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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 3479179, member: 837"]
Such a tired narrative. I like Goodine -- think he'll do well at PC and wish he had gotten a bit more run here -- so that's fine. But he was really unsure of himself offensively every single time I watched him. His shot was clunky and he wasn't blowing by anyone. Nice defensive player but he had to get better before he got serious minutes. This whole 'give a guy minutes and he'll turn out to be a key piece by the end of the season' theory so many folks here have is written as fact but is pure theory.

I'm not saying minutes don't help a kid's development but the idea that you just hand a kid minutes early and he gets better late in a season is a remarkable oversimplification. We've had a lot of players here who haven't improved significantly year-to-year let alone week-to-week within the season.

So I liked Goodine, sorry he's gone. But he made more than one field goal in a game three times despite having played in 23 games and reached double-figures in minutes nine times. What would anyone have seen from that to say 'how the hell is not part of our regular rotation?!?!?!?!?!' Bizarre.
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