You can say we have to play odd substitution patterns if you want to, but there’s no logical reason for playing Chandler in place of Noah… yes Chandler’s D has improved, but Noah hasn’t got much a chance to show what he can do while Chandler gets run out there time after time
Have to disagree. I've seen enough of both to know that both are greatly improved but we don't see what Pope sees in practice and Chandler is ahead of Noah on d, with a higher ceiling...if he breaks out offensively, especially.
I've read(maybe here) that Chandler has really looked great in practices, but hasn't broken out in games, yet. He has the right tools to be very good and possesses what we need most, physically. We just need him to play like a sophomore or junior, now. It could happen. He's improving well of late and gaining confidence. You can see it. But I'm asking for a lot of improvement, in a short period of time.. but the potential is there, imo.
We have to get healthier or have someone really make a big step up. If given the decision to play Noah or Chandler and all else equal...I'd go with Chandler too, but based partly on things I've read and heard vs what we have seen from Chandler..yet.
Noah could stand a few more minutes too, at times. Just enough to find a rhythm and see what they've got with him on a given night. I'd like to see good runs from him but he's just making too many mistakes. His offense has to be better, to make up for his d...so far. Give him minutes where we can and let him grow, too. I do think he can give us some minutes but not sure how many or how consistently. I think if a player gets more or fewer minutes, is dynamic and a gut feel vs strictly numbers. At this point, with injuries, we need to find something or someone and Pope is looking for that right rotation, now. It's a very new line up now, vs when we were healthy. It has to involve inexperienced players, any way ya look at it, unfortunately. We're still good but we need something pretty big to go our way, too.
