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NBA Columnist/Cavs Insider Sam Amico: "Jazz have made Burks available"

billyshelby said:
Just to clarify the argument, the reason Burks is not playing has nothing to do with his performance this season. He's only appeared in half the games, and played more than 10 minutes in 2 games. We'd have lots of guys benched who didn't play well in the two consecutive games they got exactly 14 and 10 minutes like Burks has.

The reason Burks doesn't play is because the Jazz signed a solid, journeyman 2, the only position Burks can reasonably play as a 2nd year guy. Not surprisingly, the solid, journeyman 2 is putting up basically the same numbers he always has, and has a good feel for how to fit in after 7 years in the league.

But we knew he would. And we know his ceiling. Meanwhile, we don't know what Burks can do with regular minutes night after night. It's hard to bench Foye, but was there really not a decent shooting 3 out there we could have acquired so we could commit to Burks at the backup 2?
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if its in a package deal with jefferson or millsap then im ok with it. i am a huge burks fan and i do believe he has great potential. however, i do not believe he will get the PT out here in utah. i'd like to see him have a good career on another team if he is just going to have his talents wasted on ours. we need a PGOTF and we wont get one for expiring jefferdad or millsap alone. its gotta be somebody. burks is the odd man out.
 
Also, that journeyman played more minutes than Hayward last night.

This Burks biz is a ****ing tragedy in my books. We knew he was a hero baller when we drafted him, he appears to have worked hard on his body and game, and he did well in pre-season tests.

For me, it has everything to do with a lack of stones in the coaching staff and a lack of imagination in their offense. Bull****. No exaggeration.
 
Here we have one player:

17% FG
00% 3pt
20% FT

We are proclaiming him an All-Star in the making, but Corbin sucks and is making him suck. Then we bag on this guy:

45% from 3 pt
88% from the ft
38% from fg

Ummmm....

Thank heaven Corbin is our coach (And I never thought I'd say that).
 
NAOS said:
Also, that journeyman played more minutes than Hayward last night.

This Burks biz is a ****ing tragedy in my books. We knew he was a hero baller when we drafted him, he appears to have worked hard on his body and game, and he did well in pre-season tests.

For me, it has everything to do with a lack of stones in the coaching staff and a lack of imagination in their offense. Bull****. No exaggeration.
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Meh. I just don't like Burks hopper style.
 
green said:
Here we have one player:

17% FG
00% 3pt
20% FT

We are proclaiming him an All-Star in the making, but Corbin sucks and is making him suck. Then we bag on this guy:

45% from 3 pt
88% from the ft
38% from fg

Ummmm....

Thank heaven Corbin is our coach (And I never thought I'd say that).
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Burks has taken 17 shots all season, 4 of which were 3's. He's only played 10 minutes twice. Absolutely nothing can be concluded by his play this season.
 
I know Burks gets a lot of hype for being able to get to the rim, but didn't he have an awful FG% around the rim his rookie season?
 
green said:
Here we have one player:

17% FG
00% 3pt
20% FT

We are proclaiming him an All-Star in the making, but Corbin sucks and is making him suck. Then we bag on this guy:

45% from 3 pt
88% from the ft
38% from fg

Ummmm....

Thank heaven Corbin is our coach (And I never thought I'd say that).
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billyshelby said:
Burks has taken 17 shots all season, 4 of which were 3's. He's only played 10 minutes twice. Absolutely nothing can be concluded by his play this season.
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Agree with earlier BS comment about why he's not playing. And Green, if all you do is look at Foye's shooting percentage then you are missing the full reality of what else Foye brings to the table and they are mostly negatives. In a way, he's like Big Al, good stats that do not result in a good outcome for the team. They are the type of players who make their teammates worse because they don't do the little things. Al, in this regard, is better than Foye, as he sometimes does make big plays. But it's their overall game that sucks away the life of the rest of the team.

And because of the poor foresight of the coaching, similar to Jerry I might add, who also was not good at developing young players unless he took a special interest in them, like CJ who never panned out, you are ruining a guy who could be so much more than Foye could ever even imagine being.
 
It was humerous, and sad to watch the Burks haters trash him for missing two shots in garbage time. If you noticed (and we know you didn't) he played hard on defense, and was not the horrible chucker you made him out to be in 4 mins.

What he has stopped doing in his limited time is attack the rim. He's got to continue to do what he does best, and hope his effort on the defensive end is noticed.
 
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