Phoenix Suns midseason grades
By Adam Maynes
Greg Monroe
I feel bad for Greg Monroe. He really is not a bad player. He’s definitely not to Eric Bledsoe’s stature in the league, but he is still deserving of more games and minutes than he is receiving.
When he plays and receives starter’s minutes, he’s basically a double-double machine. He remains prepared and goes about his business. When he doesn’t play, he’s silent. He doesn’t complain publicly, as far as any of us know he works hard at practice, and he knows that he will eventually be waived or traded and thus has no future with the franchise.
He’s not the future, but as of this moment, he is the now, and I have personally been very happy with him. I suppose I wish that he played well enough to make up for the loss of Bledsoe and well enough to steal more rotational minutes, but at the same time, that’s not his role with the Suns, and was never intended to be.
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