Has nothing to do with his will to win, has everything to do with his slight frame and how we've seen teams faze him by roughing him up in the regular season.

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Posted by Pels_Yaz

Member since Apr 2023

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Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:22 pm to Broski

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Has nothing to do with his will to win, has everything to do with his slight frame and how we've seen teams faze him by roughing him up in the regular season.

I agree and understand your point but from what I heard from a lot of the posters here is the playoffs are in a way to develop some of these young guys. Im not saying Hawkins will be successful(he might or might not) but even giving him a couple minutes of playoff basketball and see how he does could help him. And if he hits a couple shots- it really helps our offense. We’re having scoring issues and we know he has the ability to score.

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Posted by TeddyPadillac

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Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:30 pm to Broski

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Has nothing to do with his will to win, has everything to do with his slight frame and how we've seen teams faze him by roughing him up in the regular season.

He's 5 lbs lighter than SGA. I'll think he'll be alright.

He's more than 20lbs bigger than Isiah Joe, and he's out there playing.
Even Philly gave Joe a few minutes in the playoffs as a rookie and 2nd year guy that was only getting 10mpg during the season. And this was the 49th pick in the draft.

He needs the experience of whats it's like so he knows how to prepare for it the future.
And Hawkins is fearless, and that's the kind of guy I want out there. We challenged PHX 2 years ago b/c Jose and Trey and Naji were fearless out there. We need more of that, and we have it with several guys.

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