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AK's resurgence

Marty McFly

Marty McFly

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The evidence is getting stronger with every game in the post-D-Will era that AK and D-Will could not or would not coexist. Who knows what happened. But AK is looking 2004ish on offense again. Especially against Detroit - he was just everywhere. He and Devin seem to have excellent chemistry.
 
There's some truth to your post. We'll have to see if he continues to improve and they continue to work well together..
 
I've noticed a change as well. I'm curious to know why he wasn't playing this way with Deron. I can't tell if it was just conflicting skill sets or if it was just simply mental. If he does continue this type of play it could potentially offset the loss of Deron. The trade in theory could be a new AK plus Devin and Favors for Deron. With that said, AK is injury prone and mentally unstable, so as usual you have be cautiously optimistic with him.
 
Deron's method of offense really doesn't rely on ball movement between more than 2 players. Deron was a facilitator, and now that we don't really have that, it makes more pings throughout a play and that's when AK succeeds.

Part of it also has to be mental. There's no reason for AK to be a much worse defender than he was around 03-04. Athletically he seems about the same as before, but defense often comes down to effort and mentality than physical ability.
 
I was also thinking the same thing. If AK is willing to re-sign with us for CHEAP (like one-fifth of what he's making now)...the Jazz need to keep him.
 
I believe we are helping (as in double-teaming) more defensively under Ty Corbin, which is AK's strong suit. Offensively we are slashing to the basket more too. Whether that's because Deron is gone or Jerry is gone, I don't know... Again, that's AK's game on offense.
BTW, that appears to be Hayward's strength offensively; he needs more minutes, dang it!!!
 
NotDeadYet said:
I believe we are helping (as in double-teaming) more defensively under Ty Corbin, which is AK's strong suit. Offensively we are slashing to the basket more too. Whether that's because Deron is gone or Jerry is gone, I don't know... Again, that's AK's game on offense.
BTW, that appears to be Hayward's strength offensively; he needs more minutes, dang it!!!
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But Price plays real hard.
 
He has had what, a couple of good games in a row? AK always has a stretch of every season where everyone is like "Oh, here is the old AK" then about 2 weeks later its "Oh, here is brittle AK again who cant hit jump shots".
 
If AK was great in 2004 and Deron was drafted in 2005 and not let loose by Sloan until around the second half of 2005-06, why was not the greatness of AK revealed between 2004 through early 2006 when Deron wasn't in a position to ruin AK's beautiful game?

Contract year not figuring into all this, is it?
 
I agree with the previous two posters.

If AK does something special that helps this team get to the second round of the playoffs then we can talk about "resurgence". Until then, he remains the overpaid role player whose contract killed the franchise's hopes of contending for a championship the past decade and ultimately cost the city a HOF coach and an all star.
 
I've been promoting AK's good play this season for a while now. He single handedly brought the Jazz back into contention in several games. Maybe it's the contract year. Either way, his skill set is better utilized without a dominant pg and he'll be a bigger part of the offense this season.

The question I can't get passed is why was AK "I quit" room with KOC and Sloan?
 
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