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I think DSon's point was that Lively will soon start playing over 25 mpg as he performs better and better.Not sure if I’m misunderstanding pronouns, but Lively hasn’t cracked 25 minutes in a game yet. Hopefully we start seeing more of him and less Young.
I think Young moves pretty well in the pick and roll and has good awareness, but he can't really recover quickly or jump to contest.I just think the ceiling of any lineups with Young are so limited by his lack of presence around the rim defensively. There’s so much less room for error on that end when any advantage situation going towards the rim is probably going to be 2 points, vs with Lively where he can basically recover from any position to block or alter the shot.
I would ideally like to see him in a 9th man role where his minutes are basically situational and are more of a function of whether effort is sluggish and/or the freshman bigs are sucking rather than being a scheduled part of the nightly rotation. Otherwise, you essentially need to accept (1) Mitchell at the 3, (2) Whitehead never breaking 20mpg, or (3) another guard losing minutes in favor of Young.