Good post. I agree Carter has a lot more to teach the kids than Carroll. But that's not what I was asking. Having expierenced a lot is positive when it comes to passing your wisdom to the younger generation, but it doesn't mean you are a good teacher. Just a simple example - my father at his time was one of the leading german experts when it came to marine technology. He was an outstanding development engineer and had quite a few patent applications. So in theory he is excactly the type of guy, you want young engineers to learn from. Problem is, he is a horrible teacher. 
The old man is and always was pretty much like a confused professor. He can hardly explain simple things like integration to his grandchilds, because he just can't follow a simple path, but wants to explain 3 different methods to one problem at once. Whenever I was forced to learn for maths exams in school, my father came in, eager to help and after a few hours of fruitless attempts to explain things to me, it ended up with me explaining to him, how we do things in school and him rambling over how idiotic and over complicated our "school methods" were. Nowadays this are beloved memories, but at that time..... But back to the topic: For us from the outside looking in, there is no way to find out, who of those guys is a good teacher. From what we heard out of our now sophomores the guy they bonded the most with was Temple. Temple is not a high profile NBA player, but he may be a great teacher. I remember Temple saying, that the rookies nowadays want to be treated as man and want to be respected. That for example was an entirely different approach, than the approach Rudy Gay had towards young guys, who repeatedly made fun of them in interviews or suggested he didn't know their names, because they were rookies and such (DMC had similar tendencies, but in public was a lot more supportive towards the young players). It may be this method of empowerment towards the rookies, that made Temple their favorite vet and a guy, they willingly learned from. So I would guess you don't have to be a high profile player to be a great teacher and if you are a high profile player, it doesn't automatically mean you can teach things. The thing we do know, is that Joerger knows Carter well enough. So if Joerger wanted Carter as a teacher for the young guys, we pretty much have to trust him. I'm still not excited, because I do think using our capspace differently may have gotten us a few additional assets, but that's hypothetical and a different topic.
The old man is and always was pretty much like a confused professor. He can hardly explain simple things like integration to his grandchilds, because he just can't follow a simple path, but wants to explain 3 different methods to one problem at once. Whenever I was forced to learn for maths exams in school, my father came in, eager to help and after a few hours of fruitless attempts to explain things to me, it ended up with me explaining to him, how we do things in school and him rambling over how idiotic and over complicated our "school methods" were. Nowadays this are beloved memories, but at that time..... But back to the topic: For us from the outside looking in, there is no way to find out, who of those guys is a good teacher. From what we heard out of our now sophomores the guy they bonded the most with was Temple. Temple is not a high profile NBA player, but he may be a great teacher. I remember Temple saying, that the rookies nowadays want to be treated as man and want to be respected. That for example was an entirely different approach, than the approach Rudy Gay had towards young guys, who repeatedly made fun of them in interviews or suggested he didn't know their names, because they were rookies and such (DMC had similar tendencies, but in public was a lot more supportive towards the young players). It may be this method of empowerment towards the rookies, that made Temple their favorite vet and a guy, they willingly learned from. So I would guess you don't have to be a high profile player to be a great teacher and if you are a high profile player, it doesn't automatically mean you can teach things. The thing we do know, is that Joerger knows Carter well enough. So if Joerger wanted Carter as a teacher for the young guys, we pretty much have to trust him. I'm still not excited, because I do think using our capspace differently may have gotten us a few additional assets, but that's hypothetical and a different topic.
