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Rodrigue Beaubois and Dominique Jones will push for minutes at both guard spots, but it’s crowded and there’s no guarantees for either. Both young players have had encouraging training camps. Beaubois is coming off a second foot surgery in the summer and appears to be as close to full strength as he’s been since the end of the 2009-10 season.
Jones is working hard to develop a jump shot and has been impressive driving and getting to the free throw line, showing more advanced skills at point guard the Beaubois. With the compacted scheduled, both could see playing time at any time, or none at all.
“He’s got to be ready. I don’t know what his minutes will be like; I don’t even know if he’ll play Sunday, but he’s got to be ready to play Sunday because we may well need him,” Carlisle said of Jones. “He knows the system, he knows how he fits into it and we’ve continued to reiterate to him the importance of being ready. Same thing with Beaubois, same thing with [Ian] Mahinmi, [Brandan] Wright, all our young guys.”
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