K tells message boards to chill the F out:
“[The role players] are good guys, but you know what, for me the main guys to develop are Mason [Plumlee], Ryan [Kelly] and Seth [Curry]. This is not like an AAU team or whatever; you have to make sure your group understands its role. Mason’s role this year is different from last year – he has to get a lot of minutes. To see Alex [Murphy] and Amile [Jefferson] and Josh [Hairston] play so well today, that is great, but it doesn’t mean that we are going to get this wave of substitutions and things like that.
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“First of all, you are always honest with [role players]. You have a relationship with them, and not all these guys are great players. They are good players. If they are great players, they wouldn’t be here, they would be in the NBA right now. If they are some freak athlete or whatever. They all have development to go through and they have to develop under people that they trust, and if you tell them the truth all the time they have a better chance of trusting you. I have a great staff who works with these guys. Each guy is on his own race to becoming better, and they run their individual races as we are collectively running our race. The collective race is much more important than your individual race, and you can’t compare your race with another guy. Ryan Kelly hardly played his freshman year, and Ryan Kelly is a heck of a player right now and has been, so the example of doing it that way. Making sure they know that we believe in them.”