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Exum Update

Mack sucked, and there isn't any proper justification as to why he played while Exum didn't. Mitchell bordered on bad his first few games and yet the leash was long. So it should have been with Burks and Exum. But then, I thought Exum played too much his rookie year when he was clearly too scared (hesitant) to do anything offensively other than jack up threes. Exum had partially outgrown this by the time Mack was here and was inexplicably playing ahead of him.
 
MilesDeep said:
Mack sucked, and there isn't any proper justification as to why he played while Exum didn't. Mitchell bordered on bad his first few games and yet the leash was long. So it should have been with Burks and Exum. But then, I thought Exum played too much his rookie year when he was clearly too scared (hesitant) to do anything offensively other than jack up threes. Exum had partially outgrown this by the time Mack was here and was inexplicably playing ahead of him.
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Revisionist history. Anyone who remembers his play last year, just using the eye test, knows Mack was more respected as a shooter and playmaker than Exum by every defense. Neither were acceptable options, and I can’t fault Quin for picking the player people actually guarded.


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Revisionist history. Anyone who remembers his play last year, just using the eye test, knows Mack was more respected as a shooter and playmaker than Exum by every defense. Neither were acceptable options, and I can’t fault Quin for picking the player people actually guarded.
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This is BS ...in the biggest game of his career against GS Exum showed what he could do and Jazz were excited for him to play this year. As far as Mack is concerned he's at the end of the bench on the Magic team ,that tells you how valued Mack is.
 
BabyPeterzz said:
Lol, the Mack/Exum situation occurred because Exum couldn’t shoot or create, at all. Mack could, inconsistently, but could shoot 3’s and spread the floor. SPREAD THE FLOOR. We’re seeing first hand how important spacing is in Quin’s offense and how it contributed to our success last season. With a team that still struggled to score at times, with a playoff birth on the line, you pick the player that makes your offense better. You have Rudy Gobert to anchor the defense, and Exum’s scoring weaknesses clearly outweighed his defensive strengths. Exum underperformed when minutes we’re crucial. Quin made the right, very unfortunate call. Not Corbinesque. At all.


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Mack shot 30% from 3 last year. Not any better than Exum (percentage points I think but whatever). He made the offense worse because he shot more than he should instead of letting better players take more shots. It's like basketball 101. All this has been rehashed time and again. You can believe whatever you want but Exum was at a huge disadvantage early on as he was still recovering from injury. If you take out that rough early stretch Exum was even better than Mack the second half of the season and should have had all those minutes. Exum was clearly the better player by January. Teams wanted Mack shooting the ball as much as possible unless it was that one night in 7 where he was hitting some shots.

Exum performed just fine but was often kneecapped by not being allowed to make mistakes and play through them. I can't count how many times he made a couple first half mistakes and didn't get back in the game that night. It was just a bad coaching job and was definitely Corbinesque. Where I do agree with you is that Quin thought he was trying to maximize wins in order to convince Hayward to stick around. I simply think he made a mistake by not taking growth into account, and using the wrong kind of motivation for a guy like Exum.

Edit: And also for not just playing the better player with more upside the second half of the year. Quin is a good coach but he has some quirks with playing players he is comfortable with over players that actually help the team win more (even if the difference is small) and he definitely has had a couple pet players.
 
Currently the Orlando Magic have worst record in the NBA and who's buried at the end of the bench BUT Shane Mack ....did he just get bad all of a sudden this year OR being one of Snyder's pet players get him minutes over Exum ?
 
If I were Dante I would say "###k the jazz " and go to sign
for another team. Dante would not want to have plenty of DNP~CD next to his name next season under Snyder's stupid coaching. Unless he wants more tortures from snyder, Dante should look for another team. If utah is going to match any offer by another team trying to sign Dante, Dante should just ask for a trade.
 
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