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Does Dennis Lindsey get canned if this season is botched?

fishonjazz said:
No you are wrong. He broke his leg. One time. That's the only injury that took him out of a game. It's not a reoccurring injury.

This isn't derrick rose, greg oden, or brandon roy where they keep re-injuring themselves.

He could end up like that in the future if he keeps getting injuries but so far he got hurt one time that forced him to leave a game and miss significant time.

His shoulder didn't force him to miss time. He could have kept playing but management, his agent, and himself decided to get surgery because they thought it might need surgery eventually and they decided to get it out of the way. His shoulder has been fine ever since.

Again, 2 un-related injuries (One of them not even really an injury) in 7 years does not = injury prone.

And again, he has not played very many minutes in his nba career, therefore he doesn't have a lot of mileage on his body. And he is young.

I don't think you understand what mileage on an nba body means. See a guy like lebron that has been in the league for many years, always has played tons of minutes, has played in tons of playoff games, and played many games for the national team has lots of mileage.

A guy like burks who has not been in the league very long, sat on the bench during a lot of his young career, and doesn't ever play in the playoffs or for any international competition has low mileage.

I hope that helps you understand.
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This. Burks suffered an acute injury as a result of a hard (possible cheap shot) foul. Its frustrating for us and its frustrating for him. Fishonjazz is right to point out the silver lining: he is still young and has low mileage. Another positive is that since he's missed so many games he may be cheaper to retain when the time comes. It is for fans of other teams to call Burks injury prone. They look at his games missed to injury and arrive at the simplest explanation. I would hope that Jazz fans would have a more nuanced understanding of Burks career thus far. We've invested in this guy and supported him for a reason. He still has 6th man of the year potential.
 
Diehard Casual said:
This. Burks suffered an acute injury as a result of a hard (possible cheap shot) foul. Its frustrating for us and its frustrating for him. Fishonjazz is right to point out the silver lining: he is still young and has low mileage. Another positive is that since he's missed so many games he may be cheaper to retain when the time comes. It is for fans of other teams to call Burks injury prone. They look at his games missed to injury and arrive at the simplest explanation. I would hope that Jazz fans would have a more nuanced understanding of Burks career thus far. We've invested in this guy and supported him for a reason. He still has 6th man of the year potential.
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The other thing with Burks is that he's improved his 3pt shooting the past three years - last year at 40%. With his slashing ability and ability to get FTs, on top of being a good 3pt threat, that's can be a valuable piece.
 
Dennis Libdsey is not getting fired. He might get lured away by another team where the fans are not so enigmatic, but if he wants it, he is a Jazz lifer.
 
fishonjazz said:
In college Burks had zero injuries (that's 2 years)
His first three years in the nba he had no injuries (that's three more years)

Then the last two years he had two injuries. And they were both un-related. (One he chose to have shoulder surgery.... He didn't even have to. Could have kept playing but wanted to get it done and over with. The next injury was a broken leg in a fluke-ish type play.)

So in 7 years he has 2 injuries and now he is greg oden?

Also, burks doesn't drive as much as he did early on... He is used a lot more as a spot up corner three point shooter now since his shot has improved.... Attacking is still a huge part of his game, as it should be, but he does less often under quin than he did under corbin.

Lolok
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this, the last couple years he's been very unlucky. He could be a real valuable piece if he shoots the 3 a little more as well as his attacking flair. Burks still has a tonne of potential.
 
JazzyFresh said:
Didn't Burks miss nearly half of the last 2 seasons. One a shoulder the other a knee?
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Yep, two injuries in his last 7 years of college and nba ball. One if them was an actual injury that made him leave the game when paul pierce fouled him and he was WAY up in the air and he landed awkwardly and broke his leg.

The other was he and the team decided to get surgery on his shoulder during a mostly wasted season up until that point.
 
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