my point in making the thread was because i don't want the young guys to gain bad habits playing with those guys.i thought that was pretty clear from my first post.i guess not.
and my thread was a fail.smh.
You have a good idea if our team was actually decent.
We have no one and if we played the veterans all season we would win 10 games max this year.
And you can't have any development if you don't play the guys and waste a year.
If your saying just have a veteran lineup and a rookie lineup, then you have a problem. Rookies make veterans better as much as veterans make rookies better.You have to mix it up.
How can Al Harrington's chucking influence Toney Douglas to chuck? Toney can make the outside shot consistently and has offensive game so I'm not worried if he grows a pair of nuts and starts shooting. Toney is a smart player and knows, unlike Al, if the outside shot is not working to drive to the basket or find the open man.
How can Lee's crappy defense influence Hill to play poor defense? It can't. Hill and Douglas won't be negatively affected by playing with veterans.
It's the coaches responsibility to make a player play to his good habits. Make a player do what he does best on the floor. It's the coach with the influence more than any player unless it is an allstar caliber leader like Lebron or Kobe
I said this thread was a fail because with our current situation as a 3-14 team, this makes no sense. We need development right now.