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Jeff Green will not start
« on: December 13, 2011, 09:47:09 PM »

Offline ktw7

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Just watched Kyle Draper's interview with Jeff Green. He continually said "we" when talking about the bench, I could be wrong but it seemed like he was confirming he's not going to be a starter.

If he's coming off the bench at $9 million, I would think he plays a 6th man, Lamar Odom type role.

The only issue is he's better as a 3 than a 4 but I don't see him getting a ton of minutes just backing up PP at the 3.
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2011, 09:51:18 PM »

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Quote from: ktw7 on December 13, 2011, 09:47:09 PM
Just watched Kyle Draper's interview with Jeff Green. He continually said "we" when talking about the bench, I could be wrong but it seemed like he was confirming he's not going to be a starter.

If he's coming off the bench at $9 million, I would think he plays a 6th man, Lamar Odom type role.

The only issue is he's better as a 3 than a 4 but I don't see him getting a ton of minutes just backing up PP at the 3.
non-issue.  no one could have seriously thought he'd start over PP.
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2011, 09:56:10 PM »

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i dont think this is gonna be a surprise to anyone here.  Maybe next year?
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2011, 10:21:22 PM »

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He should get a decent amount of minutes. Especially with the back to backs every week!

You might even see him and Pierce at the same time, having PP play SG against smaller gaurds, posting them up to save energy. It be nice to see Pierce go back to the post a bit.

I have a feeling every one will be playing more minutes then they normally would off the bench because of the hecktick season.
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« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2011, 10:21:53 PM »

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Who would he start over? Im confused.
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2011, 10:22:48 PM »

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Nor should he, unless he grew about three inches and put on 50 pounds of muscle.
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2011, 10:48:20 PM »

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How is this a thread... was there ANY doubt? LOL
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2011, 10:50:45 PM »

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I seem to recall seeing several threads saying Green should start over Ray or Pierce a couple of months ago.
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2011, 10:51:59 PM »

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Quote from: Lucky17 on December 13, 2011, 10:50:45 PM
I seem to recall seeing several threads saying Green should start over Ray or Pierce a couple of months ago.
Dozens of them (over the course of the lockout).

They just kept popping up. Never went away for long.
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« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2011, 10:53:54 PM »

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Quote from: ktw7 on December 13, 2011, 09:47:09 PM
Just watched Kyle Draper's interview with Jeff Green. He continually said "we" when talking about the bench, I could be wrong but it seemed like he was confirming he's not going to be a starter.

If he's coming off the bench at $9 million, I would think he plays a 6th man, Lamar Odom type role.

The only issue is he's better as a 3 than a 4 but I don't see him getting a ton of minutes just backing up PP at the 3.

There's 13-15 minutes behind Pierce every night.  And given the quality of our back-up 2-guards, I'd imagine Doc will be looking to move Pierce up to 2 to play big with Green for the 13+ minutes Ray isn't on the floor.
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2011, 10:55:34 PM »

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I for one would love to see us start small with him at the 4 and KG at the 5. Of course, with match-up considerations.

I've always thought our best starting line-up (at least early minutes of the game) was when we had Scalabrine starting with the rest of our main starters while Perk was out with injuries.

Great energy, great floor spacing and we really took advantage of opponents early on.
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2011, 10:57:41 PM »

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Quote from: Lucky17 on December 13, 2011, 10:50:45 PM
I seem to recall seeing several threads saying Green should start over Ray or Pierce a couple of months ago.


Yes, there were people asking for/wanting it but it's hard to believe someone would think he was really going to! Over who would be the question (unless he became a center over night and JO was injured)?
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Re: Jeff Green will not start
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2011, 11:08:54 PM »

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You guys are acting like I'm an idiot....

I made this thread because we traded Kendrick Perkins for him and we're paying him $9 Million this year. To me that suggests he would play basically starter-type minutes even if he's coming off the bench.

I see no way he breaks 30 mins per game backing up PP only, therefore I'm confused how he's going to play those mins. If he doesn't play those mins, why did we give up Perkins and why are we paying him so much?
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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2011, 11:10:08 PM »

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Quote from: ktw7 on December 13, 2011, 11:08:54 PM
You guys are acting like I'm an idiot....

I made this thread because we traded Kendrick Perkins for him and we're paying him $9 Million this year. To me that suggests he would play basically starter-type minutes even if he's coming off the bench.

I see no way he breaks 30 mins per game backing up PP only, therefore I'm confused how he's going to play those mins. If he doesn't play those mins, why did we give up Perkins and why are we paying him so much?

The problem is equating salary with role on the team.
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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2011, 11:15:44 PM »

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he shouldn't start.  his role is to be a go to guy on the second unit and be put in with the starters as a role player if needed.
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