re: Of the first 34 picks in the 2020 NBA Draft.....

I’d just ignore him, you’ve offered up one of the more substantive OP’s for starting a discussion in some time and for the most part the conversation it has generated has been more interesting to read and engage in than most of the hot take nonsense, throwaway doom posts, or sunshine pumping we get in-between news stories breaking about the team.

This is actually a thread I’d like to see again in 20 games and maybe again a few times through the season because it is interesting to put into context our situation with how other teams are incorporating their rookies and test whether our assumptions today are true 20 games from now or not.

Because for instance, a lot is being made that this is probably a short term trend to establish the right court identity, and the overall trend is explained by our supposed unique circumstance, that we should expect NAW and Kira to get minutes 20-30 games from now, but what if they don’t? My guess is people will attempt to move goal posts if they are still racking up DNP’s, but if we are winning games and things look healthy, I think 20 games would make it more difficult to explain the choice as anything but performance related....If they are playing and playing well I think we can assume those assumptions were correct and can rest our heads a bit easier.