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

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Is it possible that the core players (BI, Zion, JJ, Zo, Hart) lobbied to play extended minutes to start the season off as a sort of tone setter and a way to play themselves into shape?

The assumption seems to be this is an SVG/front office pushed thing but what if it's coming from the vets/young vets?

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I only personally said FO might explain the Hayes situation in a context of Willy not getting minutes(and assuming it’s not because he is trash, which is a reasonable conclusion to also draw).

But maybe they lobbied, it’s possible, though based on all the interviews I’ve seen doesn’t seem likely. There seems to be a healthy deference to coach and letting him coach. I think it’s more safe to say these are SVG’s decisions and we can speculate from there why they might be playing out this particular way?

Gun to my head I think it is because SVG has an instinctual trust of vets, but is forced due to lack of alternative talent to play Hayes big minutes, and that the reason we haven’t seen NAW or Kira despite struggling guard play is that both haven’t demonstrated enough to SVG to be a part of building our early season on-court identity/culture. And how serious that issue with either of our first round guards is we can only further speculate. Personally, NAW is the only one I’m genuinely worried with because he is a two year college player in his second season and we have an obvious need for another shooter/spark/facilitator in the guard rotation when one of our top three have difficult nights.