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Cotton Making Life Difficult for Trey Burke

One big area that Cotton has over Burke is speed.

Cotton can get to where he wants to be easier than Burke. He pushes the ball faster than Burke and with this young athletic team the Jazz have they can start using their legs.
 
GVC said:
He's also playing against a bunch of scrubs.
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That's actually what I meant to say. Bottom line, the case to be made for Cotton - and it's an optimistic one at that - is that he's basically a Trey Burke clone, but you get that clone for cheaper price. He's a short, scoring, shoot first, PG who doesn't shoot it very efficiently. Even at that, again, it's an optimistic view if he can't do better in summer league than Burke does in real NBA games.
 
Stoked said:
One big area that Cotton has over Burke is speed.Cotton can get to where he wants to be easier than Burke. He pushes the ball faster than Burke and with this young athletic team the Jazz have they can start using their legs.
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That is true, but if you can't translate that into finishing or making plays for teammates, you might as well sign up Usain Bolt. There are a lot of ridiculously fast and quick PGs out there who aren't NBA players.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
That is true, but if you can't translate that into finishing or making plays for teammates, you might as well sign up Usain Bolt. There are a lot of ridiculously fast and quick PGs out there who aren't NBA players.
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True but if he shoots and passes roughly the same as Burke but is an upgrade in speed then why not?
 
seattlejazzfan said:
That's actually what I meant to say.
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Yeah, I realized I misread your post, and was just about to delete my reply.

People love Cotton because he had a couple good games to end last season (recency bias) and because he's not Trey (reaction to reminder of latent homosexuality after viewing dick pics).
 
seattlejazzfan said:
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is you get him for cheaper and his speed and overall athleticism probably gives him more upside.
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That's what I am thinking. That and how palyers like Favors, Burks and Gobert will benefit from increased pace by having a PG that pushes the tempo with his speed.

If I was Snyder I'd drill Cotton into the ground on that.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
That's actually what I meant to say. Bottom line, the case to be made for Cotton - and it's an optimistic one at that - is that he's basically a Trey Burke clone, but you get that clone for cheaper price. He's a short, scoring, shoot first, PG who doesn't shoot it very efficiently. Even at that, again, it's an optimistic view if he can't do better in summer league than Burke does in real NBA games.
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I lol'ed. I know everyone is entitled to an opinion, but when that opinion is 100% wrong... well you shouldn't have it. Cotton literally looks to pass first every time he touches it. Only reason he is shooting more right now is because its summer league.
 
GoFriars said:
I lol'ed. I know everyone is entitled to an opinion, but when that opinion is 100% wrong... well you shouldn't have it. Cotton literally looks to pass first every time he touches it. Only reason he is shooting more right now is because its summer league.
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Agree. He sure didn't look like a shoot first PG after the Jazz signed him last season. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I recall a player pushing the pace and getting the ball to his teammates, unlike Burke.
 
GoFriars said:
I lol'ed. I know everyone is entitled to an opinion, but when that opinion is 100% wrong... well you shouldn't have it. Cotton literally looks to pass first every time he touches it. Only reason he is shooting more right now is because its summer league.
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Summer league and Providence. 22 ppg, but looks to pass first every time. Lol. That's cute.
 
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