I am more and more convinced that Jeff Hornacek needs to go.
Our season is over and he is still playing Waffen and Goodwin limited minutes but instead gives minutes to Green or Jerel McNeal?? And he plays Marcus Morris almost 40 minutes per game..
Marcus has had a few 40 minute games but it's an exaggeration to say he's playing "almost 40 minutes per game". Going backwards from the GSW game, his rounded minutes per game have been 26, 22, 37, 44, 26, 36, 36, 40, 39, 36, 30, 28, 19, 41, 20 which averages out to 32 minutes per game. If you go back further that average just goes down.
For all we know we might be auditioning the Morri for a trade. I know Marcus has raised his PER a few points since the trade deadline and is now almost average for whatever that's worth. Also, it's not like he's an old player with a fully developed game. He's just 25 and he's a much better player today than the anchor that took the court a few months ago. That's not saying much but still, it might be enough to entice some team to trade for them.
I don't really see a problem with Goodwin or Warren's minutes since the break. Except for the occasional DNP they are both getting decent minutes. I'd like to see them get a little more time but we're talking maybe 5 more minutes a game so I don't see it as a big deal. For a 1st and a 2nd year player, neither of them highly drafted, they are logging plenty of court time now. It can't be easy to go from rarely playing to playing 20 minutes a game 3 or 4 times a week.
As for McNeal, I don't know what the thinking is on him but he's played a grand total of 13 minutes in 2 games so I'm not too concerned. All said, I don't have any idea how to gauge Jeff's performance but right now the allocating of minutes seems trivial given the bigger issues out there.
