If you let a withering away 70 year old jack your swagger you’re mentally weak haha no but really,
Derrick simply needs to nut the up. The man is 25 years old it’s not like he’s some 20 year old or something.
His whole basketball career people have been doubting him and he’s been proving people wrong so this shouldn’t be anything new to him. He just needs to take advantage of every second he gets out there and not be passive/timid. We all have seen what he’s capable of but regardless of him not starting and getting yanked for this or that he hasn’t performed the way he can with the minutes he has been getting.
Shot attempts for the bench during the six game losing streak; Patty Mills 60, Rudy Gay 52, Derrick White 40, Marco Belinelli 37, Jakob Poeltl 32. In having played 22 more minutes than Patty over the last 6 games he’s taken 20 less shots than him and only 3 more than Marco has in 44 more minutes.
I personally think Pops lost it and deserves pretty much everything going wrong with this team but I’m not about to blame him for this. He just needs to go out there and act like he belongs. Because right now he’s just another player out there.