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Start Dante for Rubio

fishonjazz said:
I'm down.
I think X still mostly sucks but so does Rubio. I said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think you would get much difference results whether you start Mitchell at pg, or X, Ingles, Rubio, neto, Allen..... We don't have a good point guard so might as well go with Exum since he is under contract long term and is still young with upside.
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Sorry fish, but the only thing that sucks is your analysis. Exum is showing REAL potential with his penetration/finishing/FLOATER FOR **** SAKES/and now his lobs that resulted in 13 assists.

Having been an Alec Burks fan, I would imagine you could appreciate Quin Snyder keeping too short a leash on a young player. I love Quin, but it was bad decision making with Alec, same as it is with Dante. Only difference is that Dante has that penetration/finishing/floater/lob ability that should give him carte blanche.
 
utahjazzz said:
when Dante had his bad games throughout the years, criticicism from double standards mitchell/rubio fans were also very predictable. LOL
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What does “mitchell/rubio” fans have to do with anything. Exum had a great game against a trash team, I need to see more. However it was encouraging to see how well he played today and I really hope he lives up to his initial expectations.
 
Dante is so damn fast! He gets to the basket at will. If he gets the floater it's all over. Think about it. If the centre stays with our centre. Dante has a floater or a layup or the dunk. If the centre goes to Dante he throws the alley Oop or pass to gobert or favors. He could be great if he gets stronger improves his floater and layup
 
Dante was good tonight... but the knicks effort in first half was a joke... Jazz players were laughing and dudes were so open. It actually could have ended up much worse in the first half.

Dante did some good things against a **** team... it’s what he’s suppose to do. He’s had a very solid month. I want to see it against a little better competition and for a bit longer before I buy back in.

I’m really happy doe... that would have been disappointing to see him take a step back against an inferior opponent. It’s quite encouraging.
 
I’m really happy doe... that would have been disappointing to see him take a step back against an inferior opponent. It’s quite encouraging.
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That speaks for what a lot of fanz were thinking......then he starts orchestrating a dunkathon. That in itself causes excitement
 
Jazzta said:
What does “mitchell/rubio” fans have to do with anything. Exum had a great game against a trash team, I need to see more. However it was encouraging to see how well he played today and I really hope he lives up to his initial expectations.
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He played well against the Rockets, the Heat, the Warriors, the Blazers, and the 76ers as well.

I don't think he's earned the starting position though. You need at least a quarter of a season of consistently doing this to say that.

On the other hand, Rubio is trash most nights, so it might be a positive change.
 
Jazz said:
Dante is so damn fast! He gets to the basket at will. If he gets the floater it's all over. Think about it. If the centre stays with our centre. Dante has a floater or a layup or the dunk. If the centre goes to Dante he throws the alley Oop or pass to gobert or favors. He could be great if he gets stronger improves his floater and layup
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Exum still needs to be able to consistently knock down a pull up 3 when defenders decide to wall off the PnR and dare Exum to shoot it even if he gets a consistently good floater. That was the defensive strategy one of, if not the best defensive team in the NBA in OKC pulled out against Exum a few games back and while the looks Exum got were great he missed pretty much all of them iirc.

It doesn't even need to be a quick shot as teams give him all the space he needs to take his time and knock it down, but until he proves he can consistently do it when given the shot the wall off PnR and stay home on shooters is a viable defensive strategy good teams not named the Knicks can pull out.
 
Exum still needs to be able to consistently knock down a pull up 3 when defenders decide to wall off the PnR and dare Exum to shoot it even if he gets a consistently good floater. That was the defensive strategy one of, if not the best defensive team in the NBA in OKC pulled out against Exum a few games back and while the looks Exum got were great he missed pretty much all of them iirc.

It doesn't even need to be a quick shot as teams give him all the space he needs to take his time and knock it down, but until he proves he can consistently do it when given the shot the wall off PnR and stay home on shooters is a viable defensive strategy good teams not named the Knicks can pull out.
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Big difference now and this will be what initially Exum will be judged on is that he is playing at the top of the key and not from the corners. We all know what he looks like playing from the corners and it isn't pretty basketball. But he plays with total confidence at the top of the key where he's initiating the PNR and taking much more comfortable 3pters.His room to operate is greater and he's on constant attack .A attacking Exum is better than the decoy Exum in the corners.
Last 6 games Exum has 31 assists to 4 turnovers ……. positive proof of where Exum operates best.
 
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