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Does Burks deserve to be a starter yet?

LunaticWolf said:
With Hayward playing as inefficiently as he is right now, might be a good idea to move Alec to the start to try and relieve some of the burden on Gordon. Plus, Alec plays a lot better with Trey next to him.

Our bench would be dead in the water if we did that though.
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18/6/6 on 45% shooting is inefficient?

Those are his last 10 games btw. If you'd like to go further back, he's shooting 44.6% for the months of December and January. I'd hardly consider that inefficient.
 
I've been on the Alec Burks should start bandwagon for years now, but it's not even the starting that matters much, it's the minutes. The problem with not starting is that he misses 6-10 minutes of PT at the beginning of each half. Even if he plays the rest of the game (which he never does - he'll get pulled for the last half or so of the second quarter and sometimes the 4th) that means the most he can play is about 32 minutes. He's only averaging 27 minutes per - that is the problem. He played 38 tonight, partly because he started - he didn't miss those 6-10 minutes right off the bat. If Corbin would commit to bringing Burks in at the six minute mark of the 1st and 3rd and then let him play the rest of each half, that would be okay too. But the 27 minutes seems to be a problem.
 
LunaticWolf said:
Our bench would be dead in the water if we did that though.
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But a bench of kanter, Jefferson, evans, garrett and a starter along with them wouldn't be so bad
 
fallenchicken said:
He's been playing a lot of minutes. Should he start? Yes. Does the coaching staff feel they need a scorer off the bench? They seem to. I don't know if that's right or wrong; but he's getting his time.
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I explain it above, but he really isn't getting his time - or at least the time he should be getting. 27 minutes on the season and even just 28 in January.
 
The list of players that have gotten the nod over alec at one point or another is laughable..... Josh howard, raja bell, cj miles, randy foye, Richard Jefferson, and to a lesser extent Jamaal tinsley and earl Watson.

Pretty crappy list.

Some people have always said that the team would be worse if alec starts and that alec would be worse in a starting role... it was always a safe thing for those people to say since alec never got to start.
If Hayward misses any significant amount of time then those folks will probably look like fools
 
I think you have to make Burks a starter, move Hayward to the 3, and let Jefferson be the "star" of the second unit. Who cares if RJ's feelings are hurt, what is he going to do?...leave us for another team at the end of the season?
 
fallenchicken said:
He's been playing a lot of minutes. Should he start? Yes. Does the coaching staff feel they need a scorer off the bench? They seem to. I don't know if that's right or wrong; but he's getting his time.
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27 minutes per game aint bad (less than Jefferson though), but he should be up above 30 per game......... and the last 2 years he should have been getting 25 per game......but hey if ya have randy foye, josh howard, raja bell, or Richard Jefferson, then you have to play em
 
akirac73 said:
I think you have to make Burks a starter, move Hayward to the 3, and let Jefferson be the "star" of the second unit. Who cares if RJ's feelings are hurt, what is he going to do?...leave us for another team at the end of the season?
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Yep. You play Burks 35 and Hayward 35 minutes a game and give all the remaining minutes to Dick, he would still get 26 minutes a game. That would be the right thing to do.
 
To be honest, I'm still not sure why he isn't starting. Maybe Corbin feels if he starts that there might not be much scoring from the bench. Either way I think he's too good to be a bench player.


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But but but..... manu comes off da bench doe
 
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