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Old 12-13-2022, 09:09 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by saclare View Post
Wait, what? Did we watch a different game??? You bring up Frank's fouls but fail to mention his individual defense overall.

Trust me, if Kidd played Hardy the way some of you wanted in that game, he would have gotten EXPOSED by SGA and even Dort. (edit: shit, I'm adding Giddey and Joe to this)

"But he needs experience" -- yea, not that kind of experience...let the kid marinate just a bit guys. I'm willing to bet had Green been available, then it's Hardy getting first crack minutes and not Frank.

I think some are just in their feelings since Frank obviously can't do what Hardy does on the offensive end and he had some bad misses on wide open corner looks. I get it, but to unsubstantially dismiss Frank's play like that just cause we all want to see Hardy? Kid would have been fed to the wolves last night.
What we are saying is Hardy IS going to get beat as a defender sometimes and we can live with it because we are growing young players in the system with our other quality players in moments that have a semblance of meaning.

Acting like it's an absolute given that we are worse off with Hardy than Frank is a long reach. Frank played hard and had a cpl good moments but the hustle play to tie up for the jump ball was the only stand out play from him that I recall.

It's bigger than one game and there is no comparison between Frank and Hardy. Some can see it that way if they choose and Kidd can justify past comments by himself, Cuban and Nico because of the huge loss in the offseason and not being able to back fill JBs role.

Reiterating the big picture as far as im concerned. This team isn't as good as last years team, and we have at most a handful of guys total that aren't at their ceiling: Luka, Green, Hardy (maybe Wood and SD) too. We have to implement Hardy in more meaningful moments. I'm all for striking a balance of getting him more minutes while not crushing him with negative experiences but we are nowhere near that balance.
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