Hassel is not an NBA level player at this point. They'd be better off with Ager out there. And Hayes can play the 2 as well as Hassel can, that's for sure. Hassel should not see the floor. Do you actually watch this guy try and play? He shot 36% percent last year and had one of the lowest PERs in the league. A 2 guard needs to provide an outside threat, or some threat to take it to the rim or he's useless. Hassel provides nothing on the offensive end.
Hayes is more of a SG than Hassell is. Najera won't be any worse at SF than Hassell is. And that leaves Anderson getting minutes at PF like he should have last against the Heat and the Pacers. Hassell should be on the bench, not Anderson. Dooling Hayes Najera Anderson Lopez
Frank has got a rule: Whoever plays harder in practice will get the minutes. If he doesn't do that whats to keep the other 7 or 8 players giving it all their best in practice? Ryan Anderson is a good player who is only going to get better. But he's played some big minutes lately and maybe he's tired?, Maybe he's not giving his all in practice, maybe he's hit some sort of mini rookie wall in his development. Whatever its tempory. The coaches see this cause they are with the player a whole lot more than when you see them. The coach maybe saw he hit a tempory plateau in his development and give him time to watch. Why should Haskell or Ager try in practice unless they know it will lead to something. This is the proper way to coach.
I'll give him a couple more games(hell at least he didn't chuck a bunch of ill-advised threes last night), but thus far Najera's jersey should read: "liability" or "done". He has sucked big time... I want more Anderson.
sure they should, but its easy after a while if your not in the rotation to just go thru the motions in practice. Same plays over and over against the starters. Under franks system if a player like ryan who is young will have some lulls in their game, you have a chance to take his minutes by out playing him in practice. Also, in preseason the nets had some injuries where some of the vets didn't get to play as much. So the rookies got to play more in the first few games. Now the vets are back and frank wants to evaluate them while the younger players get to review and learn from their mistakes. There is nothing wrong in my estimation what frank is doing, what he's doing is correct for a good coach.
