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What to do with Taylor Hendricks year one

There are minutes available at the 3 right away. I'd wager that Hendricks is able to play that role well enough to get those minutes very soon, if not by game one.
 
kabenac said:
We're so stacked at the 4 and 5 but this dude is legit.

Once Hendricks shows he's legit I see Olynyk getting traded; that way Hendricks and Collins can get more minutes, we get an asset and we're still solid with depth.
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He's a 3/4, though. IMO. Too light in the shorts to play 5 right now.
 
Based on the current roster this is how I would like to see the front court minutes spread out. Getting Hendricks 18 minutes a game would be a good number but with Hardy's love for vets I have a feeling he won't find more than spot minutes for him.

C- Kessler 30min, Olynyk 18min
Pf- Collins 30min, Lauri 10min, Hendricks 8min
Sf- Lauri 24min, Ochai 14min, Hendricks 10min
 
When it comes to Hendricks I am in the wait-and-see boat. I do not know enough about how ready he is to make any judgment yet. I hope to see a lot more of me during preseason and then ask me this question again. I know he has to add strength first and foremost. I would like to see him finish better after contact but that will come with added strength. He needs some more fluidity in his hips.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Why should Hendricks be pencilled in for minutes over Sensabaugh?
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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?
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
For the same reasons you picked him 20 spots higher in the draft.
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Saint Cy of JFC said:
Why should Hendricks be pencilled in for minutes over Sensabaugh?
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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.
 
infection said:
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?
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Sounds Sensabough enough. I gave you a neutral emoji because there isn't a golf clap emoji for the dad joke.
 
Hendricks at the 3 backing up Maarkanen makes good sense to me. Especially playing off of Clarkson who will handle the ball more. He can space and defend the 3 spot.
 
sip said:
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.
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Brice is a bucket but Hardy will absolutely be dry heaving at his defense. I would bet Brice spends the majority of the year in the G League... might even lead the league in scoring or some ****.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Brice is a bucket but Hardy will absolutely be dry heaving at his defense. I would bet Brice spends the majority of the year in the G League... might even lead the league in scoring or some ****.
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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.

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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."

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infection said:
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.

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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."

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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’m just not “worried” about it either way. I hope he ends up on the Kessler plan but we might be so deep in the frontcourt that he gets more like Ochai minutes. I don’t think it will be Sensabaugh that puts him on the bench though. I just don’t see it.
 
I don't think the plan this season is going to be to slot structured developmental minutes into the rotation for any of the rookies. I think we are going to try our best to compete for a playoff spot. If guys are good enough to be in the rotation, they'll play. If not, I think they'll spend some time in the G-League.
 
bigmike said:
I don't think the plan this season is going to be to slot structured developmental minutes into the rotation for any of the rookies. I think we are going to try our best to compete for a playoff spot. If guys are good enough to be in the rotation, they'll play. If not, I think they'll spend some time in the G-League.
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Sounds about right but I think they’re good enough we see them riding the pine with the A Team most nights.
 
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