Nineteen points is Mario "The Croat GOAT" Hezonja's highest-scoring game this season, despite the fact that he scored twenty or more six times last season. Again, this brings up the eternal question: is he getting misused by Fiz, or does hes just suck? As is usual for me, I don't know the answer, but I can pretend to know the answer in order to influence the thinking of gullible YouTube users. It's both. There's no reason for Hezonja to get DNP's like he did for a few games in a row at the end of the calendar year. There are definitely players on the roster who should be prioritized for developmental minutes, but Hezonja is definitely good enough at basketball to deserve playing time. It's not like the roster is stacked with high-talent players who are vacuuming up the minutes. Hezonja is also bad enough at basketball that he's not usually going to go out there and win games by himself, so he doesn't hinder the tanking process that is going on right now in New York. I suppose that Fiz has no incentive to try to develop Hezonja because Hezonja's on a one-year deal and is unlikely to re-sign in New York given how he's been treated up to this point. If Fiz had gone all-in on making Hezonja one of the core members of the Knicks, Hezonja would have wanted to stick around, but that's not what happened. Hezonja will find a different team this off-season (maybe not even in the NBA) and all the minutes that Fiz threw at him will have been for nothing except improved lottery chances. All clips property of the NBA. No copyright infringement is intended. Check out http://downtobuck.net !