a much more Sensabaugh approach to give playing and developmental time to your freshman forward that you drafted 9th than your freshman forward you drafted 28th when both guys were born less than one month apart. I mean, why should we be penciling either of these guys in for minutes above the next guy homeytennis makes a thread about?
For the same reasons you picked him 20 spots higher in the draft.
If Sensabaugh is healthy then I have a feeling he is going to be a Hardy favorite. Every coach loves shooters and he is elite in that department. I do have a lot of confidence though that Hendricks will be a very good outside shooter as well.
Sounds Sensabough enough. I gave you a neutral emoji because there isn't a golf clap emoji for the dad joke.
Because, currently he is the better player? I mean they just had this big voting thing with the entire NBA that established that.
I do think there's a reality here, and to what degree it applies with Hardy I know not, where the "expert" is offended by the lay consensus on something and they go out of their way to try to prove lay perspectives wrong and will double and triple down going against things that appear obvious. Jerry, for instance, always felt more comfortable playing second round guys. There's a lot you can argue that the second round guys may have been upper classmen or knew they had to work to compensate for hype, but there was an idea that Jerry didn't play young guys, which was false. Deron was clearly better than the two dunces playing in front of him. Paul Millsap didn't struggle getting pretty good minutes (for his draft position) when he had Memo and Boozer (and Collins and Harpring and Kirilenko) in front of him in the front court. I believe that was an accelerant in Quin's mind of his distaste for Butler. So, even though we chide Cy for that ridiculous-*** take, I do believe this becomes a perception of "questioning authority" where one may respond with, "well, why in the **** not?" to counter what they perceive as being a "given" from lay people.
Hardy doesn’t strike me as the contrarian, intellectual, that likes the smell of his own farts… like Quin was at times. If Sensabaugh gets those minutes over Taylor it’s because he’s awesome… which is a great problem to have. I think we are safe penciling in Taylor over Sensabaugh in the pecking order… it’s in pencil anyway… no one is taking out the sharpie just yet. Taylor’s game should translate well to getting spot minutes early in his rookie year but sometimes things don’t translate like you want. In any case I think it’s easy to project that we would need more of what Taylor provides than what Brice can.I do think there's a reality here, and to what degree it applies with Hardy I know not, where the "expert" is offended by the lay consensus on something and they go out of their way to try to prove lay perspectives wrong and will double and triple down going against things that appear obvious. Jerry, for instance, always felt more comfortable playing second round guys. There's a lot you can argue that the second round guys may have been upper classmen or knew they had to work to compensate for hype, but there was an idea that Jerry didn't play young guys, which was false. Deron was clearly better than the two dunces playing in front of him. Paul Millsap didn't struggle getting pretty good minutes (for his draft position) when he had Memo and Boozer (and Collins and Harpring and Kirilenko) in front of him in the front court. I believe that was an accelerant in Quin's mind of his distaste for Butler. So, even though we chide Cy for that ridiculous-*** take, I do believe this becomes a perception of "questioning authority" where one may respond with, "well, why in the **** not?" to counter what they perceive as being a "given" from lay people.
Tl;dr there's a conceivable scenario where we get Hendricks in the G League and see Sensabaugh minutes and get rationalizations about practice or "he's tearing up the G League and fine where he is" or any one of a thousand different iterations of "hey, it's really rational that the guy you drafted 20 spots higher isn't playing... it's all part of the plan."
