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Bold Prediction: Alec Burks WILL have a huge breakout year.

Hack said:
The whole thing was wrong and stupidly built. Al Jefferson shouldn't have been our offensive focus. He should have been traded shortly after he arrived, or never traded for at all..

So it made zero sense to stall the growth of Burks in favor of banging our head against the wall continuing to try out the Al Jefferson experiment.
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And that's your opinion-- but as long as we had Al Jefferson, Burks had no business being in the starting lineup. It's the way the cookie crumbles

And I'm of the opinion Burks was very good right from the start. He didn't just start being able to play. If he would have been given a real opportunity to settle in and get a lot of play time, he would have found some rhythm. Al Burks had to play with a different set of rules than Al Jefferson. Burks messes up on D one time and he is benched for the rest of the game. Al continually messes up on D and he is never benched. That is a bad message to send to your players and can only serve to screw with the psyche of a player like Burks. Burks is a much better shooter than he is made out to be. Burks had to play with constant pressure from the threat of being benched if he misses a shot. In short, he was over scrutinized and was handled wrong. Not a great way to develop one of your best talents.
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Burks has clearly improved from his first year (we can agree to disagree here-- at worst we can say he hasn't regressed like Kanter) so clearly all of Ty's tactics didn't completely **** him up.

We can agree to disagree tho.
 
dalamon said:
To those who think that Burks was ready to start from day one, they are wrong.
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I always thought the team in the present and the future would have been better off playing Burks over raja, cj, and josh howard. From day one. Especially since raja and howard were not even nba caliber players anymore.
I had no problem with corbin playing foye over Burks since foye was a good player and fit with that starting lineup..... still don't think Burks should have received ANY dnp's that year and should have played more.

Last year's staying lineup was trey (a mostly outside shooter who was limited offensively due to age), gordon (mostly an outside shooter who is better off not being the focus of the offense), jefferson (mostly an outside shooter who is better off the ball) Marvin (mostly an outside shooter who is better off the ball), and favors (poor offensively)
Seems to me that lineup really needed a guy like Burks and probably would have helped the offense and the rest of the starters as a whole.
dalamon said:
To those who think that Burks didn't improve under Ty Corbin's coaching, they are completely wrong.
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Obviously Burks improved while ty was the coach but not because of ty imo.
He improved because he was playing with and against nba talent in games and practice, he was training and working on his game in the off season, he was growing mentally and physically, etc etc.

I think ty slowed his (and others) rate of improvement.
 
And I agree with dalamon that he was always in the middle of the Burks discussion. (Probably appropriate)
 
Burks from day 1 > Roger Braille, Chucky Jay Miles, whatever other ****-tastic players Corbin played over him that year

2nd year Burks > Foye

3rd year Burks > Richtard Jefferson

As far as Burks vs Foye goes, Dal's insistence that Burks and Al couldn't co-exist is way over exaggerated, and more importantly, isn't even relevant. All that mattered was the future of the Jazz. Burks was a part of that future, Foye was not. End of story. Now, I don't put all the "Foye playing over Burks" blame on Ty, KOC deserves a lot of flack for even signing him in the first place.

tl;dr

All hale Burks, bishes.
 
Last game our starting back court combined for 42 points.

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Remember those times when our starting back court combined for a grand total of 0 points?

#WashedUpVets4Life
 
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