With our guard play so far this season, anyone who thinks Murray would have earned any more playing time than Jaylen is kidding themselves.
Of the 3-8 guys, the only ones I didn't want want were Hield and Chriss, but most of those guys playing on bad teams are going to look better than Jaylen this season. It's very hard for a one-and-done to come in and get good minutes on a contending team. 18 months ago these guys were playing against high schoolers, and now they're in the NBA. To have the added difficulty of being on a team that can't afford too many in-game mistakes means limited minutes.
I like how Stevens is using Jaylen at this point. He brings him in at the end of the first quarter and beginning of the second quarter when most teams primarily have backups in, which gives him some minutes in when the game is competitive, but is not such a long stretch that any mistakes he makes would likely cost the team the game. And then in the second half maybe he gets another stretch depending on game flow.
Jaylen is a smart, hard-working kid. As the season progresses, I expect he'll find more minutes. Come March I think he'll be averaging 13-18 minutes a game. I liked a play he made yesterday on offense -- he missed an open 3 in the corner, but it was the right shot to take. He knew he had missed it from the release, and instead of watching it, followed the shot, got the rebound, and calmly kicked it out to Olynyk, who made the open 3. It was the type of play that showed the game is slowing down for him a little -- three weeks ago I bet he'd have tried to make a contested 12-footer off that rebound instead of finding the open man.