When I said he played a lot early, I wasn’t referring to his minutes, more than he got a chance to play early. After the first two games he played in the next 8 games, and proved to be a huge liability on defense. Coach Quin even said it himself, if you can’t play defense, you won’t play. It’s not like He has a track record of not playing. Exum played 82 games and started every game after allstar break. O’Neale was in the rotation after the first 20 or so games. Hood played a lot, and Mitchell last year. It didn’t take long before Mitchell replaced Hood. I’d say Quin has a track record for giving rookies at least a shot to prove they can play. Compare him to Corbin.
Can’t spin this, you’re wrong. Defensive issues or not, playing 2-3 min and then getting yanked before getting another 2-4 minutes of garbage time sprinkled in with multiple DNPs is not being given a ton of time or opportunity to do anything.