Alec has taken over as our alpha dog.
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Doublea
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Pretty impassive, and sad.
So I don't like his defense. It's Melo'esque. aka non existent.
He takes difficult shots often. While they go in right now, I still wanna see consistency with the ability to overcome off nights before I jump on the Burks bandwagon. He hasn't shown that as of yet. Plus some efficiency would be nice. But see yourself.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/burksal01.html
https://stats.nba.com/playerStats.html?PlayerID=202692&MeasureType=Advanced&PerMode=PerGame
The differences in evaluation of bbalref and NBA.com I explain by both having a different interpretation of possessions(NBA.com seems to count a play that occurs after an offensive board as a seperate possession while bballref says: They kept the possession alive via O-Reb.
You can see a 31.1% usage rate in February. That's superstar touches. His TOs have gone up since getting more opportunities.
Look at the huge discrepancy in the off rtg column between wins and losses. 10.6
You know what that means? Bill Simmons would call him a "heat-check-guy". And that's why he's coming off the bench. Because he doesn't have consistency and with this Jazz lineup apparently an off night of him hurts his team.
Jazz are running proper plays for his tendencies.
bovice
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You forgot Trey
nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips....
something something....forgot about trey
Bawse Dawg
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Slick Pimp is a straight beast and if you still can't see it there's no hope for you. He's in his third year but mah boi was gettin DNP's on the regular his first two years. By the end of this season his career minutes will be about equal to a day 1 rookie starter.
Slick Pimp is a terrible nickname tbh.
"The Mumbling Marauder" should be his name.
"The Mumbling Marauder" should be his name.
Needs to work on his drive and dishing game if he ever wants to surpass being a scorer. Sometimes he isn't aware of how many people are collapsing on him and he tries a shot that is unnecessarily difficult when he could just kick it out.
Bawse Dawg
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Why dish when you score every time you drive?
GVC
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Who hates on Burks? I can't think of a single poster on Jazzfanz who fits this description.
On topic: Burks has been impressive this year. One thing that isn't often mentioned is his improved spot-up game. Per NBA.com's player tracking data, he has an eFG% of .618 in catch and shoot opportunities (.453 3FG%), which is second on the team behind Diante (who's also starting to look like a passable backup 1). Synergy Sports has him at 1.06 Points per possession on spot ups (.458 3FG%). Pretty impressive numbers. I suspect his overall 3FG% is as low as it, at least in part, because he shoots a lot of last second deep 3s (Synergy Sports has him shooting and missing 14 3s listed under "All Other Plays"). If he were used as an off-ball player more, hanging out in the corner, he could conceivably get his 3FG% up in the 37-40% range (or higher?). Dude's a keeper; hopefully the Jazz can lock him up this summer.
With all that said, I still don't mind him coming off the bench for now with the Jazz roster as it is. Just need to bring him in a bit earlier in the 1st and 3rd (6-7 minute mark), which would allow him to get a 2 minute rest later on and still play 32+ minutes per game.
candrew
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I don't know about the best eva but he is the only core player that hasn't been wildly inconsistent and has shown improvement every season - all while getting the least amount of regard from the coaching staff.