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Jazz Rookies Shine in First NBA Starts
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Sweet. Winning by 22 with Easy at the helm. You know Sloan is loving that. And 13 and 11 on the double-double is not going to hurt him either. Now he needs to put together another solid game tonight. Maybe you could see Sloan trying out a Maynor / Williams combo at the 1-2 when Williams returns. ?? Wouldn't that be sweet. Williams is such a prolific offensive player, maybe it's wise to have him at the 2- with Eric being the more "pure" point type guy. Just a thought. Sloan loves the true point guard, with his pick-and-roll, fundamentally sound system. aka... john Stockton.
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from Phil Jasner off Philly.com
But to Sloan, Maynor moving into the lineup is simply a step within the natural order of things.
"If you play and haven't had the chance to get a lot of minutes, it's time to get out there and play and see what happens, and hope you can sneak up on a team," Sloan said.
As for what he told Maynor . . .
"Just go play," Sloan said. "He's had an opportunity to play, just not as much as he deserved. He's a young player we like a lot and hopefully, gradually, he can get a lot better. John Stockton sat on the bench for 2 1/2 years [behind Ricky Green]. You see how bad a guy wants to play; you see him in an every-day routine, which gets to be a real job. It all depends on how you approach it."
Still, can't a first start be something of a mindblower?
"All depends on his mind," Sloan said. "I don't know about his. I know about mine."
Which took Sloan back to his rookie year with the then-Washington Bullets in 1965.
"I was behind Kevin Loughery and Don Ohl," he said, smiling. "Loughery had his tonsils out and I started the first seven games of the season."
And . . .
"Fouled out of six of them," he said.
But to Sloan, Maynor moving into the lineup is simply a step within the natural order of things.
"If you play and haven't had the chance to get a lot of minutes, it's time to get out there and play and see what happens, and hope you can sneak up on a team," Sloan said.
As for what he told Maynor . . .
"Just go play," Sloan said. "He's had an opportunity to play, just not as much as he deserved. He's a young player we like a lot and hopefully, gradually, he can get a lot better. John Stockton sat on the bench for 2 1/2 years [behind Ricky Green]. You see how bad a guy wants to play; you see him in an every-day routine, which gets to be a real job. It all depends on how you approach it."
Still, can't a first start be something of a mindblower?
"All depends on his mind," Sloan said. "I don't know about his. I know about mine."
Which took Sloan back to his rookie year with the then-Washington Bullets in 1965.
"I was behind Kevin Loughery and Don Ohl," he said, smiling. "Loughery had his tonsils out and I started the first seven games of the season."
And . . .
"Fouled out of six of them," he said.