Hornets player development coach Nick Friedman has been tasked with improving the on-court performances of young players like Caleb Martin and Jalen McDaniels, who spend time with both the Hornets and their G League affiliate, the Greensboro Swarm, The Charlotte Observer’s Rick Bonnell reports. Friedman operates as a liaison for Hornets head coach James Borrego.
Player development via the G League worked wonders in the 2018/19 season for Devonte’ Graham (who spent 13 games in Greensboro) and Dwayne Bacon (17 games). Graham is enjoying a breakout sophomore season in Charlotte, averaging 19.0 PPG and 7.9 APG for the 15-23 Hornets, who are just two games out of the No. 8 seed in the East.
There’s more out of the Southeast Division:
- 42-year-old Hawks wing Vince Carter became the first NBA player to suit up for teams in four different decades when he stepped onto the hardwood for Atlanta’s 116-111 defeat of the Pacers, Tory Barron of ESPN writes. The eight-time All-Star, who is playing in his record-setting 22nd season, notched a +7 plus-minus rating in 18 minutes. Barron notes that 36 NBA players who have logged one minute or more in a game this season were born after Carter’s league debut on February 5th, 1999.
- Following injuries to versatile forwards Jonathan Isaac and Al-Farouq Aminu, the Magic are considering filling their vacant 15th roster spot, according to The Athletic’s Josh Robbins (Twitter link).
- Although several injuries have required 11-24 Wizards to adjust their bench, it has remained among the league’s best, as Candace Buckner of The Washington Post reports. The Wizards’ bench has averaged 70 points per contest in their last five games, 14.4 PPG clear of the next-most prolific bench over the same period, the Pistons. The bench scored 92 points against the Nuggets and 80 points against the Heat, the two highest second unit marks in franchise history. “No matter who we’re plugging in, that’s the way we want to play,” backup guard Ish Smith observed.
I wonder if Vince trains with Jagr.
Idk how counting decades works i guess. I thought the new one started in 2021 and ran thru 2030.
So you think 1990 is part of the 80’s?
Your idea is the most accepted and what I go by, but if you think of it starting with year 1, it doesn’t fit. Hence the other viewpoint.
Year 1 –> 10 years –> means Year 10 is in that first decade and not the second.
Well no. Think of time as a number line. 0-9, 10-19, 20-29 and so on
Yes, but you think there was year “0”?
Year names are integers not real numbers, and were organized for convenience not for math. There’s no decimals. There was never a zero point, the names being integers.
Any group of ten years is a decade. That said, named decades are considered to have the same tens’ digit for all years included. That works even if you go from the beginning of the common era because year 1 would actually be ’01.’ Vince has now played in the 1990’s, the 2000’s, the 2010’s, and the 2020’s.
Actually, I’m mistaken if you go from the beginning since there was no year zero or ’00,’ but it is correct that conventional wisdom includes years that share a tens’ digit in the same decade.
IDK either, but I have always considered the first year of the decade (eg. 2020) as the new decade.
That said, it’s a moot point, you know VC is going to play until 2031, which either is the 1st or 2nd year of the 5th decade!
The Wizards are breaking records for points off the bench and no explanation really works. The cast is always changing and includes many types of players.
“We’ve been trying to figure that out, Coach Scott Brooks said…”
Ish Smith is probably right, but still, why?
I think most Wiz players would rather come off the bench, which might be a first. There’s (maybe) outgoing Beal, but the only returning desirable “keeper”, Troy Brown, does best not starting; others like Manhimi will be selling themselves as backups in free agency. And so a tone is set.