Why These 7 NBA Players Are Getting Benched in the 2024 Season

Why These 7 NBA Players Are Getting Benched in the 2024 Season

Like with with the coaching staff for you maybe emotionally was it surprising was it not surprising how did you feel about it um how does a 28-year-old in their Prime go from the second or third best player on an NBA title team to being taken out

Of the starting lineup in less than 18 months that is the reality for Andrew Wiggins and other NBA players in the 2024 season we’re going to look at a few players who had hype and excitement in previous Seasons to now seeing themselves lose minutes in the rotation

Or they’re just on the bench permanently AJ Griffin of the Atlanta Hawks has seen a big minute decrease this year he was the 16th pick of the 20122 draft and he went from getting about 20 minutes per game in his rookie year to only seeing about 10 minutes this year he’s gotten

Multiple dmps and is now away from the team last season he basically forced his way into the rotation with his three-point shooting and shot creation after not getting much playing time early on so what’s going on this year well there’s a log Jam on the perimeter in Atlanta DeAndre Hunter he’s their

Starting small forward they recently resigned him to a multi-year deal Sadi Bay is a 40% three-point shooter boan bogdanovich he’s a better scorer than AJ off the catch and off the dribble he has a tighter handle with the ball he can run pick and rolls even 37-year-old Wesley Matthews is getting rotation

Minutes over him plus Atlanta is a bottom 10 defensive team you can’t have too many lineups with AJ Griffin Trey young and sadique Bay you got a mix and match those unreliable Defenders it’s kind of crazy that AJ is 0 of 14 from the field in his last three games but I

Wouldn’t worry too much he just turned 20 years old and is still developing his game on offense there’s a lot of confusing things going on with the Lakers but Ru hamir’s minutes is one of them now ruy isn’t getting benched with the Lakers he’s still getting playing

Time but it’s not consistent and you never know when he’ll go on entire quarter without playing ruy will go from barely playing against Indiana in the tournament finale then he’ll get 30 minutes against Dallas then against the Knicks he plays 17 minutes and goes long stretches without

Even touching the court and he only started against Minnesota because LeBron was out there’s four issues I see with ruie and the Lakers number one him and LeBron basically play the same position on defense there’s going to be defensive issues against the good teams LeBron’s one of my favorite players to watch but

He does not want to move out of the corner on defense especially early in the game ru defense he’s too slow footed to guard threes and not someone you want chasing around screens either number two ruy has to compete with a bunch of role players who do one or two things better

Than him the thing about the Lakers role players is they’re pretty good at one thing but either terrible or below average at everything else yeah maybe tan Prince gets too many minutes here and there but he has to play because he’s their second best shooter on the wing number three darham doesn’t really

Know what to do with ruy I’ve no idea why he plays ruy at Center at random points of the game and number four ruy has a bad case of tunnel vision after he takes a couple of dribbles he’s going to shoot and he’s going to miss guys that

Are open he had a couple of horrible shots in that Chicago game add all of that up and you have an obvious trade piece for next month I know he could probably be used better but if ruy could just guard small forwards while LeBron guarded the corner he’d have a more

Defined role bones Highland went from seeing 20 minutes a game as a back point guard on the Denver Nuggets a year ago to not seeing the floor at all on the LA Clippers what happened 2 weeks after the James Harden trade in November a report came out that bones Highland would be

Removed from the rotation he went on Twitter to say that’s not true but it’s been pretty much correct since that day I know he’s dealing with a right knee issue but outside of garbage time minutes here and there he has not played much I’m not sure where bones thought he

Was going to fit in the rotation and overtake James Harden Russell Westbrook Terence man and Norman pal in the rotation those are the guards and Paul George sometimes slides up to the two when the Clippers want more size on the perimeter they’re just isn’t a spot for

Him in the rotation unless there’s an injury or someone is playing awful now he’s a decent three-point shooter but he’s barely 170 lbs so you can out physical him he can only guard one position he doesn’t provide anything the Clippers need since they got Westbrook and Harden at the moment they don’t need

A heat check guard Off the Bench they have plenty of guys that can take shots I would not be surprised if bones is a trade piece eventually Donovan Mitchell and Davon Mitchell going head tohe these two guys friends off the floor off nice Davon Mitchell was the Sacramento

Kings’s first round pick in the 2021 draft they took him with the ninth pick after a head-to-head match up with Davon Donovan Mitchell said his defense is as advertised he was the best defensive player on the Kings if you remember that Warriors Kings playoff series The Warriors won but there were times where

Steph Curry had issues creating space from Davon but going into the year 2024 Davon Mitchell is basically an afterthought in the king’s rotation for most of the Season he’s been losing minutes to Keon Ellis a guy on a two-way contract davon’s only been getting minutes here and there because of

Injuries What are davon’s problems it’s on offense he’s not really a playmaker for his teammates he’s a below the rim finisher and can’t finish his layups over length a way to get around the fact that you are a small guard in the NBA is having a floater or a scoop shot but

Davon doesn’t have that great of a touch with either hand around the rim and not only does he have problems finishing at The Rim he’s shooting below 30% from the three-point line this year you just are not getting on the floor much as a small guard if you can’t make threes or finish

At The Rim especially on a team like the Sacramento Kings a team that’s trying to win with their offense and get up a bunch of Threes I’m not sure what the Kings do with him because he has no real trade value right now so they just have

To hope he can start making his shots again and get back to what he was 2 years ago the alexe pushi experiment OKC is over you can see right here from his minutes per game he was basically a 20 minute per game player for 3 years in a

Row he was a starter played in closing lineups but this season he can’t get on the court unless it’s garbage time so why is he out of the lineup there are two things I can point out number one the OKC rebuild is over and there’s not much time for development minutes number

Two Chad holgren basically took poku spot as the 7ot Unicorn the Thunder are trying to win and win playoff rounds and when you have a team trying to win the only thing that matters from a roster construction standpoint is how do we get players that fit around our core two or

Three players their core is Chad holgren Shay and Jaylen Williams how do you make them better poku does not make them better if you remember the hype around poku everyone was excited about him because he’s the 7ot skinny guy guy who can play from the perimeter he can be a

Playmaker OKC moved up to get him in the draft and if he turned out to be good you can mix and match a bunch of different lineups because of his versatility and he was somewhat productive before an injury sidelined him for the second half of the Season

There was still excitement around him I remember people saying last fall oh hey I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s Untouchable in OKC going forward you can look at this old tweet from a guy who covers the team for the athletic he said poku is Untouchable with names like SGA

And Chad combined that injury he had with OKC getting better there’s not going to be much playing time for him he’s still a project player I never thought he was that good it felt like a meme that people tried to will into existence you can’t be 7 feet tall and

That unreliable as a finisher and expect to get minutes he just can’t impose his will at The Rim like you want him to I do wonder if another team will sign him because his contract in OKC ends after this season bullbull is still getting contracts so I don’t see why poku can’t

Get one he did have moments but nothing sustainable let’s talk about another Oklahoma City Thunder player losing minutes Josh giddy if you’ve been watching these OKC games you’re seeing giddy get subbed out at random times with the starters the game where Shay hit a gamewinner on Denver giddy got

Subbed out in the middle of the second quarter and for most of the fourth quarter even though he starts the game OKC is slowly dropping his minutes but it’s not enough he’s been a negative player on both ends of the floor all year they leave him open in the corner

He’s getting treated like a cone on defense I watched Michael Porter Jr slide past him multiple times with the ball he’s 6’8 without a strong finishing move at the basket that push shot below the free throw line that’s like a signature shot at the rim and the worst

Part is a lot of his minutes are with Shay gildas Alexander who could be the MVP and you want Shay out there with as much space as possible because he likes to operate in those tight spaces where he gets to the free throw line the fact

That OKC is this good with giddy being a bad Defender and and non-shooter speaks to the other four guys in OKC’s main lineup he’s going to ruin them in one of these playoff games in about 5 months Jaden Ivy has had a strange sophomore season with the Detroit Pistons he was a

Starter in 73 out of 74 games last year but in this season he’s already come off the bench 16 times what is going on in Detroit it’s been reported that Ivy didn’t have any conversation with head coach Monty Williams about coming off the bench now look I don’t think that

There’s anything wrong in principle with benching young guys or taking away their minutes eme udoka will take away minutes from alperin sangun and Jaylen green when they’re playing horrible the big thing long term with Jaden is okay you’re really good at converting layups but let’s tighten your handle up a bit

So you can get to the basket more when he gets that space he can score but there are way too many times where the ball just kind of slips out of his hands and it’s at his chest that’s what it looks like when I dribble a basketball

Too long with my left hand you can easily point to Jaden’s three point percentage off the catch and off the dribble dropping but I don’t like how Monty has handled this situation he’s in his second year he still has a lot of Promise because he had a really nice

Second half of his rookie year but my guess is he’s going to be used as a trade piece appreciate it if you made it to the end of this one my next one will probably be about people who were on the bench last year and they’re getting starting minutes today you

Why These Hyped NBA Players Are Seeing the Bench in 2023-24 Season

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