Why did Willie play Herb right away but not Dyson?

Im convinced Willie would sit Victor Wenbenyama if no one gave him shite for it.

No idea brother but I bet 100 bucks as soon as we start playing him, we start winning.

He’s clearly already an NBA level defender which is something this team can clearly use

Herb was able to be integrated into the starting lineup because we had enough scoring in the starting lineup and could hide him on offense.

We don’t have that luxury with the bench mob, you have to have guys that can score with your bench units.

Dyson’s time will come, Griff told y’all in the off-season they would bring him along slowly because they have to completely rework his shot, but y’all don’t want to listen.

He is younger than Herb and we don't know what's going on in practice. He might be lost or not very consistent on offense or defense I don't know. Playing Herb and Alvarado tells me that Willie is willing to play young guys good minutes if they are ready. He's 19 and we're 12 games into his RC season, this isn't something out of the ordinary. He'll get more minutes as the season goes along, I don't doubt that. Just be patient.

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Yet he still found ways not to play Treye Murphy

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Because Trey was getting cooked on defense and was regularly missing rotations and was out of position.

You do realize 50+% of developing young players is not destroying their confidence right? If you destroy a young man’s confidence early in his career by throwing him out there and he can’t make a shot and/or can’t defend anyone, you’re never going to get him to reach his full potential.

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With Naji stepping up and earning his rotation minutes, that's probably where it affects Daniels playing time the most.

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Daniels’ play has been as good or better than Naji’s. I don’t see that Naji has stepped up. He looks like the same player to me, he’s just getting more minutes. Advanced stats are not great for him like always.

Marshall is averaging 3.8 ppg on 31% shooting his last 6 contests he was 6th man of the year before the calendar turned to November

Which lends to a bigger point.. it’s still early, let’s let things play out

I say all the reasons why I think Dyson isn't playing above but even with all that, I think you have to find a way to get him AT LEAST 10 minutes a game. Pluck a few minutes from DG, Jose, Naji, and even 2-3 minutes from CJ if you need to.

Of all the top 15 picks, Dyson is average the least amount of minutes. That is a bit ridiculous seeing as how bad we are on defense and what he could bring on that end.

I'm in the camp that DG isn't actually playing that bad, but Dyson should eat into his minutes. We can say that Willie is playing DG for trade value but I don't see that being the case, I think he just likes DG's game more right now.

So tell me who you want to sit for him.

The answer would be either DG or Naji.

and the reason why he's not playing over either is quite simple.
DG needs to keep playing so we can trade him. That's what i'm going to assume is the reason DG plays over Dyson. We brought DG to be the bench scorer and this is the first time he's been able to do that, so they are giving him his shot. If they believe in Dyson, and Kira can be ready to play soon, then i think DG will get traded in Dec/Jan and Dyson is going to play much more. And that's not a big deal for a 19 year old rookie to play sparingly in the first few games and then play a lot more in the 2nd half of the season.
I think Naji has earned his minutes. There are things that guys do that you'll never see that earn them minutes every night, and i'd bet Naji does those things, and he's done well this year on the court.