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Gamethread: Jazz v Lakers. 7pm MST.

jope said:
This excuse has to stop, there have been 92 other rookies 19 or younger, and Dante ranks very near the bottom of almost every statistical category among them.

Hell, a 19 yr old rookie Kanter who had barely played basketball had a 15 PER, avg 15 & 7 per36. --> for reference, Dante's PER is 6.6..


everyone talks about rookie-Kobe starting slow, but he still was at 17½, 4 & 3 per36.



We cant keep feeding him excuses, we need to expect bigger from him. We have too much invested in him not to.
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It is mostly different though. Hope you can see that. Dante has not faced the competition most 16 year old AAU kids have faced up until this season.
 
Eenie-Meenie said:
I think the problem was Trey was playing his usual one-on-one and the Lakers started playing a match-up zone, and with Trey dribbling the ball instead of moving it around they weren't able to get good shots.

Yeah, Quin was royally pissed. You could see it in his wild expressions when the TV camera flashed to the bench.
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Did you hear him shout something like "Trey - when you go in the middle - PASS OUT!!" ???
 
Fishsticks said:
It is mostly different though. Hope you can see that. Dante has not faced the competition most 16 year old AAU kids have faced up until this season.
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Yet Kanter did? Exum isn't performing or showing flashes of brilliance. Couldn't say the same about hayward, favors, gobert, or even burks
 
I got to wAtch a few minutes in the first half! then came back to see the results.

I'm not suprised by the loss, the first quarter the jazz let them stick around . They should have stomped them.

I remember Locke saying the jazz really liked clarkson, and might have taken him 23 if the Magic would have passed on Gordon to take Smart or Exum. He looked good tonight.

Hayward had 1 rebound and 6 turnovers. Is he ill? Or did the Lakers just rough him up?
 
Fishsticks said:
It is mostly different though. Hope you can see that. Dante has not faced the competition most 16 year old AAU kids have faced up until this season.
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I don't get why people don't understand this. Exum has basically gone from a really, really good junior high league to the NBA.

It's normal for him to be shell shocked. He is doing fine. Like DL said, he is a placeholder this year. The fact that he can hit an NBA three and make good passes is incredible.

Jabari was up for runaway rookie of the year...scoring like 12 pts a game. And Exum is a lot further behind development wise.

Before you bag on Exum, remember what he did to Parker and how he looked in that first quarter.
 
I was there.

Jazz clearly read their headlines. No one other than Millsap and Gobert bothered to show up.

Boozer and Hill kicked our asses. Burke is a poor man's JR Smith. He can either shoot you into a game or out of one. G, Exum, Favors, and Jingles looked hungover. Especially Jingles.

Just one game
 
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