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What to do with Taylor Hendricks year one

fishonjazz said:
Last season we had rudy gay who was obviously not going to be around for long, was often checked out, washed up, having a career worst shooting efficiency and was never gonna fetch anything in a trade so young dudes should get those minutes imo.
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Sarcasm?
 
One Brow said:
Sarcasm?
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Why would you think that? He is old and washed. His efficiency is atrocious. I said he wouldn't be around for long (not on the roster) and wouldn't fetch much in a trade
Which thing is inaccurate?
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
100% this is where we are headed. Hardy is better than Corbin and we have a better young nucleus... but there will be many tears over vet playing time.
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Yeah Hardy has said in interviews many times that rookies specifically have to earn their minutes. But I dont think he is gonna be too rigid with that, up to the point where he wouldn't play a rookie who is better than a vet he competes with.

I think he understands that there is a balance in player development that you need to find. You cannot put too much or too little on one players plate at a time, or he will either develop bad habits or progress slower than he should. Kessler was a good example of how Hardy operates with a promising rookie vs an established vet.

Kessler had to work half the season with low minutes to prove he should start over KO/Vando who were the two getting all the early season starts at the 5. But he didn't stay behind them the entire year, as some other more conservative coach might have done.
 
fishonjazz said:
Why would you think that? He is old and washed. His efficiency is atrocious. I said he wouldn't be around for long (not on the roster) and wouldn't fetch much in a trade
Which thing is inaccurate?
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He fetched Collins in a trade. That seems to be a pretty good return.
 
Not gonna lie.... From the lazy and information-starved spot on my couch, I want to be able to watch the games and feeeeeel that the organization has its eye on at least a 2-3 year developmental arc, rather than trying to maximize in the short-term. And if George and Hendricks aren't getting regular burn, then it'll be harder to feel that, not easier.

I fully understand how easily all these feelings from my couch slip into simple delusions, but it doesn't feel deluded to say that this team should come more into its power not next year, but the year after + the year after that, and it's that that we should be aiming for, and then adjusting to.

I really hope we don't repeat the Conley story: pushing in too early.
 
One Brow said:
He fetched Collins in a trade. That seems to be a pretty good return.
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lol.
Ya they wanted him so so badly that they immediately waived him. Spoiler alert, he wasn't the reason that the hawks wanted to do the trade. But ya, i guess you found the one tiny little nit to pick at in my post. You win this round.
 
It was a good decision to keep Rudy Gay for as long as the Jazz did. They could have waived or stretched him last off-season and that would have been a popular decision among a lot of people on this board. His play didnt get us John Collins, but having a manageable one year salary that owners arent irate about cutting was a valuable thing to have.
 
Gay was a tax not a benefit in that trade lol.
 
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