The Mavs aren't quitting on a guy 40 games into his career, just because he has only played 40 here doesn't really mean much. There isn't any evidence we quit on Noel at all either. It's up to Noel to prove he is worthy of minutes. Bagley would be an 18yr old in the first year as a professional athlete. Noel has been a professional athlete for 5 years and has been in the locker room with a lot of true professionals and currently is in a locker room with plenty of them. Comparing Bagley to Noel in this case doesn't make sense to me. All we can do is deal in hypothetical scenarios since none of us know the real story yet. But if RC as been telling this kid something about not gambling on defense for a year and he has preached in practice to hustle and run back on defense. And after a year here he still isn't doing those VERY SIMPLE things... then why the hell is it on RC for not "developing" him? Hard to develop a guy who doesn't want to be developed. As others and myself have pointed out many times... what young player did we have that RC didn't develop/play that went on elsewhere and became something? Surely if he had unfair expectations asking huge tasks like- trying hard, and learning then there should be plenty of young players we dumped that became something after leaving RC.
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