I went to look at the game logs,
briefly longer than estimated.
Joe's
last Game Started for the Celtics, back in time, was
1-18-2002. Joe was scoreless (0-4) in 18 min played.
These stats don't say anything important.
In those last bunch of games (11) (Joe started) before he lost his Starting Gig to
Kedrick (1st Start on 1-19-2001), the Celtics were 5 Wins - 6 Losses. (
2 W - 1 L) afterwards
when Kedrick started.
Don't mean jack, too small sample size).
Joe AVG 18.9 MPG (208 min / 11 games). Joe AVG 5.2 PPG (57 points / 11g) on FG%
34.3% (24/70).
Joe's 2 previous monthly splits:November (10 out 11 Games Started)
28.4 MPG:
FG% .468 TS% .528 PPG - 9.5 RPG - 4.4 APG - 2.6
December (15 /16 GS)
23.1 MPG:
FG% .451 TS% .493 PPG - 7.1 RPG - 3.4 APG - 1.7
January SPLITS (8 / 14 GS)
17MPG:
FG% .359 TS% .435 PPG - 4.1 RPG - 2.1 APG - 0.9
So before AVG -
17 MPG in Jan. Joe was averaging
25.26 MPG in (Nov. + Dec.) In these two months he
started 25 out of 27 games or
92% of the games played. In
January, Joe started
only 8 / 14 games or
57.14%. In the 10 games after Joe lost his Starters job & before he was traded to PHO, he was averaging
7.8 MPG (78 / 10)
as a reserve off the bench.
My last comment on Joe's starting job loss: Joe did't lose his starters gig to Kedrick. It wasn't like Kedrick lit the league on fire. Kedrick didn't "win" the starter's job, he was given the job by coaching just as a "test run" because Joe was struggling in his 14 games of January.
In Joe's 1st game started for the PHO Suns (after 1 game off the bench) Joe's game line -
23/11/6 on (11/18) .611 shooting (1-3 on 3's) with zero FTs & FTAs.
Joe struggled in his next
7 games as a Sun Starter.
6 ppg/5 rpg/4 apg on shooting (17/63) or
27 FG%.
(25.6 MPG)But the Suns didn't quit with Joe, they
continued to play AND START him.
After those struggling 7 games, Joe went on to average
9.67 PPG to finish the season for the Suns. And a
10.9 PPG in the last month of April. Both numbers higher than any month for the Celtics. He shot
45.5 FG% (117/257). 844 total mins over
27 games or
31.26 MPG.
My key points out of all this: - Don't quit on your young guys. If you're going to stink up the joint, why not just let the youngsters learn from the experience & have them learn how to work out of that "smelly" joint.
- The MO of Obie's staff was to make the playoffs, build upon their previous year's 24-24 finish after Rick Pitino quit.
- Now, our current MO, & there is no doubt Danny & Stevens are on the same page, their MO is to develope, hone, improve the young roster for the future. This may entail that Danny will trade these improved youngsters for proven star veteran type players. We've seen this happen before.