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Burks and other random thoughts from tonight
Posted by: Andy on February 10th, 2013
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.Burks has looked like a lottery pick should the last 5 games. Congrats to him for getting his career high tonight, but that isn’t the most exciting thing about his game. He has learned what it takes for him to stay on the court; playing defense, keeping wild shots to a minimum, and knocking down open jumpers. I think being benched early on actually has made him improve. While sticking to the veterans can be frustrating, I’m happy Burks didn’t slip through the cracks and become a joke.
The Jazz only play 2-3 games before the trade deadline. For optimists, this can be seen as we only have 3 games before Al moves and we see the Jazz really start the future. For pessimists, it means we will lose a great opportunity in 3 games, and those 3 games may be the last we watch this season. Trade talks around the league are heating up. I would be shocked if the Jazz don’t make a move.
Tonight confirmed that Al has to be the one to go. That doesn’t mean Millsap is set to stay, but Al drags the team down on nights he doesn’t have his 15 footers going.
Favors provides a shot blocking presence right now between DeAndre Jordan – Dwight Howard. I would go as far as saying he is a top-5 big man defender. He completely changes the game when he is in and active. Kanter needs to minimize the time it takes for him to work in the post and he will be fine.
If the Jazz do make a major trade, can we make sure to turn ESA into the King’s arena tonight? The energy in there was awesome, and we should welcome the new Jazz to something like that.
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Consensus around the league seems to be the Jazz will not make a move. We already have a 15 man roster, so we would have to get rid of one of our players to bring in anyone else.
The Jazz have been unable to get rid of Raja Bell, and WON’T get rid of Earl Watson or Jamaal Tinsley. They will let Millsap and Jefferson play out their contracts and resign at least one of them, if not both.
They will keep Marvin Williams and continue to give him starter minutes.
I believe that they are actually playing Alec Burks to showcase him for a trade. If they get rid of anybody, it will probably be him.
NKA – SO even tho there are “rumors and what not that have said that they will not trade burks you think he is going to get traded.. i believe they have labeled the young core as Untouchable.
Ill be honest. My desire to watch this team past the trade deadline will greatly diminish if Al isn’t traded. It already is lower already. Lol I never used to miss a single game and I didn’t even know there was a game Saturday! Just happened across it flipping through the guide.
Have some balls Front office, take a risk, go young and start the new era already. At this point, I think we’ve gotten any benefit (is an eighth seed and sweep reallly a benefit?) we’re going to get from playing veterans in front of our talented young players. Following this strategy past this trade deadline is just going to be detrimental to our future.
Tinsley+ Watson +Al just don’t fit IMO. I’m fine with keeping Millsap, Foye, Mo, Marvin (I think his offensive game has been diminished playing with Al and so many bigs, but I’ve been impressed with his defense) because I see them fitting well with our young guys.
One final thought I’ve had in my head lately. Pretend we didnt have the bench we have now. Lets pretend we replace it with some recent bench players we’ve had. Instead of Kanter and Favors, Francisco Elson and Fesenko. Instead of Hayward, CJ Miles. Instead of Foye, Raja Bell.
Seriously, how bad would we be losing games? When was the last time you felt like our starters were a better unit than the opponent? The Bobcats maybe? When have our starters actually outplayed the opposing starters? If we didn’t have our bench, would Tyrone still value the veterans like he does? I guarantee everyone would want to be blowing that team up and rebuilding, so why the hell are we going with that team so heavily now? GET ON WITH THE FUTURE ALREADY! There’s really no benefit in delaying it further.
Damn, KC, your on fire today with all your comments!!! Perfectly said!
Other teams have no choice but to play scubs, mediocre players, and trash players…..Jazz however have their replacements already on the roster!!!! Lol.
Jazz don’t trade Al, this season is trashed! Corbin is infuriating. So much talent wasted by having hom at coach.
Time to play some “Money Ball?”
It will all depend on who/what they can get back vs what they feel they can get out of their cap space next summer.
Do they find a willing trade partner?
It takes two to tango.
Jazzaholic
@ Andy, when did Al not have his 15 rooters going? He and Millsap got in foul trouble last night early. He was the only chance we had of beating the Bulls the night before until they double teamed him even prior to getting the ball
@KC, I might be the happiest fan to be rid of Miles, Elson, Fesekno, Bell, Price, Collins etc and yes we did find better replacements which added much more depth to our roster, so what scrubs will we replace Millsap, Al, Mo, Randy and Marvin with if we hand the reins over to the “core 4″?
@Omar and everyone else, who do do recommend we hire as coach to replace Corbin? Lots of talk about how we should fire him but no solutions. As for current coaches without a job I like Stan who used to coach Orlando. I have to laugh that you are all so hard on a guy with a .500 record despite the chaos he has had to deal with for 2 years. Everyone seems to forget that he has won like 15 outbox the last 20 games without his starting PG and possibly his most valuable player as of late in Hayward. Quit bitching about everything and offer some solutions along with realistic trade proposals that benefit all team involved
@Kory…..werent you the guy that proposed a trade where Jazz give up Al, Tinsley, Bell and get back Paul Pierce, Knight, and English??!!……
And look at Corbins record against teams with winning records. 8-18 against teams with winning records. Thats less than 30%.
February 10: Jazz have ZERO wins against West teams with winning records on the road! Thats in 3 and a half months; playoffs jazz have to do that at least once in 1 and half weeks.
Jazz have only beat 3 West teams with winning records……all year!! In 3 and a half months. In the playoffs you have to win 4 in week and half thats WHY!!
Im not okay with a mediocre coach! I cant speak for everyone, but #FireCorbin.
Anyone that realizes Tinsley and Watson should not be getting 40+ minutes and someone that has guts to bench Al when he doesnt get back on D, like last night at the end of half when Thomas went coast to coast and got an and 1 on Al. Someone like that would be an improvement.
Id trade Al picks for all I care.
Yes Omar, I was that guy. Thanks for reading my posts. That was simply a post catering to the rumor involving Pierce and Jefferson and an in depth comparison as tonPierces strengths and how his numbers would replace Al’s numbers. I hate Paul Pierce and adding him would take away from Foye, Hayward and Burks.
Stijl, NO SOLUTIONS. Just complaints
Ur welcome Kory. Im not the one complaining about people trade proposal post. Im simply point to the fact that you come off as a hypocrite. Thats all.
I hope you realize you are complaining about people complaining right?! Lol.
Solution:
Bench Al 18 minutes max.
Bench Tinsley
DNP Watson
Hows that?! We dont even need hypothetical trade for that!
@Kory – You only have to get scrubs for backups if you’re paying vetetan salaries to five starters and you dont happen to have four lottery picks off the bench. You missed my point though. Our terrific bench is inflating the win record of our starters, making them appear better than they are. You could switch the roles of our bench / starters and we’d be just as good now (or better) plus we would be better in the future due to more development time for the guys with higher ceilings. Our defense would be better and the offensive end would be more exciting to watch. And that’s without making a single roster change. That right there should be a giant red flag to everyone about our coach.
agree with Kory,
#DontFireCorbin
I mean come on guys, give the guy a break. The coach is handed a roster at the begining of the season and he needs to win as many games as possible. Is he perfect? Nobody is.
It’s not as easy as saying hey, this young player, lets give him all the minutes we can from the very first moment he arrives in the NBA. I like the idea of having the young players earn their minutes with actions, it develops a mindset of having to work your way up to the top instead of having them take it for granted. We’re just starting to see sparks of what Burks can really be, and after a game like the one against the Kings watch how he gets more minutes. I was so glad to see him break his carreer high record.