re: How good can Nikola Mirotic be?

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Apparently, you are having a hard time with the word "regularity".

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Not at all. If 1 out of every 4 games is a sealed affair by the point in the 4th quarter(very reasonable for a good team) they get 25% less 4th quarter minutes. That's huge.

It is by no means insignificant. It doesn't have a huge effect on total game averages except for extremely good teams(Warriors) because it can be distributed out over 4 quarters. Not that big of a percentage change. But typical minutes for a starter is the entire 3rd quarter(or most of it), sit the first 3-6 minutes of the 4th, and come in. So when you only play the last 6-9 minutes of the 4th even in close games, that's a big deal when every few games you get sat for the last half of the 4th. It is far from insignificant.