He's still the mystery man. He'll first have to leapfrog Brad, Carsen, Semi and Javonte. Don't believe that will happen soon.
For now, just staying off the injured list will be an accomplishment. Wish him luck!
I’m not so sure, he plays a different position from Brad, so I don’t see that as an issue.
Wanamaker always plays with Walker, Edwards, or Smart - and frequently with two of them; so that cuts into potential wing minutes. Alleyoopster didn’t mention Smart, but he’s also in front of any potential Romeo minutes - and like Wanamaker and Edwards, he’s always on the court with one or more of the other three.
Carsen has been struggling ...
True, but the staff have good reasons for him to grow through it, so they’ve kept getting him minutes.
I don't know about them keep giving him minutes though because IIRC they have only played carsen in garbage time the last two games.
Up until the Spurs game he had a regular rotation spot for roughly the first half of the second quarter, and another more flexible spot at the beginning of the fourth. In the Spurs game it was only after the game was already decided.
Btw, you may remember what Don Nelson once said: there’s no such thing as ‘garbage time’ in the NBA. I bet he got that from Red.
Could be that he’ll have reduced minutes for a while, but it’s a good bet that the rotation experiments will continue for a couple of months.
Carsen has a role available for him, the Terry Rozier eighth-man role of raising the tempo and getting shots off the dribble. It looks like he could do that with better shooting than Terry, so it wouldn’t be surprising if he keeps finding his way into games.
I get the point about garbage time, it's a chance to show something to the coaches so players can't waste it.
My point was very much btw. I was explaining why I wasn’t using the term - nothing to do with Carsen’s minutes.
You have a point, but Don Nelson was saying that you are always building a team; always you have to have team play. A more recent expression that encapsulates that is ‘playing the right way’.
The only reason Carsen was ahead of him on the depth chart was his hot shooting in preseason and Romeo's injuries. Romeo is healthy now and Carsen isn't hitting his shots, it would not surprise me if Romeo got a chance to overtake him.
Not sure why you are singling out Carsen. His minutes do affect available wing minutes, but indirectly - Romeo will guard bigger players, and their offensive games are different. Last night they put Carsen in again in his same first half of the 2nd quarter spot - it’ll be interesting to see when they put Romeo in, since usually Edwards is on the court with Brown and Tatum, and it’s unlikely that Romeo and Jaylen are paired together at this stage.
More direct competition for Romeo is from Wanamaker, Smart, and Brown - all of whom got a minutes bump in the Dallas game. In fact the best indicator that Langford has minutes potential in the next game is the fact that Brown got 38 last night. Langford’s game is most like Brown’s, and 38 is unlikely as a steady diet. But it’s more likely that he comes in in the first quarter when Brown goes out.
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