weepinwillow
the nba: it's faaantastic
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Cedi probably would have gotten more minutes anyway if it wasn't his first game back from injury.I'd rather Okoro eat up minutes as a second year player for the sake of hopeful development than worry about using those minutes solely to win games.
I understand that the record has some folks antsy, but I'm not about putting the cart before the horse in terms of this team's overall trajectory. Okoro is much more important to that than stretching Cedi's role or letting Windler, whose skills are what they are, hit a few more shots.
Okoro was fine. As a 5th starter he's going to normally get 8-12 points, yesterday he was 2 off that.
Markkanan was on Mitchell to start, and they wouldn't bother screening, letting Donovan go one on one. Nearly every time Okoro drew Mitchell the Jazz looked to screen to get Isaac off of him or to force the double to get the open 3.He was torching Okoro in the first quarter. Garland probably did the best job slowing him down.
Rubio was out there at the end of the game w/Garland (final 5 minutes). Cedi and Okoro were part of the group that brought the game back in the 4th by tightening up the defense and getting opportunistic buckets and consistently helping the Cavs be in position to close out a victory vs a very good NBA team.Having Okoro out there instead of Cedi at the end of the game after how Cedi played (and really after how he's played all season) is such an indictment on JBB's blind favoritism for Okoro and perhaps the organization's obsession with developing Okoro and playing him more minutes than he deserves that's consistently hurting this team's chances of winning games.