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Burks fully committed to the Jazz and getting better

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He has some catching up to do. It really is too bad he was hurt this season. The whole team has grown so much since the beginning of the year.

It will take time, but I have full confidence he will figure out his role. I'm really excited to see him play loose and be more aggressive on defense with the Block Bros behind him. He has a great nack for playing passing lanes. Now he can go for it without worrying about overplaying.

Plus, dat jumper is wet as ****. Damn.
 
Burks went down just as the team was establishing a defensive identity. There is no reason to believe he won't be successful on both ends of the court in QS's system.
 
I love Burks but this team has an identity now. Core guys Hayward, Favors, Gobert are all good defenders, willing passers with high bball IQs. Gotta add compatible missing pieces. Believe it or not, Exum fits already even with his hideous offense now. Burks does not.
 
jjscap said:
I love Burks but this team has an identity now. Core guys Hayward, Favors, Gobert are all good defenders, willing passers with high bball IQs. Gotta add compatible missing pieces. Believe it or not, Exum fits already even with his hideous offense now. Burks does not.
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Sure, but right now we are relying on Burke or one of the d leaguers to score in order to win. Burke may be that guy, but my money is on Alec to provide consistent scoring whether starting or off the bench.
 
Jazz don't nearly have enough offensive talent in their starting unit (or team for that matter) to get to the next level. Burks return and the addition of another talented wing player and PF are essential.

We all have affection for Ingles and Booker; but these guys are cult hero's. They're not major pieces on playoff winning teams.
 
candrew said:
Jazz don't nearly having enough offensive talent power in their starting unit (or team for that matter) to get to the next level. Burks return and the addition of another talented wing player and PF are essential.

We all have affection for Ingles and Booker; but these guys are cult hero's. They're not major pieces on playoff winning teams.
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Gobert/Evans
Favors/Booker
Hayward/Hood/Ingles
Middleton(Matthews)/Burks/Millsap
Exum/Burke

Plus a draft pick is 13 players. Add a 3rd string PG and a final big and that's 15. And a low playoff seed. 6-8 imo.
 
Evans is your backup center?
He won't be on the team next season. It will be Pleiss, Tomic or a FA.

Also, to get Matthews or Middleton, we'd almost certainly have to renounce the option on Booker's contract AND our exceptions. Trevor would likely need to return for $2.5M or less (room MLE).
 
I think of a starting-5 of Exum, Matthews, Hayward, Favors & Gobert and I get stoked. That would be a very solid defense.
 
Stoked said:
Good to hear that he is as actively involved as he can be. Also good to see him occasionaly behind the bench during games.

So crazy to think that the Jazz are improving this much and that Burks has been MIA.
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I just hope this does not turn out to be the Memphis Grizzly situation of a few years ago when they were really good without Gay and people expected Gay to put them over the top but when he came back from injury, Gay just didn't fit
 
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