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What happened to AJ Griffins place in the Hawks rotation? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Fantasy_Ball@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Filler: he was a binaries bonafide sharp shooter last season and looked like a really good young player but come to find out today he only player like 8 minutes? What’s up with that?

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[–] bb1432@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Quin clearly does not like him.

We'll take him off their hands.

[–] ZandrickEllison@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s interesting that his defense is so bad because (from my memory) he was considered a good defender in high school and his dad is a defensive specialist coach. But maybe injuries just wrecked his lateral speed?

[–] a_moniker@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, didn’t he have a terrible injury in between High School and College?

Regardless, High School defense is a completely different thing than NBA. He was a known as a bad defensive prospect coming into the draft.

[–] ZandrickEllison@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I guess it was just because he was built people thought he’d be a tough defender. But he struggled a lot at Duke with that too.

[–] jeRskier@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Raps sub wanted to trade Siakam for this guy lmao

[–] Acrobatic_Flatworm79@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

That sub dwells in the abyss with Rick James

[–] MiserableSoft2344@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Didn’t we just have this conversation not even a week ago? He looked like poo poo in summer league. Jumper disappeared.

[–] LeanTim@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Bucks should trade for him. His pops would give him some minutes.

[–] likpoper@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Will trade for aj if given a chance and cheap

[–] MitchLGC@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Hes slow as molasses

[–] Overall-Palpitation6@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

They've got like 15 wing players on that Hawks squad. Can't give minutes to everyone.

Seriously though, note that Griffin's minutes took a dip from 20.4 per game to 16.3 per game after Quin Snyder was hired last season. Perhaps Snyder just prefers other players ahead of Griffin in the rotation, and feels like it's OK to bring him along more slowly at this stage.

[–] Dat_one_lad@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I'll always remember him for one thing, Nick Richards (Hornets backup center) had just gotten a block and then a dunk or smt and was hyped asf. AJ came down the floor and was guarded by Nick and u could tell nick was fiending for a block, AJ did the most subtle head fake and froze him, easy layup

[–] kpeds45@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

There are still lunatic Raptors fans who think he is a great centerpiece for a Pascal trade