Corbin and co are seriously risking the future of the team

[orangello]

WTF are you talking about? There is more to basketball than shooting 3s. Hayward has been the Jazz' best defender. He's a great distributor and he makes everyone around him better. He's been driving aggressively to the rim, and fighting for every rebound. Howard on the other hand is atrocious. He had a good 4 game stretch before he got injured. But that's it. I think he hustles after loose balls and occasionally plays tough defense. But he plays with CJ. Watching him and CJ fighting over who gets to chuck the ball in the general direction of the basket is hilarious.

You forgot to mention that Howard in the open floor is cringe worthy. I can think of a few times that he fumbles with the ball and fails to score when he only can be beat by himself.

 

[InGameStrategy]

That would make sense if we were in tanking mode. Burks can't play team ball against 2nd units. I don't see how the team is going to benefit from moving him into starter's role.

Who said anything about making Burks a starter?

It's not really a radical concept to put a mixed lineup of starters and backups on the floor (after the starters start). But Corbin is making the same mistake as his predecessor, often having a wave of backups playing separately from the starters.

Much more effective would be to layer in the backups instead of playing them all together (and instead of sometimes even subbing them in en masse). Burks is a key example of this; he'd be more effective playing alongside Hayward or even Bell than the iffy defense (and iffy shot selection) of Catch 'n Jack. Same goes for the young bigs; better alongside a starting scorer (AJ or PM) than alongside each other, thus bringing the frontcourt scoring to a standstill in many cases.

Playing Burks at the same time as Millsap or Jefferson would also mitigate the catch-and-chuck factor, given that the first choice would likely be to get it down to the scoring big rather than for Burks to hoist it up (or for Burks to fight over that privilege with CJ).

 

[Surely]

Who said anything about making Burks a starter?

It's not really a radical concept to put a mixed lineup of starters and backups on the floor (after the starters start). But Corbin is making the same mistake as his predecessor, often having a wave of backups playing separately from the starters.

I agree with that. To me it seems like Jerry sat down with Brigham Young right after the saints arrived and made his game plan. Starting point guard plays the first 8-9 minutes then sits the next 10... There was never the "Hey this guy is on fire, maybe I should leave him in there" idea or the "I can create some mismatches if I shake up my lineup". Unfortunately Corbin seems to have copied Ole Jerry's substitution patterns.