Gamethread: Jazz @ Suns. 8 PST

[carolinajazz]

We had 30 assists! Rubio hurt again, though, with a hamstring or groin pull? Only played 20 minutes!

 

[SoUjazzfan]

Dunno but she's looking at Donovan like Oliver Miller looks at a buffet

That is an instant classic! Well played Rub

 

[Spinoza]

The month before his injury he was averaging 8/4/2. Was definitely the best he’d ever played in his career.

In the 11 games prior to Exum rolling his ankle (starting with Miami on Dec. 12th when he began receiving consistent minutes and was healthy), his per 36 stats:

pts ast trb fg fga fg3 fga3 ft fta stl to ast/to fg%
18.06 7.91 3.44 6.88 14.45 1.20 3.10 3.10 3.10 0.86 2.58 3.07 47.62
3pt% ft%
38.89 100.00

He was playing really, really well.

edit: Since my wonderful whitespace was stripped from above, let me just type this out: Exum was averaging (per 36) 18 pts and 8 asts on 47.6% fg shooting and 39% 3pt shooting with an ast/to ratio over 3 in those 11 games. He was actually playing 19 minutes a night.

 

[Rubashov]

Oooh, comin with the Phoenix Suns reference!

More of a buffet enthusiast reference...

 

[Spinoza]

I don’t like Dante. His awkward gate and general ineptness bothers me. That said, I really want him to work out because we used all our chips on him. I can recognize that he was good for 3 weeks. He’s back to looking like *** again already.

He just came back from being out 9 weeks and is getting spot minutes. Snyder is a massive dumbass when it comes to utilizing Exum.

 

[str8line]

He just came back from being out 9 weeks and is getting spot minutes. Snyder is a massive dumbass when it comes to utilizing Exum.

Maybe he's saving him for tomorrow night?

 

[jope]

and i take it you're a graceful physical specimen ??

Moderate athletes would exceed his grace to be certain. Not saying anything about his top speed or whatever you wanna cite. He just looks like he’s about to trip over himself between athletic moments.

 

[Spinoza]

After Exum fell on his face the second time, they had a close up on Quin, and he mouthed "get him out."

But Rubio continues to get starter minutes (if healthy) no matter how garbage he plays, which is basically every time he's out there.

 

[jope]

But Rubio continues to get starter minutes (if healthy) no matter how garbage he plays, which is basically every time he's out there.

I mean, pick your poison I guess. Exum 0p/1.5a/1.5r on 0-7 shooting in 2 games since returning —or— Rubio 7p/7a/3r on 4-19 shooting in past 2 games. Not great either way.

 

[Spinoza]

Honestly looking at rubios shooting numbers they arent as bad i thought they would be. 32% from 3 isnt good, its bad but it isnt horribly putrid. 40% from the field overall is bad but it could be worse. I expected sub 30% and sub 40%


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That's because he's so streaky. Look at his game log and you'll see his 11/16, 10/13, 11/23, 10/15 games early in the season that make up for his many 1/7, 3/11, 1/8 ones. He even had a couple of good shooting games as recent as January.

 

[Spinoza]

I mean, pick your poison I guess. Exum 0p/1.5a/1.5r on 0-7 shooting in 2 games since returning —or— Rubio 7p/7a/3r on 4-19 shooting in past 2 games. Not great either way.

How can you expect him to get comfortable, confident, or in any sort of rhythm with the sort of short lease and spotty minutes he's been getting? Rubio is just more reliable. Reliably bad, but still reliable. It gives me flashbacks to the Corbin era.

Look at the 4th quarter. Exum enters the game at 11:33 remaining and gets yanked at 8:55. He then re-enters the game for the final 2 minutes of garbage time. He entered the game at 2:00 remaining in the 1st quarter and got pulled with 9:30 remaining in the 2nd. He's literally playing in 2 minute stretches.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Dunno but she's looking at Donovan like Oliver Miller looks at a buffet

who's the fattest **** in NBA history ?? Oliver .. Z-Bo .. Big Baby .. ?????