u/DDiabloDDad

Donovan Mitchell is 29th in playoff minutes per game, Mobley is 40th, and JA is 78th.

Notable players ahead of Donovan include Paul George, Jrue Holiday, Rui Hachimura, and LeBron James.

Notable players in front of Mobley include Luke Kennard and Marcus Smart

Notable players in front of JA include Aja Mitchell, Jamal Shead, Scoot Henderson, Duncan Robinson, Julian Champagnie

Hopefully you are seeing a trend here. Players that are older, younger, and less accomplished are given more opportunities in the playoffs than our top guys. Kenny just will not play anyone big minutes.

JA is a former all star and just led us to a victory in a game seven. Apparently he can't be trusted to play big minutes in a game.

Mobley has made all NBA second team, won defensive player of the year and is 25 years old. Apparently he can't put in 40 minutes in an important game.

Donovan Mitchell has made all NBA first team, and is a seven time all star, but even he has to be sat after a good start to the game in the first quarter and of course again in the 4th quarter.

Old vets play 40. Rookies play 40. Junk starters who are no where close to all star level can play 40. Every other team will play their best players and let them win or lose it. Not Kenny though. He's too smart for that. Saving them for summer vacation.

I'm sure since everyone hates all of our players that the response will be that the players suck and the coach is great, but I am just a firm believer that you have to go with what you have. Sure there's a chance we will still lose all these games, but at the very least give the actual talented players the opportunity to impact the game like every other team is doing.

Dennis (9th), Mitchell, Ellis (10th), Mobley and Bryant (11th). I believe it was used from 11:17 - 9:32. Dennis hit a three right at the start of this stretch to make it 82-85. We were down 82-91 when Kenny subbed Harden in for Dennis.

I can't wrap my head around this one. Bryant and Ellis were both unplayable against the Raptors. Should we give them a chance in the first half to see what they have against the Pistons? Debatable. However, the answer was in and it wasn't much. Neither was playing great and Bryant was actively bad.

Playing Dennis in key situations is up for debate as well, but at least it's defensible. He's had more success these playoffs and was showing more in last night's game. Even with that being said, I think there is a strong argument that Kenny is relying on him too heavily and in too many key spots.

All of this while at the same time Mitchell, Harden, and Mobley are capped at 35 minutes, JA gets 18, and Mobley and JA are not played together at all.

Kenny's distrust of JA will be the death of us. JA is obviously incredibly inconsistent, but he is also talented. I don't care if Dean Wade plays in 2,345 playoff games, he will NEVER have a game like JA had in game 7 against the Raptors. He's simply talent capped. Mobley/Wade is not as good as Mobley/JA. Yet Kenny is consistently in favor of benching JA in key moments for Wade.

Mitchell has been bad, everyone knows it, but you have to play him like he's our best player and a star. Trying to hope Keon Ellis and Thomas Bryant carry us because Donovan is missing 3s is just fucking stupid.