Pressey should be starting at point guard. I don't care if he's a rookie. This team is not going anywhere anyway. Play him!
What if you play him, he plays poorly, loses his confidence and he never gains it back? Then, because you have rushed a player that wasn't ready yet, you may have destroyed what could have been a good asset going forward.
Make players earn playing time. You don't just give them playing time. Giving players time they haven't earned or aren't ready for yet is the best way for a coach to destroy a player and lose the respect of the other players in the locker room.
One more thing, you talk of destroying Pressey's confidence. But what about AB? Where do you think his confidence is right now? He's a young guy being put in position he can't possibly excel at.
AB is a vet with a ton of experience. He understands the situation. You are going to kill the confidence of a 3+ year NBA veteran that is used to playing big NBA minutes.
That's patently and demonstratively false. Sports is riddled with players who have had their confidence crushed and have never been able to recover. See Greg Zahn, Chuck Knoblauch, Rick Aniel and Chuck Hayes among others.
Thanks for those fabulous examples that demonstrate that I am right only 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time.
Zahn, was a guy that didn't start as a player until he was 33 and was on steroids. Knoblauch was a player with the worst case of the yips in MLB history. Ankiel is possibly the biggest head case problem in MLB in the last 25 years and Hayes(not sure why he is even on this list).
The chances of leaving experienced pros in games when they are struggling will crush their confidence and render them useless so often the C's need to bench AB for an unproven, undersized, undrafted rookie because they have to worry about Bradley's confidence after 3 games.
Right. You should email that to Danny Ainge. He probably needs a good laugh.
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