Chad Ford chat re: Jazz

[Park Bites]

Great post glasseater my feelings exactly. The biggest question is can millsap play the 3 if so it is fine. If Uris starts playing well take min or trade miles

 

[LogGrad98]

I agree with Brown on all his points. As for "tanking," I don't think anyone would disagree with this clarification. And I don't think it would be "tanking" to give Hayward and Favors a ton of minutes. That was going to happen regardless. Bell showed nothing, so give his minutes to Burks. Alec will likely beat him out in training camp. If I were Greg, I'd just buy Raja out. There are enough guys at SG. Okur's PT would likely be limited (probably no back-to-backs) so that's probably less of an issue. What it likely comes down to is: 1) Can Sap play major mins at SF? If so, the supposed logjam at the 4 is mostly resolved; and 2) is Kanter ready for major minutes? I just don't see it. Favors was a much better prospect, IMO, but for Sepanol's sake let's say Favors = Kanter. Both drafted #3 and both pretty raw (although Favors did have one year of college). Favors averaged less than 20 mins/per. And he was getting more PT with Utah late than he did with NJ earlier in the season. So maybe count on Kanter getting 15 early on, increasing if he shows he's ready.

C: Jefferson 35, Memo 13
PF: Favors: 35, Kanter 13
SF: Millsap: 30, Hayward 18
SG: Hayward 12, CJ 20, Burks 16
PG: Harris 33, Watson 15

Now that's assuming everyone is healthy and everyone plays all games, which never happens. It's likely Memo only plays in 2/3 of the games. A couple of players will get hurt and miss games. And I'm not worried about semantics. Call Kanter a 5 and Memo a 4 and switch them behind Jefferson and Favors. Call CJ a SF and give him the minutes behind Millsap instead of Hayward. Move minutes up and down a bit. Whatever.

Point is, I just don't see a huge problem this season (if there is one).

Cj with more minutes than Burks and Hayward is pretty much an automatic fail. His day has come and gone. He should get 10-12 min tops garbage time behind SG/SF as the time is available. That's it.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Cj with more minutes than Burks and Hayward is pretty much an automatic fail. His day has come and gone. He should get 10-12 min tops garbage time behind SG/SF as the time is available. That's it.

Hayward is getting 30 minutes to CJ's 20 in this proposed rotation. Burks is a rookie and he is going to get less time than CJ (at least at first), accept it.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Hayward is getting 30 minutes to CJ's 20 in this proposed rotation. Burks is a rookie and he is going to get less time than CJ (at least at first), accept it.

Exactly. Also CJ has an expiring contract so IF there is a season, Millsap shows he can play SF and Burks looks like the real deal, Miles could very well be traded for a draft pick at the deadline. As Xthren said, Millsap is really the wild card in this. I see no reason he shouldn't be able to play SF. At one point, Sloan said Paul could guard three positions. Millsap has a great mid-range jumper and we've already seen him hit quite a few 3's. In two years we could see a big man rotation of Favors, Jefferson and Kanter and Millsap, Hayward and Burks at the wing positions. That's all you need - 3 players to split 2 positions, as each can get 30+ mins. Add in Harris and a backup PG and there's a solid core 8.

Personally, I see Burks in a Maggette type role. He'd be perfect off the bench. Hopefully Kanter is ready for major minutes by Year #2. If not, possibly bring back Memo for another year to continue in a mentor role and split the backup minutes with Enes. And use the draft picks to get a good young PG to eventually replace Harris.