I'll day it a million times. Sully was known not to be part of the future as soon as he came in fat once again. He earned nothing. Coach played him to improve his own coaching record. Selfish.
I like when my team wins. As Herm Edwards famously said "you play to win the game!"
Developing players is a great concept, but in reality most of these guys that "should have been given more playing time" will end up being JAG's or nobody's. Brad Stevens is a great coach and we are very lucky to have him in Boston. Call me crazy but I enjoy watching actual wins over seeing kids get minutes spoon-fed to them so they can maybe, potentially "develop."
Exactly, TP.
If the young guys had deserved minutes, they would have gotten them. People are viewing it as "Hey Brad hates these young guys and loves vets so he plays the vets instead" when they should be viewing it as "Wow, if Mickey can't get minutes over Zeller then maybe I've been thinking too highly of him"
Mickey, Rozier, and Hunter could all turn out to be serviceable, maybe even good, players. But right now they're not, and setting a team philosophy of "You don't have to play hard/well to get minutes, you just have to be young" is a horrible way to develop players